Friday programme

Mr. Tim Fulcher MMedSci(Anatomy), EBOD, FRCOphth.

Having graduated from University College Dublin and completed a Masters of Medical Science in Anatomy, Tim completed his Ophthalmic Surgery training in Ireland.

Tim undertook a Fellowship in Corneal and External eye disease in Moorfields and then a further Fellowship in Eyelid, Lacrimal and Orbital disease in Brisbane, Australia.

Tim was appointed as a Consultant to the Mater Misericordiae Hospital, Dublin and Beaumont Hospital, Dublin in 2000, where he manages the Ocular adnexal service. Tim is also an Honorary Consultant to the Children’s University Hospital, Temple Street , Dublin.

As a former chairman of the manpower, education and training committee of the Irish College of Ophthalmologists and current unit programme director, Tim also hosts an annual surgical training course for Basic Specialist Trainees.

Peter Dolman is a clinical professor at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, Canada and is on active staff at five hospitals.  He is the director of ophthalmology fellowship programs at UBC, division head of oculoplastics and orbit, and a past president of the BC Society of Eye Physicians and the Canadian Society of Oculoplastics and Reconstructive Surgeons. He is the past- president of the International Thyroid Eye Disease Society and a member of the Orbit Society, an international consortium of orbit experts.

He has supervised over 45 international oculoplastics fellows, has delivered over 250 invited lectures, and published 25 chapters and over 85 journal articles. He recently co-edited a textbook on diseases of the orbit and ocular adnexa which was published in February, 2017.

He has volunteered as a surgeon or lecturer in over 30 developing nations and has received several departmental research and teaching awards, the ASOPRS research award (2007) and the Queen Elizabeth Gold Medal for community service.

Mr René is a Consultant Oculoplastic Surgeon at Addenbrooke’s Hospital (Cambridge) and Hinchingbrooke Hospital (Huntingdon). He is Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine.

He qualified at Middlesex Hospital in London in 1985 and completed junior ophthalmology training in London and the South East, before moving to Birmingham for a period of research, followed by Ophthalmology Higher Surgical Training in Birmingham and the West Midlands region. He completed subspecialty fellowship training at Queen’s Medical Centre (Nottingham) and Moorfields Eye Hospital (London), and took up his consultant post in Cambridge and Huntingdon in 1998. He practices exclusively in all aspects of adnexal surgery, with a special interest in lacrimal surgery, orbital surgery and reconstructive eyelid surgery.

Mr René is a founder member of the British Oculoplastic Surgery Society (BOPSS). He served the Society for 4 years as the Treasurer and is the current President. He is passionate about teaching and has run a very successful fellowship programme in Cambridge since 2004. He has been a faculty member on the Ipswich Lacrimal Course since its inception and he has been a visiting consultant on the Lifeline Express Teaching Programme in China since 2013.

His main interests outside medicine are photography, music, family and cooking.

Timothy Sullivan completed his Ophthalmology training in 1988, then undertook further subspecialty Fellowship Training in Oculoplastics, Eyelid, Lacrimal and Orbital Disease at Moorfields Eye Hospital, London and Paediatric Ophthalmology in Toronto at The Hospital for Sick Children.When he returned to Brisbane in 1992 he joined the Terrace Eye Centre, to provide tertiary and quaternary level subspecialty care. Since then he has also worked in the public sector, conducting the Orbital Clinic at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital and Royal and Lady Cilento Children’s Hospitals.

While focusing on clinical care, he has always conducted clinical research to be abreast of and push latest developments. He has published over 130 papers in peer reviewed journals, book chapters and 400 presentations at National and International meetings. He is on the editorial boards of Clinical Experimental Ophthalmology, Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and the Asia Pacific Journal of Ophthalmology.

