Previous BOPSS annual awards winners
The Annual Publication Award
2025 – Primary acquired melanosis with spill over periocular lentigo maligna: 19-year outcomes at a specialist eyelid and ocular oncology centre Mumta Kanda, Moorfields
2024 – Malik Moledina (supervised by Adeela Malik), Lateral tarsal strip procedure: comparison of absorbable sutures and non-absorbable polypropylene suture. Does the suture type matter?
2023 – Laura Ah-Kye, Benign Eyelid Lesion Pathway: 1 year experience of synchronous tele-oculoplastics in a tertiary hospital
2022 – Mohsan Malik, Orbital Exenteration for Advanced Periocular Adnexal Malignancies: Curative Versus Palliative Surgical Intent” published in Ophthalmic Plastic Reconstructive Surgery, 2022
2021 – Jo Jefferis, Optic nerve sheath fenestration via a supero-medial eyelid skin crease approach for the treatment of idiopathic intracranial hypertension in a UK population” published in Eye, June, 2020 (PMID: 32555545)
2020 – none awarded
2019 – Jonathan Roos, Serial TSH-receptor antibody levels to guide the management of thyroid eye disease: the impact of smoking, immunosuppression, radio-iodine, and thyroidectomy
2018 – John Bladen “Analysis of hedgehog signaling in periocular sebaceous carcinoma
2017 – Hannah Timlin, “Characterizing the Occluded Lacrimal Punctum Using Anterior Segment Optical Coherence Tomography”
Richard Collin Award
2024 – Gabriella Guevara (supervised by Jimmy Uddin), “To investigate the reliability (sensitivity and specificity) of the Histolog® Scanner in the use of margin assessment for periocular tumours”
2023 – Laura Ah-Kye, “Orbital dystopia and glove displacement”
2022 – Yunzi Chen, Middlesbrough “One-year prospective survey into paediatric thyroid eye disease, epidemiology, presenting features and current management in the UK
2021 – none awarded
2020 – none awarded
2019 – Conor Malone, Sligo “ULYSSes: the Universal LachrYmal Surgery System”
2018 – John Bladen, London “The incidence of eyelid melanoma”
2017 – Christopher Schulz, Salisbury “A national surveillance study of locally advanced peri-ocular basal cell carcinoma in the United Kingdom”
International Visiting Fellow Award
2024 – Dr Kayoma, Consultant Ophthalmologist, University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Nigeria sponsored by Gbemi Oworu
2023 – none awarded
2022 – Dr Olubanke T. Ilo, Nigeria sponsored by Gbemi Oworu
2021 – none awarded
2020 – none awarded
2019 – Dr Saba Muhammad Mamman, Nigeria sponsored by Gbemi Oworu
2018 – Prerna Arjyal Kafle, Nepal sponsored by Austin McCormick
2017 – Dr O Taiwo
Meeting Attendance Grant
2025 – Dr Nandini Bothra – BOPSS sponsor: Raman Malhotra
Dr Rolika Bansal – BOPSS sponsor: Sachin Salvi
2024 – none awarded
2023 – Ms Irene Castellanos – BOPSS sponsor: Raman Malhotra
2022 – Dr Patricia Musa, Nigeria sponsored by Gbemi Owuro
2021 – none awarded
2020 – none awarded
2019 – Dr Farag – sponsored by Vickie Lee
Dr Khamees, Iraq – sponsored by Rebecca Ford
Brighton 2025 Prizewinners
Video Prize
Utility of Smart Glasses in the Documentation of Intraoperative Findings and Surgical Techniques
Bryan Jason Atienza, Hull
Free Paper Prize
Single-Cell Transcriptomic Analysis Reveals Distinct Fibroblast Phenotypes in Active and Inactive Thyroid Eye Disease
Anne Xuan-Lan Nguyen, Oxford
E-poster Prize (joint winner)
Dermal Matrix Templates in Periocular and Orbital Reconstruction
Miguel Kurc, Manchester
E-poster Prize (joint winner)
Validation of the Barret Index in diagnosing dysthyroid optic neuropathy, a United Kingdom population
Eleanor McCance, Cardiff
Ted CT Prize (joint winner)
Single-Cell Transcriptomic Analysis Reveals Distinct Fibroblast Phenotypes in Active and Inactive Thyroid Eye Disease
Anne Xuan-Lan Nguyen, Oxford
Ted CT Prize (joint winner)
Post-teprotumumab surgical orbital decompression in residual or reactivated thyroid eye disease
Rolika Bansal, Hydrabad
