Previous BOPSS annual awards winners
The Annual Publication Award
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
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
LEEDS 2024 Prizewinners
Video Prize
Treading the LINES: A facial reconstruction challenge
Christine Putri, Sheffield
Free Paper Prize
Cemiplimab a programmed cell death 1(PD1) protein inhibitor for the treatment of locally advanced and metastatic cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck – real world data
Holly Clarke, Portsmouth
E-poster Prize
How to create 3D models of orbital structures from dissected human body donors
Harry Rosen, Queen Alexandra Hospital
Ted CT Prize
A ‘Real life’ study of thyroid eye disease (TED) following radioactive iodine (RAI) therapy
John Vekinis, Imperial College