Complementing his clinical and research efforts he is involved in medical student, registrar and Fellow teaching as Professor of Ophthalmology for the University of Queensland. He is a former President of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Ophthalmic Plastic Surgery and the Asia-Pacific Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, and an active Fellow of the American and European Societies of Oculoplastic and Reconstructive Surgery. He is on the board of the International Thyroid Eye Disease Society. With this academic background, he continues to provide first class care to his patients

Mr Sachin Salvi is a Consultant Ophthalmologist specializing in Ocular Oncology and Adnexal surgery at Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield, UK.

He is the MDT lead at the National Sheffield Ocular Oncology Service, one of three designated Ocular Oncology Centers in England. He is one of the select few Ophthalmologists in the country managing the full spectrum of adult ophthalmic oncology patients including eyelid, conjunctival, intraocular and orbital tumours.

As the regional Orbital surgery lead, his interests include optic nerve sheath fenestration surgery, orbital decompression surgery for thyroid eye disease and post traumatic orbital reconstruction. He has trained extensively in India, UK and USA with Fellowship training at Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield; Moorfields Eye Hospital, London and Cole Eye Institute, Cleveland Clinic, USA.

He is regularly involved in voluntary Ophthalmic work in Trinidad and Tobago as well as in India. His sporting passion is cricket and is the founding member of Sheffield Medics Cricket Club, currently positioned in the second division of the Yorkshire and Derbyshire league.

Dr Michael Capra is a Paediatric Oncologist at Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Dublin.

Michael graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa in 1987 following which he completed his postgraduate paediatric and specialist paediatric oncology training in the United Kingdom in London and Nottingham.

He obtained his Membership of the Royal College of Physicians (London) in 1995 and his Masters in Medical Education (Nottingham) in 2000 prior to commencing his Paediatric Haematology/Oncology Fellowship in The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto in 2001. He was appointed on staff at the same institution in 2003, a post he held until 2006 when he relocated to Dublin to take up a Paediatric Oncology Consultant post in Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital.

He is a member of the International Society of Paediatric Oncology (SIOP), SIOPEL Childhood Liver Tumour Study Group, SIOPE Brain Tumour Group, the Children’s Cancer and Leukaemia Group (CCLG), and the Children’s Oncology Group (COG).

Mr David Verity is a Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon, and Adnexal Service Director, at Moorfields Eye Hospital, London and Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer, University College London

Trained in ophthalmology in UK, Mr Verity undertook two Fellowships in ophthalmic adnexal disease before joining the Consultant staff at Moorfields Eye Hospital in 2004.

He is a Full Member of the British Oculoplastic Surgery Society and Member of the International Society of Ocular Oncology.

In 2009, he was elected to the Orbital Society, in 2010 became Editor-in Chief of the journal ORBIT, and in 2016 became Oculoplastic Section Editor for the Journal of Ophthalmic and Vision Research.  His medical publications in peer-reviewed journals and books include 90(+) publications, and with a wide range of research interests, he is an active national and international teacher and surgical trainer.

Mr Verity also has a life-long interest in the charitable work of the St John Eye Hospital Group (www.soa.global). In 2014 he was invested in the Order of St John, and in 2016 joined the Board as Trustee of the Hospital Group.

Bijan Beigi, MD, FRCS, FRCOphth

Bijan Beigi specialises in eyelid and mid-face cosmetic and reconstructive surgery as well as lacrimal and orbital surgery. He has performed over 10000 eyelid & mid-face operations to date and pioneered surgical procedures.

His basic ophthalmic training was in Dublin (UCD), Bristol Eye Hospital and Moorfields Eye Hospitals (UK).  He runs the ocular Adnexal Service in Norwich. He has been a member of ESOPRS for 25 years and a founder member of BOPSS. He has published over 70 articles and delivers regular lectures as a visiting professor.

He has been a lead trainer and external clinical advisor for the Royal college of Ophthalmologists and CQC. He is a special advisor to the National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE) for new surgical procedures in the UK.

