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New for BOPSS 2019: An opportunity for trainees (specialist trainees and fellows) to informally meet the BOPSS executive team over coffee. If you have any queries, suggestions or comments or would just like to meet the President, Secretary and Treasurer, this is your chance.
Welcome, housekeeping and introductions
Mrs Katya Tambe is an adult and paediatric oculoplastic consultant at the Nottingham University Teaching Hospitals. She has a keen interest in paediatric oculoplastics, facial nerve palsy and peri-ocular reconstructions. She runs a busy paediatric oculoplastic service at NUH and works closely with the Moh’s surgeons in the reconstructions following periocular tumour excisions.
In the private sector she performs surgical blepharoplasties and the full range of oculoplastic surgery, specialising in personalised aesthetic surgery with a focus on natural outcomes.
Mrs Tambe trained in India where she received the gold medal for Ophthalmology at the Diplomate of National Board examinations. She then completed her specialist training in the West Midlands Deanery. She is one of the few dual trained oculoplastic surgeons having done a Fellowship in Paediatric Ophthalmology at the Birmingham Children’s Hospital and Oculoplastics Fellowships at Leicester and Moorfields. Visiting Fellowships to Philadelphia and Toronto further enhanced her paediatric oculoplastic experience.
She conducts a popular annual oculoplastic cadaveric dissection course in Nottingham along with colleagues from the East Midlands. Mrs Tambe supervises the Nottingham Oculoplastic Fellowship programme with her colleagues. She is the joint head of service for the Department of Ophthalmology in Nottingham. She currently chairs the Ophthalmic League of friends Charity, of the Queens Medical Centre, which she is very passionate about.
Chaired by:
Michèle Beaconsfield FRCOphth FEBO
Consultant Surgeon Adnexal Service Moorfields Eye Hospital, London
Qualified from Charing Cross Hospital 1979; Adnexal training with Messrs Collin, Welham & Wright; Oculoplastic Fellowship with Richard Collin 1988.
Consultant Ophthalmic & Oculoplastic Surgeon since 1991 with particular interest in surgical rehabilitation (ocular cicatricial disease, thyroid ophthalmopathy, facial palsy, tumour defect reconstruction). Created the specialised Lid Oncology service at Moorfields over 10 years ago which runs with consultant surgeons and Mohs specialists, a dedicated Fellow, a Cancer Nurse Specialist, and works with a multidisciplinary team of oncologists, radiologists, pathologists, maxillofacial and plastic surgeons.
Was Examiner for the Royal College of Ophthalmologists and the European Board of Ophthalmology for 20 years; also Educational supervisor and Trainee mentor. Now chairs newly established ESOPRS examination board.
Mrs Katya Tambe is an adult and paediatric oculoplastic consultant at the Nottingham University Teaching Hospitals. She has a keen interest in paediatric oculoplastics, facial nerve palsy and peri-ocular reconstructions. She runs a busy paediatric oculoplastic service at NUH and works closely with the Moh’s surgeons in the reconstructions following periocular tumour excisions.
In the private sector she performs surgical blepharoplasties and the full range of oculoplastic surgery, specialising in personalised aesthetic surgery with a focus on natural outcomes.
Mrs Tambe trained in India where she received the gold medal for Ophthalmology at the Diplomate of National Board examinations. She then completed her specialist training in the West Midlands Deanery. She is one of the few dual trained oculoplastic surgeons having done a Fellowship in Paediatric Ophthalmology at the Birmingham Children’s Hospital and Oculoplastics Fellowships at Leicester and Moorfields. Visiting Fellowships to Philadelphia and Toronto further enhanced her paediatric oculoplastic experience.
She conducts a popular annual oculoplastic cadaveric dissection course in Nottingham along with colleagues from the East Midlands. Mrs Tambe supervises the Nottingham Oculoplastic Fellowship programme with her colleagues. She is the joint head of service for the Department of Ophthalmology in Nottingham. She currently chairs the Ophthalmic League of friends Charity, of the Queens Medical Centre, which she is very passionate about.
Miss Sarah Osborne is a Consultant Ophthalmic Oculoplastic Surgeon and provides a regional NHS oculoplastic, lacrimal, trauma and orbital service as part of the Moorfields at St Georges team. She often works with the head and neck multidisciplinary team and works closely with the maxillofacial and ENT services in order to provide multidisciplinary care to patients. St Georges is a major trauma centre she often deals with trauma patients and provides follow-up reconstructive care.
After completing her general ophthalmology training Miss Osborne undertook sub-speciality oculoplastic training at Manchester Eye Hospital, spent a year in New Zealand as an oculoplastic and lacrimal fellow and a further year as an oculoplastic, lacrimal and orbital fellow at Moorfields Eye Hospital
Michèle Beaconsfield FRCOphth FEBO
Consultant Surgeon Adnexal Service Moorfields Eye Hospital, London
Qualified from Charing Cross Hospital 1979; Adnexal training with Messrs Collin, Welham & Wright; Oculoplastic Fellowship with Richard Collin 1988.
Consultant Ophthalmic & Oculoplastic Surgeon since 1991 with particular interest in surgical rehabilitation (ocular cicatricial disease, thyroid ophthalmopathy, facial palsy, tumour defect reconstruction). Created the specialised Lid Oncology service at Moorfields over 10 years ago which runs with consultant surgeons and Mohs specialists, a dedicated Fellow, a Cancer Nurse Specialist, and works with a multidisciplinary team of oncologists, radiologists, pathologists, maxillofacial and plastic surgeons.
Was Examiner for the Royal College of Ophthalmologists and the European Board of Ophthalmology for 20 years; also Educational supervisor and Trainee mentor. Now chairs newly established ESOPRS examination board.
Chaired by:
Miss Joyce Burns, Leicester
Joyce Burns has been consultant ophthalmologist and oculoplastic surgeon since 2005. She works at the Leicester Royal Infirmary, a tertiary referral centre for lid, lacrimal and orbital disease, having completed ophthalmology training in Merseyside and the East Midlands before fellowships at Leicester and Nottingham.
She has a special interest in ocular prosthetics, undertaking a twice monthly joint clinic with a senior prosthetist from the National Artificial Eye Service, and has twice been invited speaker for at the annual Prosthetists Conference in Blackpool. She is passionate about promoting a wider understanding of ocular prostheses, speaking on the topic at the national optometry conference and the Nottingham Paediatric Oculoplastics meeting. She is currently working with local providers to develop a practical course for patients with newly acquired monocular vision.
She was joint developer of the Leicester Peripheral Field test used to demonstrate the visual defects generated by ptosis or dermatochalasis, presenting the work in the UK (BOPSS 2011) and the USA (ASOPRS 2012). She was also co-author of the BOPSS 2013 paper prize for a 10 year study looking at the risk of BCC recurrence based on histological subtype.
Prof. Bita Esmaeli, Texas, USA
Dr Bita Esmaeli is a Professor and Fellowship Program Director for Ophthalmic Plastic Surgery in the Department of Plastic Surgery at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, where she has had an orbital oncology and oncologic ophthalmic plastic surgery practice since 1998.
Dr Esmaeli’s practice focus is surgical treatment of orbital tumors, lacrimal gland carcinomas, eyelid cancers, melanoma of eyelid and conjunctiva, and reconstructive surgery in the periocular region including lacrimal surgery. Her research interests include early detection of metastasis, multi-disciplinary eye sparing approaches, and molecular targets for treatment for ocular and orbital cancers.
Dr Esmaeli has authored over 210 peer-reviewed manuscripts, over 55 invited articles and book chapters, and has spearheaded numerous clinical trials and research protocols at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. She teaches widely throughout the world and is a frequent guest speaker at international meetings. She has received many prestigious awards and honors including the Merrill Reeh Pathology Award and the Research Award from the American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, the American Academy of Ophthalmology Senior Achievement Award, Best Doctors in America, and Top Doctors Award. Dr Esmaeli is a member of the American Ophthalmologic Society.
Miss Joyce Burns, Leicester
Joyce Burns has been consultant ophthalmologist and oculoplastic surgeon since 2005. She works at the Leicester Royal Infirmary, a tertiary referral centre for lid, lacrimal and orbital disease, having completed ophthalmology training in Merseyside and the East Midlands before fellowships at Leicester and Nottingham.
She has a special interest in ocular prosthetics, undertaking a twice monthly joint clinic with a senior prosthetist from the National Artificial Eye Service, and has twice been invited speaker for at the annual Prosthetists Conference in Blackpool. She is passionate about promoting a wider understanding of ocular prostheses, speaking on the topic at the national optometry conference and the Nottingham Paediatric Oculoplastics meeting. She is currently working with local providers to develop a practical course for patients with newly acquired monocular vision.
She was joint developer of the Leicester Peripheral Field test used to demonstrate the visual defects generated by ptosis or dermatochalasis, presenting the work in the UK (BOPSS 2011) and the USA (ASOPRS 2012). She was also co-author of the BOPSS 2013 paper prize for a 10 year study looking at the risk of BCC recurrence based on histological subtype.
Prof. Bita Esmaeli, Texas, USA
Dr Bita Esmaeli is a Professor and Fellowship Program Director for Ophthalmic Plastic Surgery in the Department of Plastic Surgery at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, where she has had an orbital oncology and oncologic ophthalmic plastic surgery practice since 1998.
Dr Esmaeli’s practice focus is surgical treatment of orbital tumors, lacrimal gland carcinomas, eyelid cancers, melanoma of eyelid and conjunctiva, and reconstructive surgery in the periocular region including lacrimal surgery. Her research interests include early detection of metastasis, multi-disciplinary eye sparing approaches, and molecular targets for treatment for ocular and orbital cancers.
Dr Esmaeli has authored over 210 peer-reviewed manuscripts, over 55 invited articles and book chapters, and has spearheaded numerous clinical trials and research protocols at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. She teaches widely throughout the world and is a frequent guest speaker at international meetings. She has received many prestigious awards and honors including the Merrill Reeh Pathology Award and the Research Award from the American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, the American Academy of Ophthalmology Senior Achievement Award, Best Doctors in America, and Top Doctors Award. Dr Esmaeli is a member of the American Ophthalmologic Society.
Rebecca Ford is a consultant oculoplastic and orbital surgeon at Bristol Eye Hospital, where she is also co-Clinical Director. She trained in internal medicine in Plymouth and ophthalmology in London, followed by oculoplastics fellowship training in Birmingham. Current research interests include IgG4-related orbital disease, best practice in eyelid malposition, and thyroid eye disease.
Rebecca has a special interest in medical education; she was a London Deanery Fellow in Medical Education and completed her Masters degree in surgical education at Imperial College London. She is a member of the RCOphth Education Committee and College Lead for e-learning, and leads the ‘Training the Trainers’ international program. She is also the lead examiner for the International Council of Ophthalmology Oculoplastics Subspecialty Exam. Rebecca is the current chair of the Thyroid Eye Disease Charitable Trust, a charity dedicated to supporting patients with thyroid eye disease and promoting research into this condition.
Miss Lucy Clarke, Newcastle
Lucy Clarke is clinical lead for the oculoplastics department at Newcastle Eye Centre and head of the regional orbital service. Raised as a surgeon in the north east her ocuolpastic skills were refined by fellowships in Newcastle, Nottingham and Manchester. She is also head of the Eye Emergency Department.
Mr Jason Watson, Consultant Clinical Scientist, Nottingham
Jason Watson has worked in Reconstructive Science for 28 years at 2 large teaching Hospitals in Sheffield and Nottingham (2001-2019). He developed the first in-house NHS based 3D printing service in Nottingham in 2008 and has published over 25 articles in peer reviewed international journals.
Jason plays an active role in his professional body and has written two educational curricula in conjunction with the Modernising Scientific Careers (DoH) and RCS England for Scientist level (MSc) and Consultant (Clinical Doctorate level) training.
Jason has presented at many international meetings and is passionate about his job and loves teaching others about his field of work.
Chaired by:
Mrs Katya Tambe is an adult and paediatric oculoplastic consultant at the Nottingham University Teaching Hospitals. She has a keen interest in paediatric oculoplastics, facial nerve palsy and peri-ocular reconstructions. She runs a busy paediatric oculoplastic service at NUH and works closely with the Moh’s surgeons in the reconstructions following periocular tumour excisions.
In the private sector she performs surgical blepharoplasties and the full range of oculoplastic surgery, specialising in personalised aesthetic surgery with a focus on natural outcomes.
Mrs Tambe trained in India where she received the gold medal for Ophthalmology at the Diplomate of National Board examinations. She then completed her specialist training in the West Midlands Deanery. She is one of the few dual trained oculoplastic surgeons having done a Fellowship in Paediatric Ophthalmology at the Birmingham Children’s Hospital and Oculoplastics Fellowships at Leicester and Moorfields. Visiting Fellowships to Philadelphia and Toronto further enhanced her paediatric oculoplastic experience.
She conducts a popular annual oculoplastic cadaveric dissection course in Nottingham along with colleagues from the East Midlands. Mrs Tambe supervises the Nottingham Oculoplastic Fellowship programme with her colleagues. She is the joint head of service for the Department of Ophthalmology in Nottingham. She currently chairs the Ophthalmic League of friends Charity, of the Queens Medical Centre, which she is very passionate about.
Manoj Parulekar is a Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon at the Birmingham Childrens Hospital and the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust.
Mr Parulekar is involved in clinical and basic science research, collaborating with biomedical scientists and other academics in UK and abroad to develop and evaluate new treatments and diagnostic tests for a variety of eye conditions. He is Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham.
Mr Parulekar has a major interest in international ophthalmology, contributing to and learning from ophthalmic services in developing countries. He is a trustee of Sightsavers International, a charity dealing with prevention and treatment of blindness. He is involved with the Vision 2020 links programme and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, developing ophthalmology services in Africa (Tanzania).
Mr Parulekar contributes actively to the Royal College of Ophthalmologists and is program secretary, scientific committee and paediatric sub-committee member, and on the microsurgical training faculty. He is treasurer of the
Oxford Ophthalmological Congress.
Manoj Parulekar is a Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon at the Birmingham Childrens Hospital and the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust.
Mr Parulekar is involved in clinical and basic science research, collaborating with biomedical scientists and other academics in UK and abroad to develop and evaluate new treatments and diagnostic tests for a variety of eye conditions. He is Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham.
Mr Parulekar has a major interest in international ophthalmology, contributing to and learning from ophthalmic services in developing countries. He is a trustee of Sightsavers International, a charity dealing with prevention and treatment of blindness. He is involved with the Vision 2020 links programme and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, developing ophthalmology services in Africa (Tanzania).
Mr Parulekar contributes actively to the Royal College of Ophthalmologists and is program secretary, scientific committee and paediatric sub-committee member, and on the microsurgical training faculty. He is treasurer of the
Oxford Ophthalmological Congress.
Dr. Quaranta-Leoni is the Director of the Adnexal and Orbital Service in the Dept. of Ophthalmology of Villa Tiberia Hospital in Rome and has a commitment to teaching, actively participating in residents training in adnexal disease.
He is the President Elect of ESOPRS, Past President and Past Secretary of SICOP (Italian Oculoplastic Surgery Society), International Associate Member of ASOPRS.
He attended Medical School at Catholic University of Rome – A. Gemelli Hospital, graduating with first-class honors in 1988. His postgraduate ophthalmic training was undertaken at the Department of Ophthalmology of Catholic University of Rome. He was awarded the Diploma of Ophthalmology with first-class honors in 1992 and undertook further training in Strabismus Surgery under the care of late Prof. Bruno Bagolini in 1992-1994.
Dr. Quaranta-Leoni attended a two-year Fellowship in Oculoplastic, Lacrimal and Orbital Surgery at Moorfields Eye Hospital – Londonin 1995-97 under the care of John Wright, Richard Collin, Geoffrey Rose and Michèle Beaconsfield. In 2014 he has been chosen to receive the ASOPRS Merrill Reeh Pathology Awardfor his work on: Management of Porous Orbital Implants Requiring Explantation: A Clinical and Histopathological Study. OPRS, 30(2):132-136, 2014.
His fields of interest are socket surgery, paediatric oculoplastic surgery, eyelid and orbital tumours, lacrimal surgery, thyroid eye disease.
He is married with two children and speaks fluent English, Italian, Spanish and French.
Asst. Prof. Andrea Kossler, Stanford, USA
Andrea Lora Kossler, MD, is Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at Stanford University School of Medicine and Director of the Ophthalmic Plastic, Reconstructive Surgery and Orbital Oncology Service at the Byers Eye Institute at Stanford. She specializes in plastic and reconstructive surgery of the forehead, mid-face, and eyes and has a special interest in aesthetic medicine and thyroid eye disease. Andrea has been in practice for over 8 years and treats adults and children with oculoplastic conditions. Dr. Kossler’s research interests include thyroid eye disease, orbital oncology, and neurostimulation for ocular surface disease.
Andrea is the Co-Director of the Thyroid Eye Disease Center at Stanford Hospital Center where she works together with a multidisciplinary team including an endocrinologist and radiation oncologist to provide patient centered care to patients diagnosed with thyroid eye disease. She is also the Director of the Stanford Aesthetic Eye Surgery Center where she specializes in cosmetic surgery and aesthetic treatments of the eyelids and face.
She earned her medical degree from Georgetown University School of Medicine where she graduated summa cum laude and valedictorian of her class. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Florida where she graduated with highest honors. She completed her internship in internal medicine at the Mount Sinai Medical Center and her residency in Ophthalmology at the number one ranked Bascom Palmer Eye Institute at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. She continued at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute to complete a fellowship in Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive surgery and served as a Clinic Instructor of Ophthalmology.
