CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

  Programme subject to change.


  Monday 20th June 2022

Session 1: My approach to...
Chairs: Timothy Matthews, Pedro Fonseca


09:00Acute optic neuropathies
Ruchika Batra
09:30My Approach to Optic Disc Swelling 
Grant Liu
10:00Unequal pupils
Fion Bremner
10:30Q&A
10:45Refreshments and Posters

Session 2: My approach to...
Chairs: Ruchika Batra, Hana Leiba


11:15Nystagmus
James Benzimra
11:45Double vision
Prem Subramanian
12:15Unexplained visual loss
Ben Burton
12:45Q&A
13:00Lunch and Posters

Session 3: Investigations
Chairs: Susan Mollan, Koni Webber


14:00Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Neuro-Ophthalmology 
Jonathan Micieli
14:30OCT
Richard Blanch
15:00EDTs
Aki Liasis
15:00Q&A
15:45Refreshments and Posters

Session 4: Cases
Chairs: Michael Burdon, Hadas Stiebel-Kalish


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"Another Case of..."
Peter Quiros
17:40Q&A
18:00Close of day 1

  Tuesday 21st June 2022

President's Session
Chairs: Fion Bremner, Tim Matthews, Mike Burdon


09:00Welcome to EUNOS 2022
Fion Bremer
09:05Overview of the COVID-19 pandemic
Emma Wall
09:20Ophthalmic manifestations of COVID-19/vaccination
Carlos Pavesio
09:35Neurological manifestations of COVID-19/vaccination
Hadi Manji
09:50Optic neuritis following COVID-19/vaccination
Axel Petzold
10:05Haematological manifestations of COVID-19/vaccination
Marie Scully
10:20Discussion
10:45Close of day 1

Symposium: Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension
Chairs: Steffen Hamann, Clare Fraser, Susan Mollan, Peter Quiros


11:15Piecing the jigsaw together - new insights to IIH pathophysiology
Alex Sinclair
11:40Techniques for non-invasive surrogate measurement of intracranial pressure
Steffen Hamann
12:00How do you tell your patients to lose weight?
Sally Abbott
12:20Why is it important to investigate and manage obstructive sleep apnoea in papilloedema?
Clare Fraser
12:40Future treatment for IIH
Susie Mollan
13:00Lunch and Posters

Free Papers 1
Chairs: Nancy J. Newman, Caroline Froment Tilikete, Dan Mileaos

14:00P01The 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
14:15P02Neuro-ophthalmological characterization of not-opa1 dominant optic atrophy
Giulia Amore
14:30P03IIH Pressure: A randomised controlled, trial of the GLP-1 receptor agonist exenatide in idiopathic intracranial hypertension
James Mitchell
14:45P04IH Pressure Med: A randomised, sequential, trial of the effect on cognition of five drugs commonly used in Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension
Ale Sinclair
15:00P05Utilising optical coherence tomography measures as surrogates for raised intracranial pressure in idiopathic intracranial hypertension
Andreas Yiangou
15:15P06Segregation 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 and Posters

Symposium: Pituitary Multidisciplinary Team
Chairs: Ruchika Batra, Niki Karavitaki, Gordon Plant
MDT panel: John Ayuk, Swarupsinh Chavda, Shazada Ahmed, Ute Pohl, Paul Sanghera

16:00Case 1
Naz Raoof
16:20Hypophysitis; an overview
Gordon Plant
16:45Case 2
Niki Karavitaki
17:05Should pituitary apoplexy be managed surgically? For
Shazada Ahmed
17:15Should pituitary apoplexy be managed surgically? Against
Tim Matthews
17:25Summary
Ruchika Batra
17:30Close of day 2

