Conferences Organised

World Sight Day, Belfast, 13 October 2016
Presentation by Tunde Peto: "Diabetic eye disease in the UK: current research trends and results"
Attended by: All Belfast Ophthalmic Reading Centre and CARF staff

World Sight Day, Belfast, 12 October 2017
Presentation by Usha Chakravarthy: "Mining electronic care rcord data: what can we learn from Age Related Macular Degeneration network and what do current diabetes results show?"
Attended by: All Belfast Ophthalmic Reading Centre and CARF staff

What is new in the diagnosis and management of retinal diseases? Scientific Meeting in honour of Professor Usha Chakravarthy, Belfast, 13 October 2017
Presentation by Tunde Peto: "Ophthalmic imaging revolutionised eye care, and here is how"
Presentation by Simon Harding: "Diabetic retinopathy screening, big data and NetwORC UK: the power of collaboration in eye research and eye care"
Attended by: All Belfast Ophthalmic Reading Centre staff

EASDEC, Belfast, 24-26 May 2018
Presentation by Usha Chakravarthy: "Satellite symposia - Mining the UK EMR data for diabetic eye care"
Presentation by Barbra Hamill: "Satellite symposia - Ground truth grading for AI, graders' experience"
Presentation by Tunde Peto: "Satellite symposia - The way forward"
Presentation by Tunde Peto: "Do visual outcomes differ when ILUVIEN is administered as a monotherapy versus delivery as combination therapy?"
Poster presentation by Barbra Hamill: "Disorganisation of retinal inner layers in patients with Diabetic Macular Oedema"
Poster presentation by Catherine Jamison et al: "Diabetic retinopathy in patients with diabetes mellitus secondary to chronic pancreatitis"
Poster presentation by Nicola Quinn: "Integration of diabetic eye screening in a haemodialysis clinic"
Attended by: Laura Cushley

World Sight Day, Belfast, 11 October 2018
Presentation by Laura Cushley: "The built environment and the visually impaired"
Presentation by Tunde Peto et al: "Diabetic eye disease around the world"
Attended by: All Belfast Ophthalmic Reading Centre and CARF staff

Pan-Ireland Ophthalmology Day, Belfast, 12 October 2018
Attended by: All Belfast Ophthalmic Reading Centre staff

What is New in Retinal Diseases, Patient Engagement Day, Belfast, 13 October 2018
Presentation by Tunde Peto et al: "What is new in diabetic eye care? New lasers, injections versus tablets and eye-drops"
Presentation by Laura Cushley et al: "Navigating the built environment"
Attended by: All Belfast Ophthalmic Reading Centre staff

Upcoming Conferences

European Eye Epidemiology (E3), Belfast, 6-7 June 2019

World Sight Day, Belfast, 10 October 2019

Pan-Ireland Ophthalmology Day, Belfast, 11 October 2019

Patient Engagement Day, Belfast, 12 October 2019

Women in Vision UK, Athena Swan Conference, Belfast, 13 December 2019

Conferences Attended

The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO), Baltimore, 2017
Poster presentation by Nicola Quinn: "Prevalence and characteristics of peripheral retinal lesions in an aging population"

The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO), Hawaii, 2018
Poster presentation by Nicola Quinn: "Clinical characteristics of the peripheral retina in age-related macular degeneration in an aging population"

The Transformative Potential of Data and Image Analysis for Eye Care, Royal Society London, 2018
Poster presentation by Catherine Jamison and Tunde Peto: "Big data are only as good as the graders, and graders are only as good as the questions"

16th Annual Meeting of the British Society for Clinical Electrophysiology of Vision, Bristol, 17-18 September 2018
Oral presentation by Savita Madhusudhan et al: "A case of Salt and Pepper Retinopathy"

Creating active and livable societies for all: Enhancing the interface between researchers, practitioners and policymakers, ISPAH Post Satellite Conference, Belfast, 18 October 2018
Attended by: Laura Cushley

Adaptive Optics Retinal Imaging, Paris, October 2018
Attended by: Barbra Hamill

UK Eye Genetics Group Annual Conference, Birmingham, 1 November 2018
Poster presentation by Savita Madhusudhan et al: "Oliver Mcfarlane syndome with secondary choroidal neovascularisation"

Annual Student and Trainee Ophthalmic Conference (ASTOC), The Royal Society of Medicine, London, 1 December 2018
Poster presentation by David Parry, Savita Madhusudhan et al: "Evaluating the wet AMD rapid access referrals"

Women in Vision UK, Athena Swan Conference, Liverpool, 14 December 2018
Rapid fire presentation by Laura Cushley: "The built environment and the visually impaired"
Rapid fire presentation by Nicola Quinn: "Integration of diabetic eye screening in a haemodialysis clinic"

NICRN Vision Research Conference, Belfast, 15 March 2019
Presentation by Nicola Quinn: "Prevalence of age related eye disease in NICOLA: implications for care in Northern Ireland"
Poster presentation by Barbra Hamill: "Microvascular changes following low dose focal radiotherapy for neovascular age-related macular degeneration"
Attended by: All Belfast Ophthalmic Reading Centre staff

Manchester Royal Eye Hospital, 20 March 2019
Invited lecture by Savita Madhusudhan: "Genetics and Pharmacogenomics of Age-related Macular Degeneration"

Retina UK Liverpool Support Group, 29 April 2019
Invited talk by Savita Madhusudhan: "Overview of current research in Inherited Retinal Disease"

ARVO 2019, Vancouver
Poster presentation by Nicola Quinn: "Comparison of ultra-wide field and colour fundus photography in the detection of choroidal naevi"

EASDEC 2019, Amsterdam
Oral presentation by Nicola Quinn: "Clinical characteristics of diabetic retinopathy in NICOLA"