Outside of work Andrea enjoys time with her husband, two daughters and dog Roxy.
Chaired by:
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.
Prof. Gangadhara Sundar, Singapore
Dr Ganga obtained his degrees from Madras Medical College, postgraduate ophthalmology training from the Regional Institute of Ophthalmology & Govt Ophthalmic Hospital, Chennai, India followed by a residency and advanced subspecialty training from the Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, USA. He specializes in the diseases and surgery of the Eyelids, Lacrimal system, Orbit & Oculofacial diseases and Ophthalmic Oncology. Committed to clinical and surgical excellence, he is a regional and international expert in disorders such as orbital trauma, ophthalmic oncology, congential and acquired eyelid disorders, lacrimal system disorders, anophthalmic sockets, thyroid eye disease, facial palsy and esthetic orbito-facial rejuvenation (tissue fillers, Botox, blepharoplasty, brow & midface lifts). Some special interests include minimally invasive surgery (eg. endoluminal duct recanalization (ELDR)), complex orbital trauma reconstructions (navigation surgery, bioresorbable implants and customized implants), medical and surgical rehabilitation of thyroid eye disease, and vascular lesions of the orbit.
Dr Ganga was instrumental in starting various multidisciplinary services including the NUH Retinoblastoma service (with pediatric oncologists, neuro-interventional radiologists and pathologists), NUH Thyroid Eye Disease service (with Endocrinologists & immunologists) and the NUH Lacrimal service (with Rhinologists). He has trained Fellows from Singapore, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, India, Thailand, Iran, Syria & the United Kingdom.
He travels widely in Southeast Asia, AsiaPacific and as an international faculty at various orbital and craniomaxillofacial conferences, symposia and courses raising the level of care of orbital and orbitofacial disorder and has contributed chapters to several textbooks in his field. He serves in several leadership capacities in various national, regional and international professional societies.
Consultant Ophthalmic and Oculoplastic Surgeon Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead, UK
Raman Malhotra is a Consultant Ophthalmic and Oculoplastic surgeon at The Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, East Grinstead.
His specialist interests include facial nerve palsy rehabilitation, reconstructive eyelid and orbital surgery, endonasal lacrimal surgery and aesthetic eyelid rejuvenation. He also runs a fellowship training programme.
Mr Malhotra graduated in medicine and surgery from the University of Bristol, completed his basic ophthalmic surgical training at the Western Eye Hospital in London and went on to higher surgical training in Oxford. He undertook fellowship training in Adelaide, Australia, in 2002 before returning to the UK to take up consultant post at the Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead.
Prof. Gangadhara Sundar, Singapore
Dr Ganga obtained his degrees from Madras Medical College, postgraduate ophthalmology training from the Regional Institute of Ophthalmology & Govt Ophthalmic Hospital, Chennai, India followed by a residency and advanced subspecialty training from the Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, USA. He specializes in the diseases and surgery of the Eyelids, Lacrimal system, Orbit & Oculofacial diseases and Ophthalmic Oncology. Committed to clinical and surgical excellence, he is a regional and international expert in disorders such as orbital trauma, ophthalmic oncology, congential and acquired eyelid disorders, lacrimal system disorders, anophthalmic sockets, thyroid eye disease, facial palsy and esthetic orbito-facial rejuvenation (tissue fillers, Botox, blepharoplasty, brow & midface lifts). Some special interests include minimally invasive surgery (eg. endoluminal duct recanalization (ELDR)), complex orbital trauma reconstructions (navigation surgery, bioresorbable implants and customized implants), medical and surgical rehabilitation of thyroid eye disease, and vascular lesions of the orbit.
Dr Ganga was instrumental in starting various multidisciplinary services including the NUH Retinoblastoma service (with pediatric oncologists, neuro-interventional radiologists and pathologists), NUH Thyroid Eye Disease service (with Endocrinologists & immunologists) and the NUH Lacrimal service (with Rhinologists). He has trained Fellows from Singapore, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, India, Thailand, Iran, Syria & the United Kingdom.
He travels widely in Southeast Asia, AsiaPacific and as an international faculty at various orbital and craniomaxillofacial conferences, symposia and courses raising the level of care of orbital and orbitofacial disorder and has contributed chapters to several textbooks in his field. He serves in several leadership capacities in various national, regional and international professional societies.
Mr. Raghavan Sampath is a Consultant Lid, Lacrimal and Orbit Surgeon and Hon Associate Professor at University Hospitals of Leicester, U.K. since 2000.
He runs a busy tertiary referral centre at the teaching hospital. His unit has won various awards at national/international meetings. He has presented/conducted invited courses/symposia including live surgical demonstrations at various international meetings including Europe/America/Middle east/ Pakistan/India. His unit has more than 50 publications/book chapters (peer reviewed) to its credit. His unit is one of the few in the UK to have a fully funded Royal College recognised lid/lacrimal/orbit fellowship. He completed his ophthalmic training at Manchester and Southeast Thames rotation including Kings College Hospital. He did his lid, lacrimal and orbit fellowships at Manchester and Moorfields under the guidance of many including Richard Collin and Geoff Rose
In addition to his university hospital commitment he also has a busy private practice in the field in England. He also has set up a Lid, Lacrimal and Orbit centre at Rajan Eye Care Hospital, Chennai, India to which he visits every 6 months spending atleast a week to operate on patients and conduct teaching and training. His recent innovations include the Leicester Chopper for cataract surgery (2009 – available through Altomed) no financial interest, Leicester VF testing for upper lid pathology(2010 with JB) – now incorporated in the Zeiss Humphreys VF software , Leicester Suture technique for lower lid tarsal ectropion (2010), Leicester Lasoo technique for lateral canthus fixation (2012)
He is one of the few UK ophthalmologists to open a group practice private ambulatory centre (The Stoneygate Eye Hospital 2011). He has trained more than 30 ophthalmologists/oculoplastic surgeons so far who have all become consultant ophthalmic surgeons in the UK including at teaching hospitals.
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.
New for BOPSS 2019: An opportunity for trainees (specialist trainees and fellows) to informally meet the BOPSS executive team over coffee. If you have any queries, suggestions or comments or would just like to meet the President, Secretary and Treasurer, this is your chance.
Welcome, housekeeping and introductions
Mrs Katya Tambe is an adult and paediatric oculoplastic consultant at the Nottingham University Teaching Hospitals. She has a keen interest in paediatric oculoplastics, facial nerve palsy and peri-ocular reconstructions. She runs a busy paediatric oculoplastic service at NUH and works closely with the Moh’s surgeons in the reconstructions following periocular tumour excisions.
In the private sector she performs surgical blepharoplasties and the full range of oculoplastic surgery, specialising in personalised aesthetic surgery with a focus on natural outcomes.
Mrs Tambe trained in India where she received the gold medal for Ophthalmology at the Diplomate of National Board examinations. She then completed her specialist training in the West Midlands Deanery. She is one of the few dual trained oculoplastic surgeons having done a Fellowship in Paediatric Ophthalmology at the Birmingham Children’s Hospital and Oculoplastics Fellowships at Leicester and Moorfields. Visiting Fellowships to Philadelphia and Toronto further enhanced her paediatric oculoplastic experience.
She conducts a popular annual oculoplastic cadaveric dissection course in Nottingham along with colleagues from the East Midlands. Mrs Tambe supervises the Nottingham Oculoplastic Fellowship programme with her colleagues. She is the joint head of service for the Department of Ophthalmology in Nottingham. She currently chairs the Ophthalmic League of friends Charity, of the Queens Medical Centre, which she is very passionate about.
Chaired by:
Michèle Beaconsfield FRCOphth FEBO
Consultant Surgeon Adnexal Service Moorfields Eye Hospital, London
Qualified from Charing Cross Hospital 1979; Adnexal training with Messrs Collin, Welham & Wright; Oculoplastic Fellowship with Richard Collin 1988.
Consultant Ophthalmic & Oculoplastic Surgeon since 1991 with particular interest in surgical rehabilitation (ocular cicatricial disease, thyroid ophthalmopathy, facial palsy, tumour defect reconstruction). Created the specialised Lid Oncology service at Moorfields over 10 years ago which runs with consultant surgeons and Mohs specialists, a dedicated Fellow, a Cancer Nurse Specialist, and works with a multidisciplinary team of oncologists, radiologists, pathologists, maxillofacial and plastic surgeons.
Was Examiner for the Royal College of Ophthalmologists and the European Board of Ophthalmology for 20 years; also Educational supervisor and Trainee mentor. Now chairs newly established ESOPRS examination board.
Mrs Katya Tambe is an adult and paediatric oculoplastic consultant at the Nottingham University Teaching Hospitals. She has a keen interest in paediatric oculoplastics, facial nerve palsy and peri-ocular reconstructions. She runs a busy paediatric oculoplastic service at NUH and works closely with the Moh’s surgeons in the reconstructions following periocular tumour excisions.
In the private sector she performs surgical blepharoplasties and the full range of oculoplastic surgery, specialising in personalised aesthetic surgery with a focus on natural outcomes.
Mrs Tambe trained in India where she received the gold medal for Ophthalmology at the Diplomate of National Board examinations. She then completed her specialist training in the West Midlands Deanery. She is one of the few dual trained oculoplastic surgeons having done a Fellowship in Paediatric Ophthalmology at the Birmingham Children’s Hospital and Oculoplastics Fellowships at Leicester and Moorfields. Visiting Fellowships to Philadelphia and Toronto further enhanced her paediatric oculoplastic experience.
She conducts a popular annual oculoplastic cadaveric dissection course in Nottingham along with colleagues from the East Midlands. Mrs Tambe supervises the Nottingham Oculoplastic Fellowship programme with her colleagues. She is the joint head of service for the Department of Ophthalmology in Nottingham. She currently chairs the Ophthalmic League of friends Charity, of the Queens Medical Centre, which she is very passionate about.
Miss Sarah Osborne is a Consultant Ophthalmic Oculoplastic Surgeon and provides a regional NHS oculoplastic, lacrimal, trauma and orbital service as part of the Moorfields at St Georges team. She often works with the head and neck multidisciplinary team and works closely with the maxillofacial and ENT services in order to provide multidisciplinary care to patients. St Georges is a major trauma centre she often deals with trauma patients and provides follow-up reconstructive care.
After completing her general ophthalmology training Miss Osborne undertook sub-speciality oculoplastic training at Manchester Eye Hospital, spent a year in New Zealand as an oculoplastic and lacrimal fellow and a further year as an oculoplastic, lacrimal and orbital fellow at Moorfields Eye Hospital
Michèle Beaconsfield FRCOphth FEBO
Consultant Surgeon Adnexal Service Moorfields Eye Hospital, London
Qualified from Charing Cross Hospital 1979; Adnexal training with Messrs Collin, Welham & Wright; Oculoplastic Fellowship with Richard Collin 1988.
Consultant Ophthalmic & Oculoplastic Surgeon since 1991 with particular interest in surgical rehabilitation (ocular cicatricial disease, thyroid ophthalmopathy, facial palsy, tumour defect reconstruction). Created the specialised Lid Oncology service at Moorfields over 10 years ago which runs with consultant surgeons and Mohs specialists, a dedicated Fellow, a Cancer Nurse Specialist, and works with a multidisciplinary team of oncologists, radiologists, pathologists, maxillofacial and plastic surgeons.
Was Examiner for the Royal College of Ophthalmologists and the European Board of Ophthalmology for 20 years; also Educational supervisor and Trainee mentor. Now chairs newly established ESOPRS examination board.
Chaired by:
Miss Joyce Burns, Leicester
Joyce Burns has been consultant ophthalmologist and oculoplastic surgeon since 2005. She works at the Leicester Royal Infirmary, a tertiary referral centre for lid, lacrimal and orbital disease, having completed ophthalmology training in Merseyside and the East Midlands before fellowships at Leicester and Nottingham.
She has a special interest in ocular prosthetics, undertaking a twice monthly joint clinic with a senior prosthetist from the National Artificial Eye Service, and has twice been invited speaker for at the annual Prosthetists Conference in Blackpool. She is passionate about promoting a wider understanding of ocular prostheses, speaking on the topic at the national optometry conference and the Nottingham Paediatric Oculoplastics meeting. She is currently working with local providers to develop a practical course for patients with newly acquired monocular vision.
She was joint developer of the Leicester Peripheral Field test used to demonstrate the visual defects generated by ptosis or dermatochalasis, presenting the work in the UK (BOPSS 2011) and the USA (ASOPRS 2012). She was also co-author of the BOPSS 2013 paper prize for a 10 year study looking at the risk of BCC recurrence based on histological subtype.
Prof. Bita Esmaeli, Texas, USA
Dr Bita Esmaeli is a Professor and Fellowship Program Director for Ophthalmic Plastic Surgery in the Department of Plastic Surgery at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, where she has had an orbital oncology and oncologic ophthalmic plastic surgery practice since 1998.
Dr Esmaeli’s practice focus is surgical treatment of orbital tumors, lacrimal gland carcinomas, eyelid cancers, melanoma of eyelid and conjunctiva, and reconstructive surgery in the periocular region including lacrimal surgery. Her research interests include early detection of metastasis, multi-disciplinary eye sparing approaches, and molecular targets for treatment for ocular and orbital cancers.
Dr Esmaeli has authored over 210 peer-reviewed manuscripts, over 55 invited articles and book chapters, and has spearheaded numerous clinical trials and research protocols at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. She teaches widely throughout the world and is a frequent guest speaker at international meetings. She has received many prestigious awards and honors including the Merrill Reeh Pathology Award and the Research Award from the American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, the American Academy of Ophthalmology Senior Achievement Award, Best Doctors in America, and Top Doctors Award. Dr Esmaeli is a member of the American Ophthalmologic Society.
Miss Joyce Burns, Leicester
Joyce Burns has been consultant ophthalmologist and oculoplastic surgeon since 2005. She works at the Leicester Royal Infirmary, a tertiary referral centre for lid, lacrimal and orbital disease, having completed ophthalmology training in Merseyside and the East Midlands before fellowships at Leicester and Nottingham.
She has a special interest in ocular prosthetics, undertaking a twice monthly joint clinic with a senior prosthetist from the National Artificial Eye Service, and has twice been invited speaker for at the annual Prosthetists Conference in Blackpool. She is passionate about promoting a wider understanding of ocular prostheses, speaking on the topic at the national optometry conference and the Nottingham Paediatric Oculoplastics meeting. She is currently working with local providers to develop a practical course for patients with newly acquired monocular vision.
She was joint developer of the Leicester Peripheral Field test used to demonstrate the visual defects generated by ptosis or dermatochalasis, presenting the work in the UK (BOPSS 2011) and the USA (ASOPRS 2012). She was also co-author of the BOPSS 2013 paper prize for a 10 year study looking at the risk of BCC recurrence based on histological subtype.
Prof. Bita Esmaeli, Texas, USA
Dr Bita Esmaeli is a Professor and Fellowship Program Director for Ophthalmic Plastic Surgery in the Department of Plastic Surgery at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, where she has had an orbital oncology and oncologic ophthalmic plastic surgery practice since 1998.
Dr Esmaeli’s practice focus is surgical treatment of orbital tumors, lacrimal gland carcinomas, eyelid cancers, melanoma of eyelid and conjunctiva, and reconstructive surgery in the periocular region including lacrimal surgery. Her research interests include early detection of metastasis, multi-disciplinary eye sparing approaches, and molecular targets for treatment for ocular and orbital cancers.
Dr Esmaeli has authored over 210 peer-reviewed manuscripts, over 55 invited articles and book chapters, and has spearheaded numerous clinical trials and research protocols at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. She teaches widely throughout the world and is a frequent guest speaker at international meetings. She has received many prestigious awards and honors including the Merrill Reeh Pathology Award and the Research Award from the American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, the American Academy of Ophthalmology Senior Achievement Award, Best Doctors in America, and Top Doctors Award. Dr Esmaeli is a member of the American Ophthalmologic Society.
Rebecca Ford is a consultant oculoplastic and orbital surgeon at Bristol Eye Hospital, where she is also co-Clinical Director. She trained in internal medicine in Plymouth and ophthalmology in London, followed by oculoplastics fellowship training in Birmingham. Current research interests include IgG4-related orbital disease, best practice in eyelid malposition, and thyroid eye disease.
Rebecca has a special interest in medical education; she was a London Deanery Fellow in Medical Education and completed her Masters degree in surgical education at Imperial College London. She is a member of the RCOphth Education Committee and College Lead for e-learning, and leads the ‘Training the Trainers’ international program. She is also the lead examiner for the International Council of Ophthalmology Oculoplastics Subspecialty Exam. Rebecca is the current chair of the Thyroid Eye Disease Charitable Trust, a charity dedicated to supporting patients with thyroid eye disease and promoting research into this condition.
Miss Lucy Clarke, Newcastle
Lucy Clarke is clinical lead for the oculoplastics department at Newcastle Eye Centre and head of the regional orbital service. Raised as a surgeon in the north east her ocuolpastic skills were refined by fellowships in Newcastle, Nottingham and Manchester. She is also head of the Eye Emergency Department.
Mr Jason Watson, Consultant Clinical Scientist, Nottingham
Jason Watson has worked in Reconstructive Science for 28 years at 2 large teaching Hospitals in Sheffield and Nottingham (2001-2019). He developed the first in-house NHS based 3D printing service in Nottingham in 2008 and has published over 25 articles in peer reviewed international journals.