 Wednesday 22nd June 2022

Free Papers 2
Chairs: Simon Hickman, Aki Kawasaki, Ajay Patil

09:00
Update on Neuro-Ophthalmology Journal
Simon Hickman,
Walter Jay
09:15P07Deep Learning Can Accurately Distinguish Between True Papilledema and Optic Disc Drusen on Retinal Photographs
Dan Milea
09:30P08Opiate and headache prescribing patterns in women with idiopathic intracranial hypertension: a matched controlled retrospective cohort study
Susan Mollan
09:45P09Retinal fractal dimension in dementia: the ALZEYE study.
Siegfried Wagner
10:00P10Association of retinal fractal dimension with incident cardiovascular events in a hospital-attending population in London, United Kingdom
Robert Struyven
10:15P11Increased risk of cerebrovascular disease among patients with non-arteritic anterior ischaemic optic neuropathy- a retrospective nationwide cohort study
Niv Levy
10:30P12Do retinal microvascular changes improve transient ischaemic attack (TIA) risk stratification scores? ABCD2 vs. ABCDEYE in the FOTO-TIA study
Valérie Biousse
10:45
Refreshments and Posters

Debates
Chairs: Andrew Jacks, Grant Liu, Nagini Sarvananthan

11:15Can we treat nystagmus? - For                                                                                                                            
Steve Madill

Can we treat nystagmus? - Against
Prem Subramanian

Summary
Andrew Jacks
12:00Can we treat NA-ION? For
Neil Miller

Can we treat NA-ION? Against
François-Xavier Borruat

Summary
Anthony Arnold
13:00Lunch and Posters

Symposium: Meaningful Research in the COVID Era
Chairs: Lt Col Richard Blanch, Prof Alistair Denniston, Valérie Biousse
Covid Research
14:00Introduction
Alastair Denniston
14:02COVID epidemiology and public health
Nagpal Hoysal
14:22Research Informed Practice – How studies have changed the way we manage COVID - 19
Liz Sapey
14:42Meaningful research in the COVID era
Christopher Green
15:00Closing Remarks
Richard Blanch
Inherited optic Neuropathies 
15:00Future Treatment for Leber’s hereditary optic neuropathy
Patrick Yu Wai Man
15:15Future treatment for other inherited optic neuropathies
Nancy J. Newman
15:30Refreshments and Posters

Symposium: Key Clinical Questions
Chairs: Lidia Alvarez, Deniz Atan, Neil Miller

16:00Should all multiple sclerosis patients have modern disease modifying treatments?         
Martin Duddy
16:20Is transient monocular visual loss a neuro-ophthalmic emergency?
Valerie Boiusse
16:40Should all NMO optic neuritis patients receive second line immunosuppression?
Saiju Jacob
17:00Should we give corticosteroids for traumatic optic neuropathy?
Richard Blanch
17:20Discussion
17:30Close of day 3

Thursday 23rd June

Symposium: Visual Impairment in Neuro-Ophthalmology and approaches for rehabilitation
Chairs: Aki Kawasaki, James Mitchell

09:00Timing of vision screening and assessment in an acute population
Fiona J Rowe
09:15Does reading training in vertical direction improve the hemianopic reading disorder? A randomized and controlled study
Susanne Trauzettel-Klosinski
09:30Quantifying the Speedwheel - a nonverbal acuity test based on suppression of the optokinetic nystagmus
Anja Palmowski-Wolfe
09:45Clinical applications of pupillography in visually impaired patients
Skorkovská Karolína
10:00Visual perceptual learning in youth with infantile nystagmus: feasibility and results of home-based training app
María Begona Coco
10:15Evolution and contribution of e-Health technologies in the clinical processes and rehabilitation of low vision patients related to neurological disorders
María Begona Coco
10:30Discussion
10:45Refreshments and Posters

Symposium: Radiation Treatment in Neuro-Ophthalmology
Chairs: Tim Matthews, Ruth Huna-Baron

11:15Radiotherapy for anterior skull base meningiomas
Paul Sanghera
11:35Proton therapy for Base of skull chordoma and chondrosarcoma – visual function considerations
Gillian Whitfield
11:55MDT discussion of cases
George Tsermoulas, Swarup Chavda, Paul Sanghera, Tim Matthews
12:45Discussion

13:00Prize giving
Time Matthews
13:30Close of conference

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