UPDATE COURSE: Wednesday 29th May 2024
Venue: County Hall, Etc Venues 4th Floor, Belvedere Road, London SE1 7PB
Registration badge pick-up 10:00hrs
Update Course 10.30hrs – 17:30hrs
“The Wet and the Dry”
6 CPD POINTS from General Optical Council (GOC) and 6 CPD Credits from the Royal College of Ophthalmologists.
Pre-registration is essential. The course is subscribed to apart from the Scientific Meeting 30th to 31st May.
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International Society Dacryology and Dry Eye
The Watering and Dry Eye Update Course
Wednesday 29th May 2024
Programme
10.00 Badge Collection ISD-DE Reception Desk 4th Floor, County hall
10.30 Opening of the Update Course, part of the International Society of Dacryology and Dry Eye XIVth Congress, London, UK
Jane Olver, UK
10.35 Watery and Dry Eyes and the Lacrimal Circle
Jane Olver, UK
10.40 Impact of epiphora on everyday life
Elin Bohman, Sweden
10.55 The Basics: Causes and tests in the tearing patient
Dyonne Hartong, Netherlands
11.10 The Basics: Tearing in patients with a patent lacrimal system
Hunter Yuen, Hong Kong
11.25 The Basics: Eyelid causes of watery and dry eyes
Tristan McMullan, UK
11.35 Special cases: Thyroid Eye Disease – significance of watery and dry eyes
Jimmy Uddin, UK
11.45 The Basics: Punctal and Lacrimal Probing and Syringing
Neil Rowson, UK
12.00 The Basics: Radiological Tests for Epiphora
Ulrich Lachmund, Switzerland
12.15 MR DCG
Saul Rajak, UK
12.25 The Basics: Nasal endoscopic examination of the Nose
Ahmad Aziz, UK
12.35 Anatomical variations in endoscopic DCR
Hew Oliphant, UK
12.45 Questions and Answers
13.00 – 14.00 Light Lunch
14.00 Diagrammatic representation of the lacrimal drainage system
Gangadhara Sundar, Singapore
14.10 7 tricks for performing good endonasal endoscopic DCR
Nikolaos Trakos, Greece
14.20 7 tricks to performing good external DCR
Geoff Rose, UK
14.30 The Basics: Punctal stenosis and canalicular obstruction, aetiology, diagnosis and treatment
Francesco Quaranta-Leoni, Italy
14.45 The Basics: Assessment and diagnosis of dry eyes
Laura Maubon, UK
15.15 Questions and Answers
15.20 – 15.50 Tea
15.50 The Basics: Office Treatment of Dry Eyes and Blepharitis
Nizar Din, UK
16.20 Optometry & Dry Eye Management Success
Brian Tompkins, UK
16.40 Questions & Answers
16.45 Imaging the Dry Eye
Professor Harminder Dua, UK
17.15 Questions and Answers
17.30 Leave and Adjourn for Welcome Reception starting at 18.00 – 20.00 in the Thames Suite
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NB The above program may be subject to change.