Jason plays an active role in his professional body and has written two educational curricula in conjunction with the Modernising Scientific Careers (DoH) and RCS England for Scientist level (MSc) and Consultant (Clinical Doctorate level) training.
Jason has presented at many international meetings and is passionate about his job and loves teaching others about his field of work.
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Mrs Katya Tambe is an adult and paediatric oculoplastic consultant at the Nottingham University Teaching Hospitals. She has a keen interest in paediatric oculoplastics, facial nerve palsy and peri-ocular reconstructions. She runs a busy paediatric oculoplastic service at NUH and works closely with the Moh’s surgeons in the reconstructions following periocular tumour excisions.
In the private sector she performs surgical blepharoplasties and the full range of oculoplastic surgery, specialising in personalised aesthetic surgery with a focus on natural outcomes.
Mrs Tambe trained in India where she received the gold medal for Ophthalmology at the Diplomate of National Board examinations. She then completed her specialist training in the West Midlands Deanery. She is one of the few dual trained oculoplastic surgeons having done a Fellowship in Paediatric Ophthalmology at the Birmingham Children’s Hospital and Oculoplastics Fellowships at Leicester and Moorfields. Visiting Fellowships to Philadelphia and Toronto further enhanced her paediatric oculoplastic experience.
She conducts a popular annual oculoplastic cadaveric dissection course in Nottingham along with colleagues from the East Midlands. Mrs Tambe supervises the Nottingham Oculoplastic Fellowship programme with her colleagues. She is the joint head of service for the Department of Ophthalmology in Nottingham. She currently chairs the Ophthalmic League of friends Charity, of the Queens Medical Centre, which she is very passionate about.
Manoj Parulekar is a Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon at the Birmingham Childrens Hospital and the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust.
Mr Parulekar is involved in clinical and basic science research, collaborating with biomedical scientists and other academics in UK and abroad to develop and evaluate new treatments and diagnostic tests for a variety of eye conditions. He is Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham.
Mr Parulekar has a major interest in international ophthalmology, contributing to and learning from ophthalmic services in developing countries. He is a trustee of Sightsavers International, a charity dealing with prevention and treatment of blindness. He is involved with the Vision 2020 links programme and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, developing ophthalmology services in Africa (Tanzania).
Mr Parulekar contributes actively to the Royal College of Ophthalmologists and is program secretary, scientific committee and paediatric sub-committee member, and on the microsurgical training faculty. He is treasurer of the
Oxford Ophthalmological Congress.
Manoj Parulekar is a Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon at the Birmingham Childrens Hospital and the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust.
Mr Parulekar is involved in clinical and basic science research, collaborating with biomedical scientists and other academics in UK and abroad to develop and evaluate new treatments and diagnostic tests for a variety of eye conditions. He is Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham.
Mr Parulekar has a major interest in international ophthalmology, contributing to and learning from ophthalmic services in developing countries. He is a trustee of Sightsavers International, a charity dealing with prevention and treatment of blindness. He is involved with the Vision 2020 links programme and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, developing ophthalmology services in Africa (Tanzania).
Mr Parulekar contributes actively to the Royal College of Ophthalmologists and is program secretary, scientific committee and paediatric sub-committee member, and on the microsurgical training faculty. He is treasurer of the
Oxford Ophthalmological Congress.
Dr. Quaranta-Leoni is the Director of the Adnexal and Orbital Service in the Dept. of Ophthalmology of Villa Tiberia Hospital in Rome and has a commitment to teaching, actively participating in residents training in adnexal disease.
He is the President Elect of ESOPRS, Past President and Past Secretary of SICOP (Italian Oculoplastic Surgery Society), International Associate Member of ASOPRS.
He attended Medical School at Catholic University of Rome – A. Gemelli Hospital, graduating with first-class honors in 1988. His postgraduate ophthalmic training was undertaken at the Department of Ophthalmology of Catholic University of Rome. He was awarded the Diploma of Ophthalmology with first-class honors in 1992 and undertook further training in Strabismus Surgery under the care of late Prof. Bruno Bagolini in 1992-1994.
Dr. Quaranta-Leoni attended a two-year Fellowship in Oculoplastic, Lacrimal and Orbital Surgery at Moorfields Eye Hospital – Londonin 1995-97 under the care of John Wright, Richard Collin, Geoffrey Rose and Michèle Beaconsfield. In 2014 he has been chosen to receive the ASOPRS Merrill Reeh Pathology Awardfor his work on: Management of Porous Orbital Implants Requiring Explantation: A Clinical and Histopathological Study. OPRS, 30(2):132-136, 2014.
His fields of interest are socket surgery, paediatric oculoplastic surgery, eyelid and orbital tumours, lacrimal surgery, thyroid eye disease.
He is married with two children and speaks fluent English, Italian, Spanish and French.
Asst. Prof. Andrea Kossler, Stanford, USA
Andrea Lora Kossler, MD, is Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at Stanford University School of Medicine and Director of the Ophthalmic Plastic, Reconstructive Surgery and Orbital Oncology Service at the Byers Eye Institute at Stanford. She specializes in plastic and reconstructive surgery of the forehead, mid-face, and eyes and has a special interest in aesthetic medicine and thyroid eye disease. Andrea has been in practice for over 8 years and treats adults and children with oculoplastic conditions. Dr. Kossler’s research interests include thyroid eye disease, orbital oncology, and neurostimulation for ocular surface disease.
Andrea is the Co-Director of the Thyroid Eye Disease Center at Stanford Hospital Center where she works together with a multidisciplinary team including an endocrinologist and radiation oncologist to provide patient centered care to patients diagnosed with thyroid eye disease. She is also the Director of the Stanford Aesthetic Eye Surgery Center where she specializes in cosmetic surgery and aesthetic treatments of the eyelids and face.
She earned her medical degree from Georgetown University School of Medicine where she graduated summa cum laude and valedictorian of her class. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Florida where she graduated with highest honors. She completed her internship in internal medicine at the Mount Sinai Medical Center and her residency in Ophthalmology at the number one ranked Bascom Palmer Eye Institute at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. She continued at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute to complete a fellowship in Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive surgery and served as a Clinic Instructor of Ophthalmology.
Outside of work Andrea enjoys time with her husband, two daughters and dog Roxy.
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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.
Prof. Gangadhara Sundar, Singapore
Dr Ganga obtained his degrees from Madras Medical College, postgraduate ophthalmology training from the Regional Institute of Ophthalmology & Govt Ophthalmic Hospital, Chennai, India followed by a residency and advanced subspecialty training from the Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, USA. He specializes in the diseases and surgery of the Eyelids, Lacrimal system, Orbit & Oculofacial diseases and Ophthalmic Oncology. Committed to clinical and surgical excellence, he is a regional and international expert in disorders such as orbital trauma, ophthalmic oncology, congential and acquired eyelid disorders, lacrimal system disorders, anophthalmic sockets, thyroid eye disease, facial palsy and esthetic orbito-facial rejuvenation (tissue fillers, Botox, blepharoplasty, brow & midface lifts). Some special interests include minimally invasive surgery (eg. endoluminal duct recanalization (ELDR)), complex orbital trauma reconstructions (navigation surgery, bioresorbable implants and customized implants), medical and surgical rehabilitation of thyroid eye disease, and vascular lesions of the orbit.
Dr Ganga was instrumental in starting various multidisciplinary services including the NUH Retinoblastoma service (with pediatric oncologists, neuro-interventional radiologists and pathologists), NUH Thyroid Eye Disease service (with Endocrinologists & immunologists) and the NUH Lacrimal service (with Rhinologists). He has trained Fellows from Singapore, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, India, Thailand, Iran, Syria & the United Kingdom.
He travels widely in Southeast Asia, AsiaPacific and as an international faculty at various orbital and craniomaxillofacial conferences, symposia and courses raising the level of care of orbital and orbitofacial disorder and has contributed chapters to several textbooks in his field. He serves in several leadership capacities in various national, regional and international professional societies.
Consultant Ophthalmic and Oculoplastic Surgeon Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead, UK
Raman Malhotra is a Consultant Ophthalmic and Oculoplastic surgeon at The Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, East Grinstead.
His specialist interests include facial nerve palsy rehabilitation, reconstructive eyelid and orbital surgery, endonasal lacrimal surgery and aesthetic eyelid rejuvenation. He also runs a fellowship training programme.
Mr Malhotra graduated in medicine and surgery from the University of Bristol, completed his basic ophthalmic surgical training at the Western Eye Hospital in London and went on to higher surgical training in Oxford. He undertook fellowship training in Adelaide, Australia, in 2002 before returning to the UK to take up consultant post at the Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead.
Prof. Gangadhara Sundar, Singapore
Dr Ganga obtained his degrees from Madras Medical College, postgraduate ophthalmology training from the Regional Institute of Ophthalmology & Govt Ophthalmic Hospital, Chennai, India followed by a residency and advanced subspecialty training from the Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, USA. He specializes in the diseases and surgery of the Eyelids, Lacrimal system, Orbit & Oculofacial diseases and Ophthalmic Oncology. Committed to clinical and surgical excellence, he is a regional and international expert in disorders such as orbital trauma, ophthalmic oncology, congential and acquired eyelid disorders, lacrimal system disorders, anophthalmic sockets, thyroid eye disease, facial palsy and esthetic orbito-facial rejuvenation (tissue fillers, Botox, blepharoplasty, brow & midface lifts). Some special interests include minimally invasive surgery (eg. endoluminal duct recanalization (ELDR)), complex orbital trauma reconstructions (navigation surgery, bioresorbable implants and customized implants), medical and surgical rehabilitation of thyroid eye disease, and vascular lesions of the orbit.
Dr Ganga was instrumental in starting various multidisciplinary services including the NUH Retinoblastoma service (with pediatric oncologists, neuro-interventional radiologists and pathologists), NUH Thyroid Eye Disease service (with Endocrinologists & immunologists) and the NUH Lacrimal service (with Rhinologists). He has trained Fellows from Singapore, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, India, Thailand, Iran, Syria & the United Kingdom.
He travels widely in Southeast Asia, AsiaPacific and as an international faculty at various orbital and craniomaxillofacial conferences, symposia and courses raising the level of care of orbital and orbitofacial disorder and has contributed chapters to several textbooks in his field. He serves in several leadership capacities in various national, regional and international professional societies.
Mr. Raghavan Sampath is a Consultant Lid, Lacrimal and Orbit Surgeon and Hon Associate Professor at University Hospitals of Leicester, U.K. since 2000.
He runs a busy tertiary referral centre at the teaching hospital. His unit has won various awards at national/international meetings. He has presented/conducted invited courses/symposia including live surgical demonstrations at various international meetings including Europe/America/Middle east/ Pakistan/India. His unit has more than 50 publications/book chapters (peer reviewed) to its credit. His unit is one of the few in the UK to have a fully funded Royal College recognised lid/lacrimal/orbit fellowship. He completed his ophthalmic training at Manchester and Southeast Thames rotation including Kings College Hospital. He did his lid, lacrimal and orbit fellowships at Manchester and Moorfields under the guidance of many including Richard Collin and Geoff Rose
In addition to his university hospital commitment he also has a busy private practice in the field in England. He also has set up a Lid, Lacrimal and Orbit centre at Rajan Eye Care Hospital, Chennai, India to which he visits every 6 months spending atleast a week to operate on patients and conduct teaching and training. His recent innovations include the Leicester Chopper for cataract surgery (2009 – available through Altomed) no financial interest, Leicester VF testing for upper lid pathology(2010 with JB) – now incorporated in the Zeiss Humphreys VF software , Leicester Suture technique for lower lid tarsal ectropion (2010), Leicester Lasoo technique for lateral canthus fixation (2012)
He is one of the few UK ophthalmologists to open a group practice private ambulatory centre (The Stoneygate Eye Hospital 2011). He has trained more than 30 ophthalmologists/oculoplastic surgeons so far who have all become consultant ophthalmic surgeons in the UK including at teaching hospitals.
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.
Day 1
Thursday morning at 7 am – JUST TURN UP
Meet Giorgio at the Arboretum Waverley Street Entranceentrance NG7 4HF. Advertised route has changed as park is closed. There will be pacesetters / route guides. You can use public shower in Maudsley Building which is open from 7.30 am. New route
Table 1 Eyelid: (Naresh Joshi, Tristan McMullan, Bernie Chang)
Table 2 Lacrimal: (Geoff Rose, Lorraine Abercrombie, Andrea Kossler)
Table 3 Paediatric oculoplastics: (Francesco Quaranta-Leoni, Katya Tambe, Richard Collin)
Table 4 Orbit: (Raghavan Sampath, Bita Esmaeli, Gangadhara Sundar)
Table 5 Socket: (Joyce Burns, Zanna Currie, Aidan Murray)
Table 6 Aesthetic: (Raman Malhotra, Milind Naik, Rachna Murthy)
Welcome, housekeeping and introductions
Clinicopathological analysis of malignant eyelid and adenexal tumours presenting in a tertiary eye hospital of Eastern Nepal – Dr Prerna Arjyal Kafle, Biratnagar Eye Hospital, Nepal
Mr Naresh Joshi is Consultant Oculoplastic surgeon at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Trust London and Honorary Consultant to the Royal Marsden. He is an Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London.
He is a founder member of the British Ophthalmic Plastic surgical Society (BOPSS), and a past president of the society. Other memberships include BAAPS , ASOPRS, APSOPRS .
Currently, he represents the Royal College of Ophthalmologists on the BSI (British Standards Institute) and CEN (Communite European Normalization) committees for the regulation of safety in aesthetic procedures. He has an interest in periocular aestheic surgery.
Chaired by: Mr. Jeremy Bowyer & Mr. Harpreet Ahluwalia
9.15 am
Eyelid skin trichilemmoma and underlying malignancy: Is an aggressive treatment necessary? 101
Christine Anggun Putri, Sheffield – (abstract)
9.20 am
Three year disease-free outcome in all non-melanomoutous skin cancers excised with 1mm margins and same-day reconstruction in a district general hospital 102
Jonathan Roos, Ipswich – (abstract)
9.25 am
Can upper lid everting surgery improve dry eye symptoms in patients with Meibomian gland inversion not responding to treatment? 103
Emma Samia-Aly, Coventry – (abstract)
9.30 am
Canalicular Antibiotic Ointment Loading: Primary Management option for management of Canaliculitis 104
Sonam Nisar, Sankara Nethralaya – (abstract)
9.35 am
Comparative survival of Stoploss Lester Jones Tubes (SLJT) and Lester Jones Tubes (LJT) 105
Kailun Jiang, London – (abstract)
9.40 am
Methodology of functional lacrimal MRI imaging 106
Valerie Juniat Brighton – (abstract)
9.45 am
Is it time to consider new treatments for ocular chemical burns? 107
Romeela Rana-Rahman, Middlesbrough – (abstract)
9.50 am
Management of Microphthalmia with Cyst over a Twenty-Year Period 108
Sri Gore, London – (abstract)
9.55 am
Keratopigmentation for phthisical eyes, an alternative to ocular prosthesis: outcomes in a series of 234 eyes 109
Maria Alejandra Amesty, Alicante – (abstract)
10.00 am
Periosteal grafts for Fornix reconstruction 110
Katja Ullrich, East Grinstead – (abstract)
10.05 am
Evisceration with intra-scleral acrylic implant and scleral autograft: a modified surgical technique 111
Paul Rainsbury, Portsmouth – (abstract)
10.10 am
Retro-caruncular Medical Canthal Tendon Plication and Lower Lid Suture Sling with Retractor recession – A narrated surgical video 112
Katja Ullrich, East Grinstead – (abstract)
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Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon Moorfields Eye Hospital
Geoffrey Rose graduated as Bachelor of Science in Pharmacology, with first-class honours, in 1976. He qualified in Medicine at King’s College Hospital, London, in 1979 and subsequently gained experience in Internal Medicine with award of Membership of the Royal College of Physicians in 1982. Postgraduate ophthalmic training was undertaken at King’s College Hospital, St Thomas Hospital and Moorfields Eye Hospital, with award of Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1985 and the Royal College of Ophthalmologists at its foundation in 1988. In 1990 the University of London granted an MS doctorate for his research on corneal endothelial changes after cataract surgery and, in 2004, awarded him a Doctor of Science in Ophthalmology and Ophthalmic Surgery.
Appointed as consultant surgeon to Moorfields Eye Hospital in 1990, Geoffrey Rose has served as Director of the Adnexal Service, and is currently the senior consultant specialising in orbital and lacrimal diseases. The unique clinical case-mix at Moorfields has provided opportunity for widespread research interests and publication of over 200 papers and 30 chapters on adnexal disease. He lectures widely at national and international level, has presented various named and guest lectures. In 2004, he was awarded the Lester Jones Anatomy Award of the American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (of which he is an honorary fellow). Professor Rose is a Senior Research Fellow of the Biomedical Research Centre of the Institute of Ophthalmology with University College, London.
Professor Rose is President Elect for the European Society of Oculoplastic and Reconstructive Surgeons, and for 8 years served as the British Council member of this group. He is also a Past-President of the British Oculo-Plastic Surgical Society.
Colin Vize is a consultant Oculoplastic Surgeon and Senior Lecturer at Hull Royal Infirmary.
He has been an ever present at BOPSS since its inception and is enjoying the role of BOPSS Honorary Secretary.
