CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
The conference programme is below. Please note this is subject to change, if you have any queries regarding the programme, please contact the events team.
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| Session 1: My approach to... | |
| Chairs: Timothy Mathews, Laura Bonelli | |
| 08:00 | Registration, Refreshments and Exhibition |
| 09:00 | Acute optic
neuropathies Ruchika Batra |
| 09:30 | Optic
Disc Swelling Grant Liu |
| 10:00 | Unequal pupils Fion Bremner |
| 10:30 | Q&A |
| 10:45 | Refreshments, Posters and Exhibition |
| Session 2: My approach to... | |||
| Chairs: Ruchika Batra, Mitchell Strominger | |||
| 11:15 | Nystagmus James Benzimra | ||
| 11:45 | Double vision Prem Subramanian | ||
| 12:15 | Unexplained visual loss Ben Burton | ||
| 12:45 | Questions | ||
| 13:00 | Lunch, Posters and Exhibition | ||
| Session 3: Investigations | |
| Chairs: Susan Mollan, Koni Webber | |
| 14:00 | Magnetic Resonance
Imaging Jonathan Micieli |
| 14:30 | OCT Richard Blanch |
| 15:00 | EDTs Alki Liasis |
| 15:30 | Q&A |
| 15:45 | Refreshments, Posters and Exhibition |
| Session 4: Cases | |
| Chairs: Michael Burdon, Sui Wong | |
| 16:00 | “A Straightforward
diagnosis at last” Margaret Dayan |
| 16:20 | “The case of the
Black Diamond” Clare Fraser |
| 16:40 | “Hang in There” Dan Milea |
| 17:00 | “Out Back” Aki Kawasaki |
| 17:20 | "Double Trouble" Peter Quiros |
| 17:40 | Q&A |
| 18:00 | Welcome Reception |
| President's Session | |
| Chairs: Fion Bremner, Tim Matthews, Mike Burdon | |
| 08:00 | Registration, Refreshments and Exhibition |
| 09:00 | Welcome to EUNOS 2022 Fion Bremner |
| 09:05 | Overview of the COVID-19 pandemic Emma Wall |
| 09:20 | Ophthalmic manifestations of COVID-19/vaccination Carlos Pavesio |
| 09:35 | Neurological manifestations of COVID-19/vaccination Hadji Manji |
| 09:50 | Optic neuritis following COVID-19/vaccination Axel Petzold |
| 10:05 | Haematological manifestations of COVID-19/vaccination Marie Scully |
| 10:20 | Discussion |
| 10:45 | Refreshments, Posters and Exhibition |
| Symposium: Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension | |
| Chairs: Steffen Hamann, Clare Fraser, Susan Mollan, Peter Quiros | |
| 11:15 | Piecing the jigsaw together - new insights to IIH pathophysiology Alex Sinclair |
| 11:40 | Techniques for non-invasive surrogate measurement of intracranial pressure Steffen Hamann |
| 12:00 | How do you tell your patients to lose weight? Sally Abbott |
| 12:20 | Why is it important to investigate and manage obstructive sleep apnoea in papilloedema? Clare Fraser |
| 12:40 | Future treatment for IIH Susie Mollan |
| 13:00 | Lunch, Posters and Exhibition |
| Free Papers 1 | ||
| Chairs: Nancy J. Newman, Caroline Froment Tilikete, Dan Milea | ||
| 14:00 | P01 | The phase III REFLECT trial: efficacy of bilateral gene therapy for Leber Hereditary Optic Neuropathy (LHON) is maintained 2 years post administration Patrick Yu Wai Man |
| 14:15 | P02 | Neuro-ophthalmological characterization of not-opa1 dominant optic atrophy Giulia Amore |
| 14:30 | P03 | IIH Pressure: A randomised controlled, trial of the GLP-1 receptor agonist exenatide in idiopathic intracranial hypertension James Mitchell |
| 14:45 | P04 | IIH Pressure Med: A randomised, sequential, trial of the effect on cognition of five drugs commonly used in Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension Alex Sinclair |
| 15:00 | P05 | Utilising optical coherence tomography measures as surrogates for raised intracranial pressure in idiopathic intracranial hypertension Andreas Yiangou |
| 15:15 | P06 | Segregation of decussating axons within the core of the primate optic chiasm shown by injection of a different tracer into each eye Jonathan Horton |
| 15:30 | Refreshments, Posters and Exhibition | |
| Symposium: Pituitary Multidisciplinary Team | |
| Chairs: Ruchika Batra, Niki Karavitaki, Gordon Plant MDT panel: John Ayuk, Swarupsinh Chavda, Georgios
Tsermoulas, Ute Pohl, Paul Sanghera | |
| 16:00 | Case 1 Naz Raoof |
| 16:20 | Hypophysitis; an overview Gordon Plant |
| 16:45 | Case 2 Niki Karavitaki |
| 17:05 | Should pituitary apoplexy be managed surgically? For Georgios Tsermoulas |
| 17:15 | Should pituitary apoplexy be managed surgically? Against Tim Matthews |
| 17:25 | Summary Ruchika Batra |
| 17:30 | Reception sponsored by Chiesi |
| Free Papers 2 | ||
| Chairs: Simon Hickman, Aki Kawasaki, Ajay Patil | ||