Kate Coleman qualified in the Royal college of Surgeons in Ireland before training the the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital and attaining her FRCS(Ed) and FRCOphth. In March 1988 she presented a review on patients treated with Botulinum Toxin to the Royal Irish Academy of Medicine before developing techniques for facial balancing in the same patients. She was the first Orbital and Oculoplastic Fellow with the late Professor Leo Koorneef in the Academisch Medical Center in Amsterdam where she also had the privilege of working with Graves Ophthalmology expert, Marten Mourits. She defended her PhD in choroidal melanoma at the Free University Amsterdam with Professor Jan Baak and Professor Mary Leader RCSI Dublin before finishing her SR training in Cork and Dublin. She was lecturer at the Mater Hospital for two years prior to establishing her Ophthalmic surgery practice at Blackrock Clinic, Dublin, in 1996.

Since 2012 she has restricted her practice to orbital, lacrimal and oculoplastic surgery with a special interest in neuromodulation and facial asymmetry. In 2000 she presented a symposium on the use of Botulinum Toxin for Rejuvenation for Allergan at the Royal Society of Medicine, London before subsequently writing a didactic handbook in 2003. This book has been published in six languages and the second edition is in press, with a focus on the Art of botulinum toxin administration for rejuvenation

Consultant Ophthalmic and Oculoplastic Surgeon, Manchester Royal Eye Hospital, UK

I graduated from Charing Cross & Westminster Medical School, London, in 1991 and then
trained in general ophthalmology in Manchester & North West England.

After Oculoplastic Fellowships in Auckland & Manchester, I was appointed as a Consultant Oculoplastic, Lacrimal & Orbital Surgeon in 2002 at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital (MREH) where I’m the Clinical Lead for Oculoplastic Surgery.

I also co-run a renowned Fellowship in Oculoplastic Surgery at MREH.

My work for the Royal College of Ophthalmologists’ (RCOphth) includes College Tutor (2005-12) and currently Regional Adviser.

I’m a founder member of the British Oculoplastic Surgery Society (BOPSS) and represent both RCOphth & BOPSS at the RCSEng Cosmetic Surgery Interspecialty Committee.

Miss Rachna Murthy is a Consultant ophthalmologist, oculoplastic and peri-ocular reconstructive Surgeon at Cambridge University and Ipswich Hospitals, UK.  She has specialist interests in Thyroid Eye Disease, peri-ocular skin cancer management, and peri-ocular aesthetic surgical and non-surgical treatments. Following her specialist training in ophthalmology in the UK, she undertook 3 years of fellowship training in thyroid eye disease, orbital and peri-ocular surgery at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, The Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital, Melbourne, Australia, Moorfield’s Eye Hospital, London and The Craniofacial Unit of Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, London.

She is an invited speaker for the British Thyroid Foundation (BTF) and is faculty for several oculoplastic and orbital courses.

Her research includes the characterisation of triggers and drives for thyroid eye disease and improving the clinical activity and severity assessment of patients with thyroid eye disease. She is also involved in active research in the fields of oculoplastic surgery, tumour management and peri-ocular aesthetics.
Lastly, she leads the regional specialist thyroid eye disease service at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge.

Mr Leatherbarrow was a consultant at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital from 1992-2014. He is now in full time private practice. He trained in ophthalmic plastic and reconstructive surgery at Moorfields Eye Hospital, London (1989-1990) and at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, U.S.A. (1991-1992).

He has worked closely with plastic surgeons, ENT surgeons, neurosurgeons, neuroradiologists, maxillofacial surgeons, and dermatologists for over 20 years.

He was the Founder Treasurer of the British Oculoplastic Surgery Society (BOPSS) and the President (2011-14). He is a member of the European Society of Ophthalmic Plastic & Reconstructive Surgeons (ESOPRS), the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) and an inter-specialty member of the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (BAAPS).

He has over 100 publications in scientific journals and has contributed 6 book chapters. He is the single author of the major textbook ‘OCULOPLASTIC SURGERY‘. The 3rd Edition of his textbook is due for publication by Thieme in the autumn of 2018.