Asst. Prof. Andrea Kossler, Stanford, USA
Andrea Lora Kossler, MD, is Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at Stanford University School of Medicine and Director of the Ophthalmic Plastic, Reconstructive Surgery and Orbital Oncology Service at the Byers Eye Institute at Stanford. She specializes in plastic and reconstructive surgery of the forehead, mid-face, and eyes and has a special interest in aesthetic medicine and thyroid eye disease. Andrea has been in practice for over 8 years and treats adults and children with oculoplastic conditions. Dr. Kossler’s research interests include thyroid eye disease, orbital oncology, and neurostimulation for ocular surface disease.
Andrea is the Co-Director of the Thyroid Eye Disease Center at Stanford Hospital Center where she works together with a multidisciplinary team including an endocrinologist and radiation oncologist to provide patient centered care to patients diagnosed with thyroid eye disease. She is also the Director of the Stanford Aesthetic Eye Surgery Center where she specializes in cosmetic surgery and aesthetic treatments of the eyelids and face.
She earned her medical degree from Georgetown University School of Medicine where she graduated summa cum laude and valedictorian of her class. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Florida where she graduated with highest honors. She completed her internship in internal medicine at the Mount Sinai Medical Center and her residency in Ophthalmology at the number one ranked Bascom Palmer Eye Institute at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. She continued at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute to complete a fellowship in Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive surgery and served as a Clinic Instructor of Ophthalmology.
Outside of work Andrea enjoys time with her husband, two daughters and dog Roxy.
Giorgio Albanese is the newly appointed Oculoplastic and Orbital Consultant at Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, one of the largest teaching hospitals in the UK. Giorgio has been working as Senior Fellow in Oculoplastic and Orbital Surgery at University Hospitals of Leicester and he was the former Oculoplastics Fellow at Nottingham University Hospitals, where he gained extensive experience across the full range of eyelid, lacrimal, reconstructive, orbital and paediatric oculoplastic surgery.
Giorgio has spent most of his training between Italy, USA and UK where he decided to pursue his career as oculoplastic and orbital surgeon. Giorgio has developed a strong interest in clinical research, as clearly reflected by his publications in peer-reviewed journals. He is also reviewer for the European Journal of Ophthalmology and member of the Italian Society of Oculoplastic Surgery (SICOP). Giorgio has attended as speaker many national and international meetings, including BOPSS and ESOPRS.
Giorgio is an avid runner with a background as 400mt athlete and this year he is organising the inaugural 5k BOPSS run.
Miss Helen Garrott, Bristol
Helen Garrott completed her ophthalmology training at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital in Melbourne, Australia before undertaking oculoplastic and orbital fellowships in Bristol and at Moorfields Eye Hospital. She has worked as an oculoplastic consultant at Bristol Eye Hospital since 2010 and performs a wide range of oculoplastic, orbital and lacrimal surgery. She has a special interest in thyroid eye disease and was formerly Chairman of the Thyroid Eye Disease Charitable Trust.
Her extracurricular interests include squash, oil and watercolour painting.
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Mrs Katya Tambe is an adult and paediatric oculoplastic consultant at the Nottingham University Teaching Hospitals. She has a keen interest in paediatric oculoplastics, facial nerve palsy and peri-ocular reconstructions. She runs a busy paediatric oculoplastic service at NUH and works closely with the Moh’s surgeons in the reconstructions following periocular tumour excisions.
In the private sector she performs surgical blepharoplasties and the full range of oculoplastic surgery, specialising in personalised aesthetic surgery with a focus on natural outcomes.
Mrs Tambe trained in India where she received the gold medal for Ophthalmology at the Diplomate of National Board examinations. She then completed her specialist training in the West Midlands Deanery. She is one of the few dual trained oculoplastic surgeons having done a Fellowship in Paediatric Ophthalmology at the Birmingham Children’s Hospital and Oculoplastics Fellowships at Leicester and Moorfields. Visiting Fellowships to Philadelphia and Toronto further enhanced her paediatric oculoplastic experience.
She conducts a popular annual oculoplastic cadaveric dissection course in Nottingham along with colleagues from the East Midlands. Mrs Tambe supervises the Nottingham Oculoplastic Fellowship programme with her colleagues. She is the joint head of service for the Department of Ophthalmology in Nottingham. She currently chairs the Ophthalmic League of friends Charity, of the Queens Medical Centre, which she is very passionate about.
Dr. Quaranta-Leoni is the Director of the Adnexal and Orbital Service in the Dept. of Ophthalmology of Villa Tiberia Hospital in Rome and has a commitment to teaching, actively participating in residents training in adnexal disease.
He is the President Elect of ESOPRS, Past President and Past Secretary of SICOP (Italian Oculoplastic Surgery Society), International Associate Member of ASOPRS.
He attended Medical School at Catholic University of Rome – A. Gemelli Hospital, graduating with first-class honors in 1988. His postgraduate ophthalmic training was undertaken at the Department of Ophthalmology of Catholic University of Rome. He was awarded the Diploma of Ophthalmology with first-class honors in 1992 and undertook further training in Strabismus Surgery under the care of late Prof. Bruno Bagolini in 1992-1994.
Dr. Quaranta-Leoni attended a two-year Fellowship in Oculoplastic, Lacrimal and Orbital Surgery at Moorfields Eye Hospital – Londonin 1995-97 under the care of John Wright, Richard Collin, Geoffrey Rose and Michèle Beaconsfield. In 2014 he has been chosen to receive the ASOPRS Merrill Reeh Pathology Awardfor his work on: Management of Porous Orbital Implants Requiring Explantation: A Clinical and Histopathological Study. OPRS, 30(2):132-136, 2014.
His fields of interest are socket surgery, paediatric oculoplastic surgery, eyelid and orbital tumours, lacrimal surgery, thyroid eye disease.
He is married with two children and speaks fluent English, Italian, Spanish and French.
Prof. Gangadhara Sundar, Singapore
Dr Ganga obtained his degrees from Madras Medical College, postgraduate ophthalmology training from the Regional Institute of Ophthalmology & Govt Ophthalmic Hospital, Chennai, India followed by a residency and advanced subspecialty training from the Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, USA. He specializes in the diseases and surgery of the Eyelids, Lacrimal system, Orbit & Oculofacial diseases and Ophthalmic Oncology. Committed to clinical and surgical excellence, he is a regional and international expert in disorders such as orbital trauma, ophthalmic oncology, congential and acquired eyelid disorders, lacrimal system disorders, anophthalmic sockets, thyroid eye disease, facial palsy and esthetic orbito-facial rejuvenation (tissue fillers, Botox, blepharoplasty, brow & midface lifts). Some special interests include minimally invasive surgery (eg. endoluminal duct recanalization (ELDR)), complex orbital trauma reconstructions (navigation surgery, bioresorbable implants and customized implants), medical and surgical rehabilitation of thyroid eye disease, and vascular lesions of the orbit.
Dr Ganga was instrumental in starting various multidisciplinary services including the NUH Retinoblastoma service (with pediatric oncologists, neuro-interventional radiologists and pathologists), NUH Thyroid Eye Disease service (with Endocrinologists & immunologists) and the NUH Lacrimal service (with Rhinologists). He has trained Fellows from Singapore, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, India, Thailand, Iran, Syria & the United Kingdom.
He travels widely in Southeast Asia, AsiaPacific and as an international faculty at various orbital and craniomaxillofacial conferences, symposia and courses raising the level of care of orbital and orbitofacial disorder and has contributed chapters to several textbooks in his field. He serves in several leadership capacities in various national, regional and international professional societies.
Chaired by: Mr. Cornelius René & Mr. Soupramanien Sandramouli
1.45 pm
Conjunctival Sparing Ptosis Correction by white-line advancement technique 113
Fatima Habroosh, Abu Dhabi – (abstract)
1.50 pm
Naturally Looking Dynamic Skin Crease in Incisional Asian Blepharoplasty 114
Chung Nen Chua, Kuala Lumpur – (abstract)
1.55 pm
Transcanthal lateral canthopexy for correction of lower lid ectropion and entropion 115
Sohraab Yadav, Crewe – (abstract)
2.00 pm
Orbital Trauma in a Regional Orbito-facial Trauma Centre 116
Ahmed ALNAHRAWY, London – (abstract)
2.05 pm
Visual survival after open globe injury: a comparison of two prognostic models for visual outcome in a tertiary ophthalmic centre 117
Ahmed Aziz, London – (abstract)
2.10 pm
Redesigning Rundle’s curve for Thyroid Eye Disease? 118
Ahmed Alnahrawy, London – (abstract)
2.15 pm
Real-world use of non-echoplanar diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging for detection, disease monitoring and clinical decision-making in Graves’ Orbitopathy 119
Claire Feeney, London – (abstract)
2.20 pm
A Survey of Current Practices by the British Oculoplastic Surgical Society and Recommendations for delivering a sustainable multidisciplinary approach to Thyroid Eye Disease (TED) in the United Kingdom 120
Vickie Lee, London – (abstract)
2.25 pm
Does Redo Optic nerve sheath fenestration have a role in preventing optic nerve function deterioration 121
Reena Kumari, Leicester – (abstract)
2.30 pm
What happens to the contralateral eye in optic nerve sheath fenestration (ONSF)? 122
Reena Kumari Leicester – (abstract)
Reconstruction of the orbit following trauma and orbital tumour excision: a 20-year perspective
Prof. Gangadhara Sundar, Singapore
Dr Ganga obtained his degrees from Madras Medical College, postgraduate ophthalmology training from the Regional Institute of Ophthalmology & Govt Ophthalmic Hospital, Chennai, India followed by a residency and advanced subspecialty training from the Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, USA. He specializes in the diseases and surgery of the Eyelids, Lacrimal system, Orbit & Oculofacial diseases and Ophthalmic Oncology. Committed to clinical and surgical excellence, he is a regional and international expert in disorders such as orbital trauma, ophthalmic oncology, congential and acquired eyelid disorders, lacrimal system disorders, anophthalmic sockets, thyroid eye disease, facial palsy and esthetic orbito-facial rejuvenation (tissue fillers, Botox, blepharoplasty, brow & midface lifts). Some special interests include minimally invasive surgery (eg. endoluminal duct recanalization (ELDR)), complex orbital trauma reconstructions (navigation surgery, bioresorbable implants and customized implants), medical and surgical rehabilitation of thyroid eye disease, and vascular lesions of the orbit.
Dr Ganga was instrumental in starting various multidisciplinary services including the NUH Retinoblastoma service (with pediatric oncologists, neuro-interventional radiologists and pathologists), NUH Thyroid Eye Disease service (with Endocrinologists & immunologists) and the NUH Lacrimal service (with Rhinologists). He has trained Fellows from Singapore, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, India, Thailand, Iran, Syria & the United Kingdom.
He travels widely in Southeast Asia, AsiaPacific and as an international faculty at various orbital and craniomaxillofacial conferences, symposia and courses raising the level of care of orbital and orbitofacial disorder and has contributed chapters to several textbooks in his field. He serves in several leadership capacities in various national, regional and international professional societies.
Old Chemistry Lab & Lecture Theatre 8
Day 2
Lecture Demonstration on fillers – Mrs. Sabrina Shah-Desai – Lecture theatre 3
Hands on workshop on orbital fracture – Prof. Gangadhara Sundar & Mr. Dilip Srinivasan – Lecture theatre 8
Mrs. Sabrina Shah-Desai, MS FRCS
London
Mrs. Sabrina Shah-Desai, is a leading Ophthalmic Plastic Reconstructive and Cosmetic Surgeon internationally recognized as an expert in non-surgical and technologically advanced cosmetic treatments, being voted as one of the Global 100 most influential aesthetic practitioners 2019.
Recognised by her peers and industry experts as a peri-orbital specialist with surgical, dermatological and aesthetic experience, she occupies a unique position globally. Her innovative effective treatments combining surgical and non-surgical modalities are based on an in-depth scientific knowledge and experience of eyelid anatomy, peri-orbital skin conditions and ethnic ageing.
In her London-based boutique clinic, she not only treats a spectrum of eyelid diseases, but also practices Cosmetic Rejuvenation treatments, ensuring the highest quality and safety standards. She has pioneered a highly effective and much sought-after tear trough filler treatment Eye-boost™ using a biplanar technique to naturally restore the delicate periorbital area. Her special interest lies in 3-Dimensional aesthetic restoration of the eyes, face, and neck, using surgery, ultrasound, threads, fillers, toxin and skin resurfacing to create natural harmonious results, which she calls the Perfect 360 ™ . She specializes Cosmetic eyelid lift surgery (Blepharoplasty), scar-less droopy eyelid correction (Ptosis) and revision surgical and non-surgical treatments.
Mrs. Shah-Desai is passionate about education and safe aesthetic treatments, and founded the Oculo-Facial Aesthetic Academy (OFAA) in 2016 to improve training standards in Aesthetic Medicine. She is a Key Opinion Leader for the Aesthetic Industry & an invited speaker at international conferences and travels the world educating surgeons & aesthetic practitioners in her innovative, minimally invasive and state of the art techniques. She has authored book chapters and many scientific paper’s and her research is published in peer reviewed medical journals and textbooks. Mrs. Sabrina Shah-Desai is member of the British Oculo Plastic Surgery Society (BOPSS), The Royal College of Surgeons (Ed), The Royal College of Ophthalmologists, Inter specialty member of British Association of Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS) and honorary member of The Association of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons of Southern Africa (APRASSA).
Prof. Gangadhara Sundar, Singapore
Dr Ganga obtained his degrees from Madras Medical College, postgraduate ophthalmology training from the Regional Institute of Ophthalmology & Govt Ophthalmic Hospital, Chennai, India followed by a residency and advanced subspecialty training from the Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, USA. He specializes in the diseases and surgery of the Eyelids, Lacrimal system, Orbit & Oculofacial diseases and Ophthalmic Oncology. Committed to clinical and surgical excellence, he is a regional and international expert in disorders such as orbital trauma, ophthalmic oncology, congential and acquired eyelid disorders, lacrimal system disorders, anophthalmic sockets, thyroid eye disease, facial palsy and esthetic orbito-facial rejuvenation (tissue fillers, Botox, blepharoplasty, brow & midface lifts). Some special interests include minimally invasive surgery (eg. endoluminal duct recanalization (ELDR)), complex orbital trauma reconstructions (navigation surgery, bioresorbable implants and customized implants), medical and surgical rehabilitation of thyroid eye disease, and vascular lesions of the orbit.
Dr Ganga was instrumental in starting various multidisciplinary services including the NUH Retinoblastoma service (with pediatric oncologists, neuro-interventional radiologists and pathologists), NUH Thyroid Eye Disease service (with Endocrinologists & immunologists) and the NUH Lacrimal service (with Rhinologists). He has trained Fellows from Singapore, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, India, Thailand, Iran, Syria & the United Kingdom.
He travels widely in Southeast Asia, AsiaPacific and as an international faculty at various orbital and craniomaxillofacial conferences, symposia and courses raising the level of care of orbital and orbitofacial disorder and has contributed chapters to several textbooks in his field. He serves in several leadership capacities in various national, regional and international professional societies.
Welcome, housekeeping and introductions
Chaired by:
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.
Consultant & Head, Ophthalmic Plastic Surgery Service,
Dr Milind Naik acquired his post-graduate training in Ophthalmology at the Christian Medical College, Vellore, India, He further completed his Ophthalmic and Facial plastic surgery fellowship at the prestigious University of California, Los Angeles in the year 2006-07. His areas of interest include Aesthetic and Facial Plastic Surgery, Thyroid Eye Disease, and Minimally Invasive Ophthalmic Plastic Surgery.
He has been awarded the Senior Achievement Award by the American Academy of Ophthalmology in the year 2015 and is a member of the American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery (ASOPRS). He served as the Vice President of the Asia Pacific Society of Ophthalmic Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery (APSOPRS) in the year 2010-12.
Dr Naik has over 200 peer-reviewed publications in International journals, and lectures extensively across the globe in the field of ophthalmic plastic surgery, and facial aesthetics. Dr Naik currently heads the Ophthalmic Plastic Surgery Services at LV Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad, India. He also serves as Associate Professor, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Rochester, New York, USA. He was recently elected as the Web Editor of AOCMF, Asia Pacific.
His extra-curricular interests include painting, 3D videography, and paperfolding. His better half, Vibhavari Naik is an Anaesthesiologist, and they have a 18 year old daughter, Jaee who is currently pursuing Medicine at St John’s medical college, Bangalore, India.
Dr Hardeep Singh Mudhar, Consultant Eye Pathologist, Sheffield
Dr Hardeep Singh Mudhar trained in medicine at Guy’s hospital medical school and Cambridge University; PhD at UCL (Neurobiology); Ophthalmology training at Queen’s Medical Centre Nottingham; Histopathology Training in Sheffield; Then rotated through all of the UK specialist ophthalmic pathology centres;
He was honorary consultant eye pathologist 2003-2004 at the Institute of Ophthalmology London; Since 2004 full time eye pathologist in Sheffield. He is visiting eye pathology professor to Wills Eye Hospital since 2016 and is on the World Health Organisation (WHO) panel for ocular tumours.
Mrs. Sabrina Shah-Desai, MS FRCS
London
Mrs. Sabrina Shah-Desai, is a leading Ophthalmic Plastic Reconstructive and Cosmetic Surgeon internationally recognized as an expert in non-surgical and technologically advanced cosmetic treatments, being voted as one of the Global 100 most influential aesthetic practitioners 2019.
Recognised by her peers and industry experts as a peri-orbital specialist with surgical, dermatological and aesthetic experience, she occupies a unique position globally. Her innovative effective treatments combining surgical and non-surgical modalities are based on an in-depth scientific knowledge and experience of eyelid anatomy, peri-orbital skin conditions and ethnic ageing.