| 08:00 | Registration, Refreshments and Exhibition | |
| 09:00 | Update on Neuro-Ophthalmology Journal Simon Hickman, Walter Jay | |
| 09:15 | P07 | Deep Learning Can Accurately Distinguish Between True Papilledema and Optic Disc Drusen on Retinal Photographs Dan Milea |
| 09:30 | P08 | Opiate and headache prescribing patterns in women with idiopathic intracranial hypertension: a matched controlled retrospective cohort study Susan Mollan |
| 09:45 | P09 | Retinal fractal dimension in dementia: the ALZEYE study. Siegfried Wagner |
| 10:00 | P10 | Association of retinal fractal dimension with incident cardiovascular events in a hospital-attending population in London, United Kingdom Robert Struyven |
| 10:15 | P11 | Increased risk of cerebrovascular disease among patients with non-arteritic anterior ischaemic optic neuropathy- a retrospective nationwide cohort study Niv Levy |
| 10:30 | P12 | Do retinal microvascular changes improve transient ischaemic attack (TIA) risk stratification scores? ABCD2 vs. ABCDEYE in the FOTO-TIA study Valérie Biousse |
| 10:45 | Refreshments, Posters and Exhibition | |
| Debates | ||
| Chairs: Andrew Jacks & Nagini Sarvananthan | ||
| 11:15 | Can we treat nystagmus? - For Steve Madill | |
| Can we treat nystagmus? - Against Prem Subramanian | ||
| Summary Andrew Jacks | ||
| 12:00 | Can we treat NA-ION? For Neil Miller | |
| Can we treat NA-ION? Against François-Xavier Borruat | ||
| Summary Anthony Arnold | ||
| 13:00 | Lunch, Posters and Exhibition | |
| Symposium: Meaningful Research in the COVID Era | |||
| Chairs: Richard Blanch, Alistair Denniston, Valérie Biousse | |||
| Covid Research | |||
| 14:00 | Introduction Alastair Denniston | ||
| 14:02 | COVID epidemiology and public health Nagpal Hoysal | ||
| 14:22 | Research Informed Practice – How studies have changed the way we manage COVID - 19 Liz Sapey | ||
| 14:42 | Development of COVID vaccinations Christopher Green | ||
| 15:00 | Closing Remarks Richard Blanch | ||
| Inherited optic Neuropathies | |||
| 15:00 | Future Treatment for Leber’s hereditary optic neuropathy Patrick Yu Wai Man | ||
| 15:15 | Future treatment for other inherited optic neuropathies Nancy J. Newman | ||
| 15:30 | Refreshments, Posters and Exhibition | ||
| Symposium: Key Clinical Questions | ||||
| Chairs: Lidia Alvarez, Deniz Atan, Neil Miller | ||||
| Covid Research | ||||
| 16:00 | Should all multiple sclerosis patients have modern disease modifying treatments? Martin Duddy | |||
| 16:20 | Is transient monocular visual loss a neuro-ophthalmic emergency? Valerie Boiusse | |||
| 16:40 | Should all NMO optic neuritis patients receive second line immunosuppression? Saiju Jacob | |||
| 17:00 | Should we give corticosteroids for traumatic optic neuropathy? Richard Blanch | |||
| 17:20 | Discussion | |||
| 17:30 | Close of day 3 | |||
| 19:00 | Conference Dinner, Birmingham Botanical Gardens | |||
Symposium: Visual Impairment in Neuro-Ophthalmology and approaches for rehabilitation | |
| Chairs: Aki Kawasaki, James Mitchell | |
| 08:00 | Registration, Refreshments and Exhibition |
| 09:00 | Timing of vision screening and assessment in an acute stroke population Fiona J Rowe |
| 09:15 | Does reading training in vertical direction improve the hemianopic reading disorder? A randomized and controlled study Susanne Trauzettel-Klosinski |
| 09:30 | Quantifying the Speedwheel - a nonverbal acuity test based on suppression of the optokinetic nystagmus Anja Palmowski-Wolfe |
| 09:45 | Clinical applications of pupillography in visually impaired patients Skorkovská Karolína |
| 10:00 | Visual perceptual learning in youth with infantile nystagmus: feasibility and results of home-based training app Bianca Huurneman |
| 10:15 | Evolution and contribution of e-Health technologies in the clinical processes and rehabilitation of low vision patients related to neurological disorders María Begona Coco |
| 10:30 | Discussion |
| 10:45 | Refreshments and Posters |
Symposium: Radiation Treatment in Neuro-Ophthalmology | |
| Chairs: Tim Matthews, Ruth Huna-Baron | |
| 11:15 | Radiotherapy for anterior skull base meningiomas Paul Sanghera |
| 11:35 | Proton therapy for Base of skull chordoma and chondrosarcoma – visual function considerations Gillian Whitfield |
| 11:55 | MDT discussion of cases George Tsermoulas, Swarup Chavda, Paul Sanghera, Tim Matthews |
| 12:45 | Discussion |
| 13:00 | Prize giving Tim Matthews |
| 13:30 | Close of conference |
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