In her London-based boutique clinic, she not only treats a spectrum of eyelid diseases, but also practices Cosmetic Rejuvenation treatments, ensuring the highest quality and safety standards. She has pioneered a highly effective and much sought-after tear trough filler treatment Eye-boost™ using a biplanar technique to naturally restore the delicate periorbital area. Her special interest lies in 3-Dimensional aesthetic restoration of the eyes, face, and neck, using surgery, ultrasound, threads, fillers, toxin and skin resurfacing to create natural harmonious results, which she calls the Perfect 360 ™ . She specializes Cosmetic eyelid lift surgery (Blepharoplasty), scar-less droopy eyelid correction (Ptosis) and revision surgical and non-surgical treatments.
Mrs. Shah-Desai is passionate about education and safe aesthetic treatments, and founded the Oculo-Facial Aesthetic Academy (OFAA) in 2016 to improve training standards in Aesthetic Medicine. She is a Key Opinion Leader for the Aesthetic Industry & an invited speaker at international conferences and travels the world educating surgeons & aesthetic practitioners in her innovative, minimally invasive and state of the art techniques. She has authored book chapters and many scientific paper’s and her research is published in peer reviewed medical journals and textbooks. Mrs. Sabrina Shah-Desai is member of the British Oculo Plastic Surgery Society (BOPSS), The Royal College of Surgeons (Ed), The Royal College of Ophthalmologists, Inter specialty member of British Association of Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS) and honorary member of The Association of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons of Southern Africa (APRASSA).
Consultant & Head, Ophthalmic Plastic Surgery Service,
Dr Milind Naik acquired his post-graduate training in Ophthalmology at the Christian Medical College, Vellore, India, He further completed his Ophthalmic and Facial plastic surgery fellowship at the prestigious University of California, Los Angeles in the year 2006-07. His areas of interest include Aesthetic and Facial Plastic Surgery, Thyroid Eye Disease, and Minimally Invasive Ophthalmic Plastic Surgery.
He has been awarded the Senior Achievement Award by the American Academy of Ophthalmology in the year 2015 and is a member of the American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery (ASOPRS). He served as the Vice President of the Asia Pacific Society of Ophthalmic Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery (APSOPRS) in the year 2010-12.
Dr Naik has over 200 peer-reviewed publications in International journals, and lectures extensively across the globe in the field of ophthalmic plastic surgery, and facial aesthetics. Dr Naik currently heads the Ophthalmic Plastic Surgery Services at LV Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad, India. He also serves as Associate Professor, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Rochester, New York, USA. He was recently elected as the Web Editor of AOCMF, Asia Pacific.
His extra-curricular interests include painting, 3D videography, and paperfolding. His better half, Vibhavari Naik is an Anaesthesiologist, and they have a 18 year old daughter, Jaee who is currently pursuing Medicine at St John’s medical college, Bangalore, India.
Chaired by:
Rebecca Ford is a consultant oculoplastic and orbital surgeon at Bristol Eye Hospital, where she is also co-Clinical Director. She trained in internal medicine in Plymouth and ophthalmology in London, followed by oculoplastics fellowship training in Birmingham. Current research interests include IgG4-related orbital disease, best practice in eyelid malposition, and thyroid eye disease.
Rebecca has a special interest in medical education; she was a London Deanery Fellow in Medical Education and completed her Masters degree in surgical education at Imperial College London. She is a member of the RCOphth Education Committee and College Lead for e-learning, and leads the ‘Training the Trainers’ international program. She is also the lead examiner for the International Council of Ophthalmology Oculoplastics Subspecialty Exam. Rebecca is the current chair of the Thyroid Eye Disease Charitable Trust, a charity dedicated to supporting patients with thyroid eye disease and promoting research into this condition.
Prof. Bita Esmaeli, Texas, USA
Dr Bita Esmaeli is a Professor and Fellowship Program Director for Ophthalmic Plastic Surgery in the Department of Plastic Surgery at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, where she has had an orbital oncology and oncologic ophthalmic plastic surgery practice since 1998.
Dr Esmaeli’s practice focus is surgical treatment of orbital tumors, lacrimal gland carcinomas, eyelid cancers, melanoma of eyelid and conjunctiva, and reconstructive surgery in the periocular region including lacrimal surgery. Her research interests include early detection of metastasis, multi-disciplinary eye sparing approaches, and molecular targets for treatment for ocular and orbital cancers.
Dr Esmaeli has authored over 210 peer-reviewed manuscripts, over 55 invited articles and book chapters, and has spearheaded numerous clinical trials and research protocols at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. She teaches widely throughout the world and is a frequent guest speaker at international meetings. She has received many prestigious awards and honors including the Merrill Reeh Pathology Award and the Research Award from the American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, the American Academy of Ophthalmology Senior Achievement Award, Best Doctors in America, and Top Doctors Award. Dr Esmaeli is a member of the American Ophthalmologic Society.
Mr. Raghavan Sampath is a Consultant Lid, Lacrimal and Orbit Surgeon and Hon Associate Professor at University Hospitals of Leicester, U.K. since 2000.
He runs a busy tertiary referral centre at the teaching hospital. His unit has won various awards at national/international meetings. He has presented/conducted invited courses/symposia including live surgical demonstrations at various international meetings including Europe/America/Middle east/ Pakistan/India. His unit has more than 50 publications/book chapters (peer reviewed) to its credit. His unit is one of the few in the UK to have a fully funded Royal College recognised lid/lacrimal/orbit fellowship. He completed his ophthalmic training at Manchester and Southeast Thames rotation including Kings College Hospital. He did his lid, lacrimal and orbit fellowships at Manchester and Moorfields under the guidance of many including Richard Collin and Geoff Rose
In addition to his university hospital commitment he also has a busy private practice in the field in England. He also has set up a Lid, Lacrimal and Orbit centre at Rajan Eye Care Hospital, Chennai, India to which he visits every 6 months spending atleast a week to operate on patients and conduct teaching and training. His recent innovations include the Leicester Chopper for cataract surgery (2009 – available through Altomed) no financial interest, Leicester VF testing for upper lid pathology(2010 with JB) – now incorporated in the Zeiss Humphreys VF software , Leicester Suture technique for lower lid tarsal ectropion (2010), Leicester Lasoo technique for lateral canthus fixation (2012)
He is one of the few UK ophthalmologists to open a group practice private ambulatory centre (The Stoneygate Eye Hospital 2011). He has trained more than 30 ophthalmologists/oculoplastic surgeons so far who have all become consultant ophthalmic surgeons in the UK including at teaching hospitals.
Chaired by: Mr. Simon Madge & Mr. Lee Stevenson
11.15 am
Rhino-orbital Mucormycosis: A Clinical Spectrum and Decision Making for Orbital Exenteration 201
Anurag Mittal, India – (abstract)
11.20 am
Clinical, radiological and histopathological diagnosis correlation in orbital biopsies: 10-year retrospective study in Bristol Eye Hopital 202
Ioana Pereni, Bristol – (abstract)
11.25 am
Orbital lymphoma: a 13-year review at a national ocular oncology centre 203
Jessica Boston, Glasgow – (abstract)
11.30 am
Computed Tomography (CT)-guided Core Needle Biopsy of Orbital Lesions 204
Bashar Bata, Sheffield – (abstract)
11.35 am
Orbital and periocular lymphoma. Experience from a UK tertiary referral centre. 205
Giorgio Albanese, Leicester – (abstract)
11.40 am
Transforming care: A Pilot Study for a Virtual Oculoplastic Clinic 206
Luke Michaels, Bolton – (abstract)
11.45 am
Funding for Oculoplastic Surgery by Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) in England: A BOPSS member survey. 207
Samantha Hunt, Bristol – (abstract)
11.50 am
CCG funding of oculoplastics- is there a postcode lottery? 208
Samantha Hunt, Bristol – (abstract)
11.55 am
A novel repair technique for porous orbital implant exposure: long-term outcome 209
Kent Chow, Australia – (abstract)
Eyeborg
A one-eyed filmmaker with a camera eye is teaming up with a young Polish Ophthalmologist to create an army of monocular cyborgs.
Rob Spence is also known as Eyeborg because he has a prosthetic eye with a wireless video camera inside. Making wireless eye cameras are tricky because of the odd and small space where the electronics go. Rob is now working with Marcin Jaworski, M.D. – Ophthalmology resident doctor and founder of Next Eye Prosthetics – to harness the predictability of 3D printed prosthetic eyes and improve the process.
Rob and Marcin discuss their methodology and further explore the fascinating world of how we will see in the future. Topics: the future of prosthetic eyes and vision, human augmentation, privacy, open sourcing, and how Rob believes everyone with a prosthetic eye should have a red LED light option.
Chaired by:
Professor Tim Briggs CBE
Professor Briggs qualified from The Royal London Hospital in 1982 with honors in surgery and a number of prizes. After his senior registrar training he was appointed to the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital as Consultant in 1992. His specialist interests are in orthopaedic oncology as well as surgery to the hip and knee. He was Medical Director at the RNOH for 15 years, ensuring a re-build and was President of the British Orthopaedic Association in 2014.
He was appointed as National Director for Clinical Quality and Efficiency for the NHS in September 2015 and has been asked to lead and roll out his GIRFT methodology, developed in orthopaedics, across all surgical and medical specialties within the provider network.
Professor Briggs was made a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2018 New Year’s Honours List for services to the surgical profession.
Professor Briggs was made National Director of Clinical Improvement for the NHS & NHSI in January 2019.
Mr. Mark Henley, Consultant Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeon, Nottingham
Keynote lecture introduced by Mr. Raghavan Sampath
Surgical and non-surgical management of locally advanced periocular cutaneous cancers
Prof. Bita Esmaeli, Texas, USA
Dr Bita Esmaeli is a Professor and Fellowship Program Director for Ophthalmic Plastic Surgery in the Department of Plastic Surgery at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, where she has had an orbital oncology and oncologic ophthalmic plastic surgery practice since 1998.
Dr Esmaeli’s practice focus is surgical treatment of orbital tumors, lacrimal gland carcinomas, eyelid cancers, melanoma of eyelid and conjunctiva, and reconstructive surgery in the periocular region including lacrimal surgery. Her research interests include early detection of metastasis, multi-disciplinary eye sparing approaches, and molecular targets for treatment for ocular and orbital cancers.
Dr Esmaeli has authored over 210 peer-reviewed manuscripts, over 55 invited articles and book chapters, and has spearheaded numerous clinical trials and research protocols at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. She teaches widely throughout the world and is a frequent guest speaker at international meetings. She has received many prestigious awards and honors including the Merrill Reeh Pathology Award and the Research Award from the American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, the American Academy of Ophthalmology Senior Achievement Award, Best Doctors in America, and Top Doctors Award. Dr Esmaeli is a member of the American Ophthalmologic Society.
Collin Fellowship – “Incidence of eyelid melanoma” – Mr John Bladen, London
BOPSS President
Chaired by:
Michèle Beaconsfield FRCOphth FEBO
Consultant Surgeon Adnexal Service Moorfields Eye Hospital, London
Qualified from Charing Cross Hospital 1979; Adnexal training with Messrs Collin, Welham & Wright; Oculoplastic Fellowship with Richard Collin 1988.
Consultant Ophthalmic & Oculoplastic Surgeon since 1991 with particular interest in surgical rehabilitation (ocular cicatricial disease, thyroid ophthalmopathy, facial palsy, tumour defect reconstruction). Created the specialised Lid Oncology service at Moorfields over 10 years ago which runs with consultant surgeons and Mohs specialists, a dedicated Fellow, a Cancer Nurse Specialist, and works with a multidisciplinary team of oncologists, radiologists, pathologists, maxillofacial and plastic surgeons.
Was Examiner for the Royal College of Ophthalmologists and the European Board of Ophthalmology for 20 years; also Educational supervisor and Trainee mentor. Now chairs newly established ESOPRS examination board.
For 3.12pm – 3.19pm + 1 min questions Miss Julia Sen
Against 3.20pm – 3.27pm + 1 min questions Mr. Tristan McMullan
Chairman’s summary & vote
Julia Sen is a Consultant Ophthalmologist, Oculoplastic, Mohs and reconstructive surgeon in the Worcestershire Acute NHS Trust.
In collaboration with her core skin cancer MDT colleagues Miss Sen has developed a single visit periocular Mohs excision and reconstruction service for patients within the three counties of Worcestershire, Gloucestershire and Herefordshire.
Miss Sen is the BOPSS representative on the multidisciplinary working party for the development of NICE guidelines for Mohs surgery and the NHS England Clinical Reference Group for skin cancer services.
Miss Sen provides surgical training to Maxillofacial surgery trainees and is a faculty member of the University of Coventry & Warwickshire Oculoplastic wetlab course. Miss Sen’s additional private practice interests also include surgical and non surgical facial aesthetics and is a faculty member of the Oculo-Facial Aesthetics Academy, London.
Mr McMullan spent 11 years training as an general ophthalmologist with extensive sub-specialisation in oculoplastics in both the UK and the USA – before becoming a Consultant in 2007. His fellowship training on both sides of the Atlantic has enabled Mr McMullan to choose the best practice and techniques from both to optimise results for both patient and surgeon. His North American training is particularly relevant to aesthetic surgery.
A Cambridge graduate with a PhD in molecular genetics Mr McMullan has retained an interest in research, both clinical and scientific. He has published numerous peer- reviewed papers and presented at national and international conferences. He jointly runs a (fully funded) adnexal fellowship at Northampton General hospital. His NHS responsibilities have included being Lead Clinician in the ophthalmology department at Northampton General Hospital and Chair of the Local Professional Network (part of NHS England).
Mr McMullan is a member of the British Oculoplastic Surgery Society and the European Society of Oculoplastic & Reconstructive Surgery (ESOPRS). He is a previous ESOPRS junior award winner. He was made a Trustee of NAB, the Northamptonshire Association for the Blind, in 2014
For 3.32pm – 3.39pm + 1 min questions Mr. Colin Vize, Hull
Against 3.40pm – 3.47pm + 1 min questions Mrs. Purnima Mehta, Birmingham
Chairman’s summary & vote
Colin Vize is a consultant Oculoplastic Surgeon and Senior Lecturer at Hull Royal Infirmary.
He has been an ever present at BOPSS since its inception and is enjoying the role of BOPSS Honorary Secretary.
Purnima Mehta is a Consultant Ophthalmologist and Oculoplastic surgeon at the University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust since 2010. She completed her higher surgical training in the West Midlands Deanery, followed by an Oculoplastic and Adnexal Fellowship at the Birmingham and Midlands Eye Centre. She has a keen interest in Thyroid eye disease, Paediatric Oculoplastics and peri-ocular reconstructive surgery. She has authored many scientific papers published in peer-reviewed journals and presented at national and international conferences. She is a reviewer for the Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive surgery journal and Orbit. As part of a multidisciplinary team, she was the Ophthalmology lead for setting up the “Coventry GCA fast track pathway” which was highly commended by the British Society of Rheumatology Best practise Award 2018 for clinical delivery.
She is passionate about education and training and organises the annual “Coventry Ophthalmic Surgery Cadaver course”. She is also faculty for the “West Midlands Emergency Surgical skills Cadaver course” and “Cranio-maxillofacial operative surgery cadaver workshop”.
She enjoys acrylic painting and runs art workshops to teach fluid acrylic painting.
New for BOPSS 2019: An opportunity for trainees (specialist trainees and fellows) to informally meet the BOPSS executive team over coffee. If you have any queries, suggestions or comments or would just like to meet the President, Secretary and Treasurer, this is your chance.
Welcome, housekeeping and introductions
Mrs Katya Tambe is an adult and paediatric oculoplastic consultant at the Nottingham University Teaching Hospitals. She has a keen interest in paediatric oculoplastics, facial nerve palsy and peri-ocular reconstructions. She runs a busy paediatric oculoplastic service at NUH and works closely with the Moh’s surgeons in the reconstructions following periocular tumour excisions.
In the private sector she performs surgical blepharoplasties and the full range of oculoplastic surgery, specialising in personalised aesthetic surgery with a focus on natural outcomes.
Mrs Tambe trained in India where she received the gold medal for Ophthalmology at the Diplomate of National Board examinations. She then completed her specialist training in the West Midlands Deanery. She is one of the few dual trained oculoplastic surgeons having done a Fellowship in Paediatric Ophthalmology at the Birmingham Children’s Hospital and Oculoplastics Fellowships at Leicester and Moorfields. Visiting Fellowships to Philadelphia and Toronto further enhanced her paediatric oculoplastic experience.
She conducts a popular annual oculoplastic cadaveric dissection course in Nottingham along with colleagues from the East Midlands. Mrs Tambe supervises the Nottingham Oculoplastic Fellowship programme with her colleagues. She is the joint head of service for the Department of Ophthalmology in Nottingham. She currently chairs the Ophthalmic League of friends Charity, of the Queens Medical Centre, which she is very passionate about.
Chaired by:
Michèle Beaconsfield FRCOphth FEBO
Consultant Surgeon Adnexal Service Moorfields Eye Hospital, London
Qualified from Charing Cross Hospital 1979; Adnexal training with Messrs Collin, Welham & Wright; Oculoplastic Fellowship with Richard Collin 1988.
Consultant Ophthalmic & Oculoplastic Surgeon since 1991 with particular interest in surgical rehabilitation (ocular cicatricial disease, thyroid ophthalmopathy, facial palsy, tumour defect reconstruction). Created the specialised Lid Oncology service at Moorfields over 10 years ago which runs with consultant surgeons and Mohs specialists, a dedicated Fellow, a Cancer Nurse Specialist, and works with a multidisciplinary team of oncologists, radiologists, pathologists, maxillofacial and plastic surgeons.
Was Examiner for the Royal College of Ophthalmologists and the European Board of Ophthalmology for 20 years; also Educational supervisor and Trainee mentor. Now chairs newly established ESOPRS examination board.
Mrs Katya Tambe is an adult and paediatric oculoplastic consultant at the Nottingham University Teaching Hospitals. She has a keen interest in paediatric oculoplastics, facial nerve palsy and peri-ocular reconstructions. She runs a busy paediatric oculoplastic service at NUH and works closely with the Moh’s surgeons in the reconstructions following periocular tumour excisions.
In the private sector she performs surgical blepharoplasties and the full range of oculoplastic surgery, specialising in personalised aesthetic surgery with a focus on natural outcomes.
Mrs Tambe trained in India where she received the gold medal for Ophthalmology at the Diplomate of National Board examinations. She then completed her specialist training in the West Midlands Deanery. She is one of the few dual trained oculoplastic surgeons having done a Fellowship in Paediatric Ophthalmology at the Birmingham Children’s Hospital and Oculoplastics Fellowships at Leicester and Moorfields. Visiting Fellowships to Philadelphia and Toronto further enhanced her paediatric oculoplastic experience.
She conducts a popular annual oculoplastic cadaveric dissection course in Nottingham along with colleagues from the East Midlands. Mrs Tambe supervises the Nottingham Oculoplastic Fellowship programme with her colleagues. She is the joint head of service for the Department of Ophthalmology in Nottingham. She currently chairs the Ophthalmic League of friends Charity, of the Queens Medical Centre, which she is very passionate about.
Miss Sarah Osborne is a Consultant Ophthalmic Oculoplastic Surgeon and provides a regional NHS oculoplastic, lacrimal, trauma and orbital service as part of the Moorfields at St Georges team. She often works with the head and neck multidisciplinary team and works closely with the maxillofacial and ENT services in order to provide multidisciplinary care to patients. St Georges is a major trauma centre she often deals with trauma patients and provides follow-up reconstructive care.
After completing her general ophthalmology training Miss Osborne undertook sub-speciality oculoplastic training at Manchester Eye Hospital, spent a year in New Zealand as an oculoplastic and lacrimal fellow and a further year as an oculoplastic, lacrimal and orbital fellow at Moorfields Eye Hospital
Michèle Beaconsfield FRCOphth FEBO
Consultant Surgeon Adnexal Service Moorfields Eye Hospital, London
Qualified from Charing Cross Hospital 1979; Adnexal training with Messrs Collin, Welham & Wright; Oculoplastic Fellowship with Richard Collin 1988.
Consultant Ophthalmic & Oculoplastic Surgeon since 1991 with particular interest in surgical rehabilitation (ocular cicatricial disease, thyroid ophthalmopathy, facial palsy, tumour defect reconstruction). Created the specialised Lid Oncology service at Moorfields over 10 years ago which runs with consultant surgeons and Mohs specialists, a dedicated Fellow, a Cancer Nurse Specialist, and works with a multidisciplinary team of oncologists, radiologists, pathologists, maxillofacial and plastic surgeons.
Was Examiner for the Royal College of Ophthalmologists and the European Board of Ophthalmology for 20 years; also Educational supervisor and Trainee mentor. Now chairs newly established ESOPRS examination board.
Chaired by:
Miss Joyce Burns, Leicester
Joyce Burns has been consultant ophthalmologist and oculoplastic surgeon since 2005. She works at the Leicester Royal Infirmary, a tertiary referral centre for lid, lacrimal and orbital disease, having completed ophthalmology training in Merseyside and the East Midlands before fellowships at Leicester and Nottingham.
She has a special interest in ocular prosthetics, undertaking a twice monthly joint clinic with a senior prosthetist from the National Artificial Eye Service, and has twice been invited speaker for at the annual Prosthetists Conference in Blackpool. She is passionate about promoting a wider understanding of ocular prostheses, speaking on the topic at the national optometry conference and the Nottingham Paediatric Oculoplastics meeting. She is currently working with local providers to develop a practical course for patients with newly acquired monocular vision.
She was joint developer of the Leicester Peripheral Field test used to demonstrate the visual defects generated by ptosis or dermatochalasis, presenting the work in the UK (BOPSS 2011) and the USA (ASOPRS 2012). She was also co-author of the BOPSS 2013 paper prize for a 10 year study looking at the risk of BCC recurrence based on histological subtype.
Prof. Bita Esmaeli, Texas, USA
Dr Bita Esmaeli is a Professor and Fellowship Program Director for Ophthalmic Plastic Surgery in the Department of Plastic Surgery at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, where she has had an orbital oncology and oncologic ophthalmic plastic surgery practice since 1998.
Dr Esmaeli’s practice focus is surgical treatment of orbital tumors, lacrimal gland carcinomas, eyelid cancers, melanoma of eyelid and conjunctiva, and reconstructive surgery in the periocular region including lacrimal surgery. Her research interests include early detection of metastasis, multi-disciplinary eye sparing approaches, and molecular targets for treatment for ocular and orbital cancers.
Dr Esmaeli has authored over 210 peer-reviewed manuscripts, over 55 invited articles and book chapters, and has spearheaded numerous clinical trials and research protocols at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. She teaches widely throughout the world and is a frequent guest speaker at international meetings. She has received many prestigious awards and honors including the Merrill Reeh Pathology Award and the Research Award from the American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, the American Academy of Ophthalmology Senior Achievement Award, Best Doctors in America, and Top Doctors Award. Dr Esmaeli is a member of the American Ophthalmologic Society.
Miss Joyce Burns, Leicester
Joyce Burns has been consultant ophthalmologist and oculoplastic surgeon since 2005. She works at the Leicester Royal Infirmary, a tertiary referral centre for lid, lacrimal and orbital disease, having completed ophthalmology training in Merseyside and the East Midlands before fellowships at Leicester and Nottingham.
She has a special interest in ocular prosthetics, undertaking a twice monthly joint clinic with a senior prosthetist from the National Artificial Eye Service, and has twice been invited speaker for at the annual Prosthetists Conference in Blackpool. She is passionate about promoting a wider understanding of ocular prostheses, speaking on the topic at the national optometry conference and the Nottingham Paediatric Oculoplastics meeting. She is currently working with local providers to develop a practical course for patients with newly acquired monocular vision.
She was joint developer of the Leicester Peripheral Field test used to demonstrate the visual defects generated by ptosis or dermatochalasis, presenting the work in the UK (BOPSS 2011) and the USA (ASOPRS 2012). She was also co-author of the BOPSS 2013 paper prize for a 10 year study looking at the risk of BCC recurrence based on histological subtype.
Prof. Bita Esmaeli, Texas, USA
Dr Bita Esmaeli is a Professor and Fellowship Program Director for Ophthalmic Plastic Surgery in the Department of Plastic Surgery at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, where she has had an orbital oncology and oncologic ophthalmic plastic surgery practice since 1998.
Dr Esmaeli’s practice focus is surgical treatment of orbital tumors, lacrimal gland carcinomas, eyelid cancers, melanoma of eyelid and conjunctiva, and reconstructive surgery in the periocular region including lacrimal surgery. Her research interests include early detection of metastasis, multi-disciplinary eye sparing approaches, and molecular targets for treatment for ocular and orbital cancers.
Dr Esmaeli has authored over 210 peer-reviewed manuscripts, over 55 invited articles and book chapters, and has spearheaded numerous clinical trials and research protocols at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. She teaches widely throughout the world and is a frequent guest speaker at international meetings. She has received many prestigious awards and honors including the Merrill Reeh Pathology Award and the Research Award from the American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, the American Academy of Ophthalmology Senior Achievement Award, Best Doctors in America, and Top Doctors Award. Dr Esmaeli is a member of the American Ophthalmologic Society.
Rebecca Ford is a consultant oculoplastic and orbital surgeon at Bristol Eye Hospital, where she is also co-Clinical Director. She trained in internal medicine in Plymouth and ophthalmology in London, followed by oculoplastics fellowship training in Birmingham. Current research interests include IgG4-related orbital disease, best practice in eyelid malposition, and thyroid eye disease.
Rebecca has a special interest in medical education; she was a London Deanery Fellow in Medical Education and completed her Masters degree in surgical education at Imperial College London. She is a member of the RCOphth Education Committee and College Lead for e-learning, and leads the ‘Training the Trainers’ international program. She is also the lead examiner for the International Council of Ophthalmology Oculoplastics Subspecialty Exam. Rebecca is the current chair of the Thyroid Eye Disease Charitable Trust, a charity dedicated to supporting patients with thyroid eye disease and promoting research into this condition.
Miss Lucy Clarke, Newcastle
Lucy Clarke is clinical lead for the oculoplastics department at Newcastle Eye Centre and head of the regional orbital service. Raised as a surgeon in the north east her ocuolpastic skills were refined by fellowships in Newcastle, Nottingham and Manchester. She is also head of the Eye Emergency Department.
Mr Jason Watson, Consultant Clinical Scientist, Nottingham
Jason Watson has worked in Reconstructive Science for 28 years at 2 large teaching Hospitals in Sheffield and Nottingham (2001-2019). He developed the first in-house NHS based 3D printing service in Nottingham in 2008 and has published over 25 articles in peer reviewed international journals.
Jason plays an active role in his professional body and has written two educational curricula in conjunction with the Modernising Scientific Careers (DoH) and RCS England for Scientist level (MSc) and Consultant (Clinical Doctorate level) training.
Jason has presented at many international meetings and is passionate about his job and loves teaching others about his field of work.
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Mrs Katya Tambe is an adult and paediatric oculoplastic consultant at the Nottingham University Teaching Hospitals. She has a keen interest in paediatric oculoplastics, facial nerve palsy and peri-ocular reconstructions. She runs a busy paediatric oculoplastic service at NUH and works closely with the Moh’s surgeons in the reconstructions following periocular tumour excisions.
In the private sector she performs surgical blepharoplasties and the full range of oculoplastic surgery, specialising in personalised aesthetic surgery with a focus on natural outcomes.
Mrs Tambe trained in India where she received the gold medal for Ophthalmology at the Diplomate of National Board examinations. She then completed her specialist training in the West Midlands Deanery. She is one of the few dual trained oculoplastic surgeons having done a Fellowship in Paediatric Ophthalmology at the Birmingham Children’s Hospital and Oculoplastics Fellowships at Leicester and Moorfields. Visiting Fellowships to Philadelphia and Toronto further enhanced her paediatric oculoplastic experience.
She conducts a popular annual oculoplastic cadaveric dissection course in Nottingham along with colleagues from the East Midlands. Mrs Tambe supervises the Nottingham Oculoplastic Fellowship programme with her colleagues. She is the joint head of service for the Department of Ophthalmology in Nottingham. She currently chairs the Ophthalmic League of friends Charity, of the Queens Medical Centre, which she is very passionate about.
Manoj Parulekar is a Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon at the Birmingham Childrens Hospital and the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust.
Mr Parulekar is involved in clinical and basic science research, collaborating with biomedical scientists and other academics in UK and abroad to develop and evaluate new treatments and diagnostic tests for a variety of eye conditions. He is Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham.
Mr Parulekar has a major interest in international ophthalmology, contributing to and learning from ophthalmic services in developing countries. He is a trustee of Sightsavers International, a charity dealing with prevention and treatment of blindness. He is involved with the Vision 2020 links programme and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, developing ophthalmology services in Africa (Tanzania).
Mr Parulekar contributes actively to the Royal College of Ophthalmologists and is program secretary, scientific committee and paediatric sub-committee member, and on the microsurgical training faculty. He is treasurer of the
Oxford Ophthalmological Congress.
Manoj Parulekar is a Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon at the Birmingham Childrens Hospital and the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust.
Mr Parulekar is involved in clinical and basic science research, collaborating with biomedical scientists and other academics in UK and abroad to develop and evaluate new treatments and diagnostic tests for a variety of eye conditions. He is Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham.
Mr Parulekar has a major interest in international ophthalmology, contributing to and learning from ophthalmic services in developing countries. He is a trustee of Sightsavers International, a charity dealing with prevention and treatment of blindness. He is involved with the Vision 2020 links programme and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, developing ophthalmology services in Africa (Tanzania).
Mr Parulekar contributes actively to the Royal College of Ophthalmologists and is program secretary, scientific committee and paediatric sub-committee member, and on the microsurgical training faculty. He is treasurer of the
Oxford Ophthalmological Congress.
Dr. Quaranta-Leoni is the Director of the Adnexal and Orbital Service in the Dept. of Ophthalmology of Villa Tiberia Hospital in Rome and has a commitment to teaching, actively participating in residents training in adnexal disease.
He is the President Elect of ESOPRS, Past President and Past Secretary of SICOP (Italian Oculoplastic Surgery Society), International Associate Member of ASOPRS.
He attended Medical School at Catholic University of Rome – A. Gemelli Hospital, graduating with first-class honors in 1988. His postgraduate ophthalmic training was undertaken at the Department of Ophthalmology of Catholic University of Rome. He was awarded the Diploma of Ophthalmology with first-class honors in 1992 and undertook further training in Strabismus Surgery under the care of late Prof. Bruno Bagolini in 1992-1994.
Dr. Quaranta-Leoni attended a two-year Fellowship in Oculoplastic, Lacrimal and Orbital Surgery at Moorfields Eye Hospital – Londonin 1995-97 under the care of John Wright, Richard Collin, Geoffrey Rose and Michèle Beaconsfield. In 2014 he has been chosen to receive the ASOPRS Merrill Reeh Pathology Awardfor his work on: Management of Porous Orbital Implants Requiring Explantation: A Clinical and Histopathological Study. OPRS, 30(2):132-136, 2014.
His fields of interest are socket surgery, paediatric oculoplastic surgery, eyelid and orbital tumours, lacrimal surgery, thyroid eye disease.
He is married with two children and speaks fluent English, Italian, Spanish and French.
Asst. Prof. Andrea Kossler, Stanford, USA
Andrea Lora Kossler, MD, is Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at Stanford University School of Medicine and Director of the Ophthalmic Plastic, Reconstructive Surgery and Orbital Oncology Service at the Byers Eye Institute at Stanford. She specializes in plastic and reconstructive surgery of the forehead, mid-face, and eyes and has a special interest in aesthetic medicine and thyroid eye disease. Andrea has been in practice for over 8 years and treats adults and children with oculoplastic conditions. Dr. Kossler’s research interests include thyroid eye disease, orbital oncology, and neurostimulation for ocular surface disease.
Andrea is the Co-Director of the Thyroid Eye Disease Center at Stanford Hospital Center where she works together with a multidisciplinary team including an endocrinologist and radiation oncologist to provide patient centered care to patients diagnosed with thyroid eye disease. She is also the Director of the Stanford Aesthetic Eye Surgery Center where she specializes in cosmetic surgery and aesthetic treatments of the eyelids and face.
She earned her medical degree from Georgetown University School of Medicine where she graduated summa cum laude and valedictorian of her class. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Florida where she graduated with highest honors. She completed her internship in internal medicine at the Mount Sinai Medical Center and her residency in Ophthalmology at the number one ranked Bascom Palmer Eye Institute at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. She continued at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute to complete a fellowship in Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive surgery and served as a Clinic Instructor of Ophthalmology.
Outside of work Andrea enjoys time with her husband, two daughters and dog Roxy.
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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.
Prof. Gangadhara Sundar, Singapore
Dr Ganga obtained his degrees from Madras Medical College, postgraduate ophthalmology training from the Regional Institute of Ophthalmology & Govt Ophthalmic Hospital, Chennai, India followed by a residency and advanced subspecialty training from the Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, USA. He specializes in the diseases and surgery of the Eyelids, Lacrimal system, Orbit & Oculofacial diseases and Ophthalmic Oncology. Committed to clinical and surgical excellence, he is a regional and international expert in disorders such as orbital trauma, ophthalmic oncology, congential and acquired eyelid disorders, lacrimal system disorders, anophthalmic sockets, thyroid eye disease, facial palsy and esthetic orbito-facial rejuvenation (tissue fillers, Botox, blepharoplasty, brow & midface lifts). Some special interests include minimally invasive surgery (eg. endoluminal duct recanalization (ELDR)), complex orbital trauma reconstructions (navigation surgery, bioresorbable implants and customized implants), medical and surgical rehabilitation of thyroid eye disease, and vascular lesions of the orbit.
Dr Ganga was instrumental in starting various multidisciplinary services including the NUH Retinoblastoma service (with pediatric oncologists, neuro-interventional radiologists and pathologists), NUH Thyroid Eye Disease service (with Endocrinologists & immunologists) and the NUH Lacrimal service (with Rhinologists). He has trained Fellows from Singapore, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, India, Thailand, Iran, Syria & the United Kingdom.
He travels widely in Southeast Asia, AsiaPacific and as an international faculty at various orbital and craniomaxillofacial conferences, symposia and courses raising the level of care of orbital and orbitofacial disorder and has contributed chapters to several textbooks in his field. He serves in several leadership capacities in various national, regional and international professional societies.
Consultant Ophthalmic and Oculoplastic Surgeon Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead, UK
Raman Malhotra is a Consultant Ophthalmic and Oculoplastic surgeon at The Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, East Grinstead.
His specialist interests include facial nerve palsy rehabilitation, reconstructive eyelid and orbital surgery, endonasal lacrimal surgery and aesthetic eyelid rejuvenation. He also runs a fellowship training programme.
Mr Malhotra graduated in medicine and surgery from the University of Bristol, completed his basic ophthalmic surgical training at the Western Eye Hospital in London and went on to higher surgical training in Oxford. He undertook fellowship training in Adelaide, Australia, in 2002 before returning to the UK to take up consultant post at the Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead.
Prof. Gangadhara Sundar, Singapore
Dr Ganga obtained his degrees from Madras Medical College, postgraduate ophthalmology training from the Regional Institute of Ophthalmology & Govt Ophthalmic Hospital, Chennai, India followed by a residency and advanced subspecialty training from the Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, USA. He specializes in the diseases and surgery of the Eyelids, Lacrimal system, Orbit & Oculofacial diseases and Ophthalmic Oncology. Committed to clinical and surgical excellence, he is a regional and international expert in disorders such as orbital trauma, ophthalmic oncology, congential and acquired eyelid disorders, lacrimal system disorders, anophthalmic sockets, thyroid eye disease, facial palsy and esthetic orbito-facial rejuvenation (tissue fillers, Botox, blepharoplasty, brow & midface lifts). Some special interests include minimally invasive surgery (eg. endoluminal duct recanalization (ELDR)), complex orbital trauma reconstructions (navigation surgery, bioresorbable implants and customized implants), medical and surgical rehabilitation of thyroid eye disease, and vascular lesions of the orbit.
Dr Ganga was instrumental in starting various multidisciplinary services including the NUH Retinoblastoma service (with pediatric oncologists, neuro-interventional radiologists and pathologists), NUH Thyroid Eye Disease service (with Endocrinologists & immunologists) and the NUH Lacrimal service (with Rhinologists). He has trained Fellows from Singapore, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, India, Thailand, Iran, Syria & the United Kingdom.
He travels widely in Southeast Asia, AsiaPacific and as an international faculty at various orbital and craniomaxillofacial conferences, symposia and courses raising the level of care of orbital and orbitofacial disorder and has contributed chapters to several textbooks in his field. He serves in several leadership capacities in various national, regional and international professional societies.
Mr. Raghavan Sampath is a Consultant Lid, Lacrimal and Orbit Surgeon and Hon Associate Professor at University Hospitals of Leicester, U.K. since 2000.
He runs a busy tertiary referral centre at the teaching hospital. His unit has won various awards at national/international meetings. He has presented/conducted invited courses/symposia including live surgical demonstrations at various international meetings including Europe/America/Middle east/ Pakistan/India. His unit has more than 50 publications/book chapters (peer reviewed) to its credit. His unit is one of the few in the UK to have a fully funded Royal College recognised lid/lacrimal/orbit fellowship. He completed his ophthalmic training at Manchester and Southeast Thames rotation including Kings College Hospital. He did his lid, lacrimal and orbit fellowships at Manchester and Moorfields under the guidance of many including Richard Collin and Geoff Rose
In addition to his university hospital commitment he also has a busy private practice in the field in England. He also has set up a Lid, Lacrimal and Orbit centre at Rajan Eye Care Hospital, Chennai, India to which he visits every 6 months spending atleast a week to operate on patients and conduct teaching and training. His recent innovations include the Leicester Chopper for cataract surgery (2009 – available through Altomed) no financial interest, Leicester VF testing for upper lid pathology(2010 with JB) – now incorporated in the Zeiss Humphreys VF software , Leicester Suture technique for lower lid tarsal ectropion (2010), Leicester Lasoo technique for lateral canthus fixation (2012)
He is one of the few UK ophthalmologists to open a group practice private ambulatory centre (The Stoneygate Eye Hospital 2011). He has trained more than 30 ophthalmologists/oculoplastic surgeons so far who have all become consultant ophthalmic surgeons in the UK including at teaching hospitals.
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.
Thursday morning at 7 am – JUST TURN UP
Meet Giorgio at the Arboretum Waverley Street Entranceentrance NG7 4HF. Advertised route has changed as park is closed. There will be pacesetters / route guides. You can use public shower in Maudsley Building which is open from 7.30 am. New route
Table 1 Eyelid: (Naresh Joshi, Tristan McMullan, Bernie Chang)
Table 2 Lacrimal: (Geoff Rose, Lorraine Abercrombie, Andrea Kossler)
Table 3 Paediatric oculoplastics: (Francesco Quaranta-Leoni, Katya Tambe, Richard Collin)
Table 4 Orbit: (Raghavan Sampath, Bita Esmaeli, Gangadhara Sundar)
Table 5 Socket: (Joyce Burns, Zanna Currie, Aidan Murray)
Table 6 Aesthetic: (Raman Malhotra, Milind Naik, Rachna Murthy)
Welcome, housekeeping and introductions
Clinicopathological analysis of malignant eyelid and adenexal tumours presenting in a tertiary eye hospital of Eastern Nepal – Dr Prerna Arjyal Kafle, Biratnagar Eye Hospital, Nepal
Mr Naresh Joshi is Consultant Oculoplastic surgeon at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Trust London and Honorary Consultant to the Royal Marsden. He is an Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London.
He is a founder member of the British Ophthalmic Plastic surgical Society (BOPSS), and a past president of the society. Other memberships include BAAPS , ASOPRS, APSOPRS .
Currently, he represents the Royal College of Ophthalmologists on the BSI (British Standards Institute) and CEN (Communite European Normalization) committees for the regulation of safety in aesthetic procedures. He has an interest in periocular aestheic surgery.
Chaired by: Mr. Jeremy Bowyer & Mr. Harpreet Ahluwalia
9.15 am
Eyelid skin trichilemmoma and underlying malignancy: Is an aggressive treatment necessary? 101
Christine Anggun Putri, Sheffield – (abstract)
9.20 am
Three year disease-free outcome in all non-melanomoutous skin cancers excised with 1mm margins and same-day reconstruction in a district general hospital 102
Jonathan Roos, Ipswich – (abstract)
9.25 am
Can upper lid everting surgery improve dry eye symptoms in patients with Meibomian gland inversion not responding to treatment? 103
Emma Samia-Aly, Coventry – (abstract)
9.30 am
Canalicular Antibiotic Ointment Loading: Primary Management option for management of Canaliculitis 104
Sonam Nisar, Sankara Nethralaya – (abstract)
9.35 am
Comparative survival of Stoploss Lester Jones Tubes (SLJT) and Lester Jones Tubes (LJT) 105
Kailun Jiang, London – (abstract)
9.40 am
Methodology of functional lacrimal MRI imaging 106
Valerie Juniat Brighton – (abstract)
9.45 am
Is it time to consider new treatments for ocular chemical burns? 107
Romeela Rana-Rahman, Middlesbrough – (abstract)
9.50 am
Management of Microphthalmia with Cyst over a Twenty-Year Period 108
Sri Gore, London – (abstract)
9.55 am
Keratopigmentation for phthisical eyes, an alternative to ocular prosthesis: outcomes in a series of 234 eyes 109
Maria Alejandra Amesty, Alicante – (abstract)
10.00 am
Periosteal grafts for Fornix reconstruction 110
Katja Ullrich, East Grinstead – (abstract)
10.05 am
Evisceration with intra-scleral acrylic implant and scleral autograft: a modified surgical technique 111
Paul Rainsbury, Portsmouth – (abstract)
10.10 am
Retro-caruncular Medical Canthal Tendon Plication and Lower Lid Suture Sling with Retractor recession – A narrated surgical video 112
Katja Ullrich, East Grinstead – (abstract)
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Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon Moorfields Eye Hospital
Geoffrey Rose graduated as Bachelor of Science in Pharmacology, with first-class honours, in 1976. He qualified in Medicine at King’s College Hospital, London, in 1979 and subsequently gained experience in Internal Medicine with award of Membership of the Royal College of Physicians in 1982. Postgraduate ophthalmic training was undertaken at King’s College Hospital, St Thomas Hospital and Moorfields Eye Hospital, with award of Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1985 and the Royal College of Ophthalmologists at its foundation in 1988. In 1990 the University of London granted an MS doctorate for his research on corneal endothelial changes after cataract surgery and, in 2004, awarded him a Doctor of Science in Ophthalmology and Ophthalmic Surgery.
Appointed as consultant surgeon to Moorfields Eye Hospital in 1990, Geoffrey Rose has served as Director of the Adnexal Service, and is currently the senior consultant specialising in orbital and lacrimal diseases. The unique clinical case-mix at Moorfields has provided opportunity for widespread research interests and publication of over 200 papers and 30 chapters on adnexal disease. He lectures widely at national and international level, has presented various named and guest lectures. In 2004, he was awarded the Lester Jones Anatomy Award of the American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (of which he is an honorary fellow). Professor Rose is a Senior Research Fellow of the Biomedical Research Centre of the Institute of Ophthalmology with University College, London.
Professor Rose is President Elect for the European Society of Oculoplastic and Reconstructive Surgeons, and for 8 years served as the British Council member of this group. He is also a Past-President of the British Oculo-Plastic Surgical Society.
Colin Vize is a consultant Oculoplastic Surgeon and Senior Lecturer at Hull Royal Infirmary.
He has been an ever present at BOPSS since its inception and is enjoying the role of BOPSS Honorary Secretary.
Asst. Prof. Andrea Kossler, Stanford, USA
Andrea Lora Kossler, MD, is Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at Stanford University School of Medicine and Director of the Ophthalmic Plastic, Reconstructive Surgery and Orbital Oncology Service at the Byers Eye Institute at Stanford. She specializes in plastic and reconstructive surgery of the forehead, mid-face, and eyes and has a special interest in aesthetic medicine and thyroid eye disease. Andrea has been in practice for over 8 years and treats adults and children with oculoplastic conditions. Dr. Kossler’s research interests include thyroid eye disease, orbital oncology, and neurostimulation for ocular surface disease.
Andrea is the Co-Director of the Thyroid Eye Disease Center at Stanford Hospital Center where she works together with a multidisciplinary team including an endocrinologist and radiation oncologist to provide patient centered care to patients diagnosed with thyroid eye disease. She is also the Director of the Stanford Aesthetic Eye Surgery Center where she specializes in cosmetic surgery and aesthetic treatments of the eyelids and face.
She earned her medical degree from Georgetown University School of Medicine where she graduated summa cum laude and valedictorian of her class. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Florida where she graduated with highest honors. She completed her internship in internal medicine at the Mount Sinai Medical Center and her residency in Ophthalmology at the number one ranked Bascom Palmer Eye Institute at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. She continued at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute to complete a fellowship in Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive surgery and served as a Clinic Instructor of Ophthalmology.
Outside of work Andrea enjoys time with her husband, two daughters and dog Roxy.
Giorgio Albanese is the newly appointed Oculoplastic and Orbital Consultant at Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, one of the largest teaching hospitals in the UK. Giorgio has been working as Senior Fellow in Oculoplastic and Orbital Surgery at University Hospitals of Leicester and he was the former Oculoplastics Fellow at Nottingham University Hospitals, where he gained extensive experience across the full range of eyelid, lacrimal, reconstructive, orbital and paediatric oculoplastic surgery.
Giorgio has spent most of his training between Italy, USA and UK where he decided to pursue his career as oculoplastic and orbital surgeon. Giorgio has developed a strong interest in clinical research, as clearly reflected by his publications in peer-reviewed journals. He is also reviewer for the European Journal of Ophthalmology and member of the Italian Society of Oculoplastic Surgery (SICOP). Giorgio has attended as speaker many national and international meetings, including BOPSS and ESOPRS.
Giorgio is an avid runner with a background as 400mt athlete and this year he is organising the inaugural 5k BOPSS run.
Miss Helen Garrott, Bristol
Helen Garrott completed her ophthalmology training at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital in Melbourne, Australia before undertaking oculoplastic and orbital fellowships in Bristol and at Moorfields Eye Hospital. She has worked as an oculoplastic consultant at Bristol Eye Hospital since 2010 and performs a wide range of oculoplastic, orbital and lacrimal surgery. She has a special interest in thyroid eye disease and was formerly Chairman of the Thyroid Eye Disease Charitable Trust.
Her extracurricular interests include squash, oil and watercolour painting.
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Mrs Katya Tambe is an adult and paediatric oculoplastic consultant at the Nottingham University Teaching Hospitals. She has a keen interest in paediatric oculoplastics, facial nerve palsy and peri-ocular reconstructions. She runs a busy paediatric oculoplastic service at NUH and works closely with the Moh’s surgeons in the reconstructions following periocular tumour excisions.
In the private sector she performs surgical blepharoplasties and the full range of oculoplastic surgery, specialising in personalised aesthetic surgery with a focus on natural outcomes.
Mrs Tambe trained in India where she received the gold medal for Ophthalmology at the Diplomate of National Board examinations. She then completed her specialist training in the West Midlands Deanery. She is one of the few dual trained oculoplastic surgeons having done a Fellowship in Paediatric Ophthalmology at the Birmingham Children’s Hospital and Oculoplastics Fellowships at Leicester and Moorfields. Visiting Fellowships to Philadelphia and Toronto further enhanced her paediatric oculoplastic experience.
She conducts a popular annual oculoplastic cadaveric dissection course in Nottingham along with colleagues from the East Midlands. Mrs Tambe supervises the Nottingham Oculoplastic Fellowship programme with her colleagues. She is the joint head of service for the Department of Ophthalmology in Nottingham. She currently chairs the Ophthalmic League of friends Charity, of the Queens Medical Centre, which she is very passionate about.
Dr. Quaranta-Leoni is the Director of the Adnexal and Orbital Service in the Dept. of Ophthalmology of Villa Tiberia Hospital in Rome and has a commitment to teaching, actively participating in residents training in adnexal disease.
He is the President Elect of ESOPRS, Past President and Past Secretary of SICOP (Italian Oculoplastic Surgery Society), International Associate Member of ASOPRS.
He attended Medical School at Catholic University of Rome – A. Gemelli Hospital, graduating with first-class honors in 1988. His postgraduate ophthalmic training was undertaken at the Department of Ophthalmology of Catholic University of Rome. He was awarded the Diploma of Ophthalmology with first-class honors in 1992 and undertook further training in Strabismus Surgery under the care of late Prof. Bruno Bagolini in 1992-1994.
Dr. Quaranta-Leoni attended a two-year Fellowship in Oculoplastic, Lacrimal and Orbital Surgery at Moorfields Eye Hospital – Londonin 1995-97 under the care of John Wright, Richard Collin, Geoffrey Rose and Michèle Beaconsfield. In 2014 he has been chosen to receive the ASOPRS Merrill Reeh Pathology Awardfor his work on: Management of Porous Orbital Implants Requiring Explantation: A Clinical and Histopathological Study. OPRS, 30(2):132-136, 2014.
His fields of interest are socket surgery, paediatric oculoplastic surgery, eyelid and orbital tumours, lacrimal surgery, thyroid eye disease.
He is married with two children and speaks fluent English, Italian, Spanish and French.
Prof. Gangadhara Sundar, Singapore
Dr Ganga obtained his degrees from Madras Medical College, postgraduate ophthalmology training from the Regional Institute of Ophthalmology & Govt Ophthalmic Hospital, Chennai, India followed by a residency and advanced subspecialty training from the Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, USA. He specializes in the diseases and surgery of the Eyelids, Lacrimal system, Orbit & Oculofacial diseases and Ophthalmic Oncology. Committed to clinical and surgical excellence, he is a regional and international expert in disorders such as orbital trauma, ophthalmic oncology, congential and acquired eyelid disorders, lacrimal system disorders, anophthalmic sockets, thyroid eye disease, facial palsy and esthetic orbito-facial rejuvenation (tissue fillers, Botox, blepharoplasty, brow & midface lifts). Some special interests include minimally invasive surgery (eg. endoluminal duct recanalization (ELDR)), complex orbital trauma reconstructions (navigation surgery, bioresorbable implants and customized implants), medical and surgical rehabilitation of thyroid eye disease, and vascular lesions of the orbit.
Dr Ganga was instrumental in starting various multidisciplinary services including the NUH Retinoblastoma service (with pediatric oncologists, neuro-interventional radiologists and pathologists), NUH Thyroid Eye Disease service (with Endocrinologists & immunologists) and the NUH Lacrimal service (with Rhinologists). He has trained Fellows from Singapore, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, India, Thailand, Iran, Syria & the United Kingdom.
He travels widely in Southeast Asia, AsiaPacific and as an international faculty at various orbital and craniomaxillofacial conferences, symposia and courses raising the level of care of orbital and orbitofacial disorder and has contributed chapters to several textbooks in his field. He serves in several leadership capacities in various national, regional and international professional societies.
Chaired by: Mr. Cornelius René & Mr. Soupramanien Sandramouli
1.45 pm
Conjunctival Sparing Ptosis Correction by white-line advancement technique 113
Fatima Habroosh, Abu Dhabi – (abstract)
1.50 pm
Naturally Looking Dynamic Skin Crease in Incisional Asian Blepharoplasty 114
Chung Nen Chua, Kuala Lumpur – (abstract)
1.55 pm
Transcanthal lateral canthopexy for correction of lower lid ectropion and entropion 115
Sohraab Yadav, Crewe – (abstract)
2.00 pm
Orbital Trauma in a Regional Orbito-facial Trauma Centre 116
Ahmed ALNAHRAWY, London – (abstract)
2.05 pm
Visual survival after open globe injury: a comparison of two prognostic models for visual outcome in a tertiary ophthalmic centre 117
Ahmed Aziz, London – (abstract)
2.10 pm
Redesigning Rundle’s curve for Thyroid Eye Disease? 118
Ahmed Alnahrawy, London – (abstract)
2.15 pm
Real-world use of non-echoplanar diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging for detection, disease monitoring and clinical decision-making in Graves’ Orbitopathy 119
Claire Feeney, London – (abstract)
2.20 pm
A Survey of Current Practices by the British Oculoplastic Surgical Society and Recommendations for delivering a sustainable multidisciplinary approach to Thyroid Eye Disease (TED) in the United Kingdom 120
Vickie Lee, London – (abstract)
2.25 pm
Does Redo Optic nerve sheath fenestration have a role in preventing optic nerve function deterioration 121
Reena Kumari, Leicester – (abstract)
2.30 pm
What happens to the contralateral eye in optic nerve sheath fenestration (ONSF)? 122
Reena Kumari Leicester – (abstract)
Reconstruction of the orbit following trauma and orbital tumour excision: a 20-year perspective
Prof. Gangadhara Sundar, Singapore
Dr Ganga obtained his degrees from Madras Medical College, postgraduate ophthalmology training from the Regional Institute of Ophthalmology & Govt Ophthalmic Hospital, Chennai, India followed by a residency and advanced subspecialty training from the Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, USA. He specializes in the diseases and surgery of the Eyelids, Lacrimal system, Orbit & Oculofacial diseases and Ophthalmic Oncology. Committed to clinical and surgical excellence, he is a regional and international expert in disorders such as orbital trauma, ophthalmic oncology, congential and acquired eyelid disorders, lacrimal system disorders, anophthalmic sockets, thyroid eye disease, facial palsy and esthetic orbito-facial rejuvenation (tissue fillers, Botox, blepharoplasty, brow & midface lifts). Some special interests include minimally invasive surgery (eg. endoluminal duct recanalization (ELDR)), complex orbital trauma reconstructions (navigation surgery, bioresorbable implants and customized implants), medical and surgical rehabilitation of thyroid eye disease, and vascular lesions of the orbit.
Dr Ganga was instrumental in starting various multidisciplinary services including the NUH Retinoblastoma service (with pediatric oncologists, neuro-interventional radiologists and pathologists), NUH Thyroid Eye Disease service (with Endocrinologists & immunologists) and the NUH Lacrimal service (with Rhinologists). He has trained Fellows from Singapore, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, India, Thailand, Iran, Syria & the United Kingdom.
He travels widely in Southeast Asia, AsiaPacific and as an international faculty at various orbital and craniomaxillofacial conferences, symposia and courses raising the level of care of orbital and orbitofacial disorder and has contributed chapters to several textbooks in his field. He serves in several leadership capacities in various national, regional and international professional societies.
Old Chemistry Lab & Lecture Theatre 8
Lecture Demonstration on fillers – Mrs. Sabrina Shah-Desai – Lecture theatre 3
Hands on workshop on orbital fracture – Prof. Gangadhara Sundar & Mr. Dilip Srinivasan – Lecture theatre 8
Mrs. Sabrina Shah-Desai, MS FRCS
London
Mrs. Sabrina Shah-Desai, is a leading Ophthalmic Plastic Reconstructive and Cosmetic Surgeon internationally recognized as an expert in non-surgical and technologically advanced cosmetic treatments, being voted as one of the Global 100 most influential aesthetic practitioners 2019.
Recognised by her peers and industry experts as a peri-orbital specialist with surgical, dermatological and aesthetic experience, she occupies a unique position globally. Her innovative effective treatments combining surgical and non-surgical modalities are based on an in-depth scientific knowledge and experience of eyelid anatomy, peri-orbital skin conditions and ethnic ageing.
In her London-based boutique clinic, she not only treats a spectrum of eyelid diseases, but also practices Cosmetic Rejuvenation treatments, ensuring the highest quality and safety standards. She has pioneered a highly effective and much sought-after tear trough filler treatment Eye-boost™ using a biplanar technique to naturally restore the delicate periorbital area. Her special interest lies in 3-Dimensional aesthetic restoration of the eyes, face, and neck, using surgery, ultrasound, threads, fillers, toxin and skin resurfacing to create natural harmonious results, which she calls the Perfect 360 ™ . She specializes Cosmetic eyelid lift surgery (Blepharoplasty), scar-less droopy eyelid correction (Ptosis) and revision surgical and non-surgical treatments.
Mrs. Shah-Desai is passionate about education and safe aesthetic treatments, and founded the Oculo-Facial Aesthetic Academy (OFAA) in 2016 to improve training standards in Aesthetic Medicine. She is a Key Opinion Leader for the Aesthetic Industry & an invited speaker at international conferences and travels the world educating surgeons & aesthetic practitioners in her innovative, minimally invasive and state of the art techniques. She has authored book chapters and many scientific paper’s and her research is published in peer reviewed medical journals and textbooks. Mrs. Sabrina Shah-Desai is member of the British Oculo Plastic Surgery Society (BOPSS), The Royal College of Surgeons (Ed), The Royal College of Ophthalmologists, Inter specialty member of British Association of Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS) and honorary member of The Association of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons of Southern Africa (APRASSA).
Prof. Gangadhara Sundar, Singapore
Dr Ganga obtained his degrees from Madras Medical College, postgraduate ophthalmology training from the Regional Institute of Ophthalmology & Govt Ophthalmic Hospital, Chennai, India followed by a residency and advanced subspecialty training from the Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, USA. He specializes in the diseases and surgery of the Eyelids, Lacrimal system, Orbit & Oculofacial diseases and Ophthalmic Oncology. Committed to clinical and surgical excellence, he is a regional and international expert in disorders such as orbital trauma, ophthalmic oncology, congential and acquired eyelid disorders, lacrimal system disorders, anophthalmic sockets, thyroid eye disease, facial palsy and esthetic orbito-facial rejuvenation (tissue fillers, Botox, blepharoplasty, brow & midface lifts). Some special interests include minimally invasive surgery (eg. endoluminal duct recanalization (ELDR)), complex orbital trauma reconstructions (navigation surgery, bioresorbable implants and customized implants), medical and surgical rehabilitation of thyroid eye disease, and vascular lesions of the orbit.
Dr Ganga was instrumental in starting various multidisciplinary services including the NUH Retinoblastoma service (with pediatric oncologists, neuro-interventional radiologists and pathologists), NUH Thyroid Eye Disease service (with Endocrinologists & immunologists) and the NUH Lacrimal service (with Rhinologists). He has trained Fellows from Singapore, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, India, Thailand, Iran, Syria & the United Kingdom.
He travels widely in Southeast Asia, AsiaPacific and as an international faculty at various orbital and craniomaxillofacial conferences, symposia and courses raising the level of care of orbital and orbitofacial disorder and has contributed chapters to several textbooks in his field. He serves in several leadership capacities in various national, regional and international professional societies.
Welcome, housekeeping and introductions
Chaired by:
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.
Consultant & Head, Ophthalmic Plastic Surgery Service,
Dr Milind Naik acquired his post-graduate training in Ophthalmology at the Christian Medical College, Vellore, India, He further completed his Ophthalmic and Facial plastic surgery fellowship at the prestigious University of California, Los Angeles in the year 2006-07. His areas of interest include Aesthetic and Facial Plastic Surgery, Thyroid Eye Disease, and Minimally Invasive Ophthalmic Plastic Surgery.
He has been awarded the Senior Achievement Award by the American Academy of Ophthalmology in the year 2015 and is a member of the American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery (ASOPRS). He served as the Vice President of the Asia Pacific Society of Ophthalmic Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery (APSOPRS) in the year 2010-12.
Dr Naik has over 200 peer-reviewed publications in International journals, and lectures extensively across the globe in the field of ophthalmic plastic surgery, and facial aesthetics. Dr Naik currently heads the Ophthalmic Plastic Surgery Services at LV Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad, India. He also serves as Associate Professor, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Rochester, New York, USA. He was recently elected as the Web Editor of AOCMF, Asia Pacific.
His extra-curricular interests include painting, 3D videography, and paperfolding. His better half, Vibhavari Naik is an Anaesthesiologist, and they have a 18 year old daughter, Jaee who is currently pursuing Medicine at St John’s medical college, Bangalore, India.
Dr Hardeep Singh Mudhar, Consultant Eye Pathologist, Sheffield
Dr Hardeep Singh Mudhar trained in medicine at Guy’s hospital medical school and Cambridge University; PhD at UCL (Neurobiology); Ophthalmology training at Queen’s Medical Centre Nottingham; Histopathology Training in Sheffield; Then rotated through all of the UK specialist ophthalmic pathology centres;
He was honorary consultant eye pathologist 2003-2004 at the Institute of Ophthalmology London; Since 2004 full time eye pathologist in Sheffield. He is visiting eye pathology professor to Wills Eye Hospital since 2016 and is on the World Health Organisation (WHO) panel for ocular tumours.
Mrs. Sabrina Shah-Desai, MS FRCS
London
Mrs. Sabrina Shah-Desai, is a leading Ophthalmic Plastic Reconstructive and Cosmetic Surgeon internationally recognized as an expert in non-surgical and technologically advanced cosmetic treatments, being voted as one of the Global 100 most influential aesthetic practitioners 2019.
Recognised by her peers and industry experts as a peri-orbital specialist with surgical, dermatological and aesthetic experience, she occupies a unique position globally. Her innovative effective treatments combining surgical and non-surgical modalities are based on an in-depth scientific knowledge and experience of eyelid anatomy, peri-orbital skin conditions and ethnic ageing.
In her London-based boutique clinic, she not only treats a spectrum of eyelid diseases, but also practices Cosmetic Rejuvenation treatments, ensuring the highest quality and safety standards. She has pioneered a highly effective and much sought-after tear trough filler treatment Eye-boost™ using a biplanar technique to naturally restore the delicate periorbital area. Her special interest lies in 3-Dimensional aesthetic restoration of the eyes, face, and neck, using surgery, ultrasound, threads, fillers, toxin and skin resurfacing to create natural harmonious results, which she calls the Perfect 360 ™ . She specializes Cosmetic eyelid lift surgery (Blepharoplasty), scar-less droopy eyelid correction (Ptosis) and revision surgical and non-surgical treatments.
Mrs. Shah-Desai is passionate about education and safe aesthetic treatments, and founded the Oculo-Facial Aesthetic Academy (OFAA) in 2016 to improve training standards in Aesthetic Medicine. She is a Key Opinion Leader for the Aesthetic Industry & an invited speaker at international conferences and travels the world educating surgeons & aesthetic practitioners in her innovative, minimally invasive and state of the art techniques. She has authored book chapters and many scientific paper’s and her research is published in peer reviewed medical journals and textbooks. Mrs. Sabrina Shah-Desai is member of the British Oculo Plastic Surgery Society (BOPSS), The Royal College of Surgeons (Ed), The Royal College of Ophthalmologists, Inter specialty member of British Association of Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS) and honorary member of The Association of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons of Southern Africa (APRASSA).
Consultant & Head, Ophthalmic Plastic Surgery Service,
Dr Milind Naik acquired his post-graduate training in Ophthalmology at the Christian Medical College, Vellore, India, He further completed his Ophthalmic and Facial plastic surgery fellowship at the prestigious University of California, Los Angeles in the year 2006-07. His areas of interest include Aesthetic and Facial Plastic Surgery, Thyroid Eye Disease, and Minimally Invasive Ophthalmic Plastic Surgery.
He has been awarded the Senior Achievement Award by the American Academy of Ophthalmology in the year 2015 and is a member of the American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery (ASOPRS). He served as the Vice President of the Asia Pacific Society of Ophthalmic Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery (APSOPRS) in the year 2010-12.
Dr Naik has over 200 peer-reviewed publications in International journals, and lectures extensively across the globe in the field of ophthalmic plastic surgery, and facial aesthetics. Dr Naik currently heads the Ophthalmic Plastic Surgery Services at LV Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad, India. He also serves as Associate Professor, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Rochester, New York, USA. He was recently elected as the Web Editor of AOCMF, Asia Pacific.
His extra-curricular interests include painting, 3D videography, and paperfolding. His better half, Vibhavari Naik is an Anaesthesiologist, and they have a 18 year old daughter, Jaee who is currently pursuing Medicine at St John’s medical college, Bangalore, India.
Chaired by:
Rebecca Ford is a consultant oculoplastic and orbital surgeon at Bristol Eye Hospital, where she is also co-Clinical Director. She trained in internal medicine in Plymouth and ophthalmology in London, followed by oculoplastics fellowship training in Birmingham. Current research interests include IgG4-related orbital disease, best practice in eyelid malposition, and thyroid eye disease.
Rebecca has a special interest in medical education; she was a London Deanery Fellow in Medical Education and completed her Masters degree in surgical education at Imperial College London. She is a member of the RCOphth Education Committee and College Lead for e-learning, and leads the ‘Training the Trainers’ international program. She is also the lead examiner for the International Council of Ophthalmology Oculoplastics Subspecialty Exam. Rebecca is the current chair of the Thyroid Eye Disease Charitable Trust, a charity dedicated to supporting patients with thyroid eye disease and promoting research into this condition.
Prof. Bita Esmaeli, Texas, USA
Dr Bita Esmaeli is a Professor and Fellowship Program Director for Ophthalmic Plastic Surgery in the Department of Plastic Surgery at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, where she has had an orbital oncology and oncologic ophthalmic plastic surgery practice since 1998.
Dr Esmaeli’s practice focus is surgical treatment of orbital tumors, lacrimal gland carcinomas, eyelid cancers, melanoma of eyelid and conjunctiva, and reconstructive surgery in the periocular region including lacrimal surgery. Her research interests include early detection of metastasis, multi-disciplinary eye sparing approaches, and molecular targets for treatment for ocular and orbital cancers.
Dr Esmaeli has authored over 210 peer-reviewed manuscripts, over 55 invited articles and book chapters, and has spearheaded numerous clinical trials and research protocols at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. She teaches widely throughout the world and is a frequent guest speaker at international meetings. She has received many prestigious awards and honors including the Merrill Reeh Pathology Award and the Research Award from the American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, the American Academy of Ophthalmology Senior Achievement Award, Best Doctors in America, and Top Doctors Award. Dr Esmaeli is a member of the American Ophthalmologic Society.
Mr. Raghavan Sampath is a Consultant Lid, Lacrimal and Orbit Surgeon and Hon Associate Professor at University Hospitals of Leicester, U.K. since 2000.
He runs a busy tertiary referral centre at the teaching hospital. His unit has won various awards at national/international meetings. He has presented/conducted invited courses/symposia including live surgical demonstrations at various international meetings including Europe/America/Middle east/ Pakistan/India. His unit has more than 50 publications/book chapters (peer reviewed) to its credit. His unit is one of the few in the UK to have a fully funded Royal College recognised lid/lacrimal/orbit fellowship. He completed his ophthalmic training at Manchester and Southeast Thames rotation including Kings College Hospital. He did his lid, lacrimal and orbit fellowships at Manchester and Moorfields under the guidance of many including Richard Collin and Geoff Rose
In addition to his university hospital commitment he also has a busy private practice in the field in England. He also has set up a Lid, Lacrimal and Orbit centre at Rajan Eye Care Hospital, Chennai, India to which he visits every 6 months spending atleast a week to operate on patients and conduct teaching and training. His recent innovations include the Leicester Chopper for cataract surgery (2009 – available through Altomed) no financial interest, Leicester VF testing for upper lid pathology(2010 with JB) – now incorporated in the Zeiss Humphreys VF software , Leicester Suture technique for lower lid tarsal ectropion (2010), Leicester Lasoo technique for lateral canthus fixation (2012)
He is one of the few UK ophthalmologists to open a group practice private ambulatory centre (The Stoneygate Eye Hospital 2011). He has trained more than 30 ophthalmologists/oculoplastic surgeons so far who have all become consultant ophthalmic surgeons in the UK including at teaching hospitals.
Chaired by: Mr. Simon Madge & Mr. Lee Stevenson
11.15 am
Rhino-orbital Mucormycosis: A Clinical Spectrum and Decision Making for Orbital Exenteration 201
Anurag Mittal, India – (abstract)
11.20 am
Clinical, radiological and histopathological diagnosis correlation in orbital biopsies: 10-year retrospective study in Bristol Eye Hopital 202
Ioana Pereni, Bristol – (abstract)
11.25 am
Orbital lymphoma: a 13-year review at a national ocular oncology centre 203
Jessica Boston, Glasgow – (abstract)
11.30 am
Computed Tomography (CT)-guided Core Needle Biopsy of Orbital Lesions 204
Bashar Bata, Sheffield – (abstract)
11.35 am
Orbital and periocular lymphoma. Experience from a UK tertiary referral centre. 205
Giorgio Albanese, Leicester – (abstract)
11.40 am
Transforming care: A Pilot Study for a Virtual Oculoplastic Clinic 206
Luke Michaels, Bolton – (abstract)
11.45 am
Funding for Oculoplastic Surgery by Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) in England: A BOPSS member survey. 207
Samantha Hunt, Bristol – (abstract)
11.50 am
CCG funding of oculoplastics- is there a postcode lottery? 208
Samantha Hunt, Bristol – (abstract)
11.55 am
A novel repair technique for porous orbital implant exposure: long-term outcome 209
Kent Chow, Australia – (abstract)
Eyeborg
A one-eyed filmmaker with a camera eye is teaming up with a young Polish Ophthalmologist to create an army of monocular cyborgs.
Rob Spence is also known as Eyeborg because he has a prosthetic eye with a wireless video camera inside. Making wireless eye cameras are tricky because of the odd and small space where the electronics go. Rob is now working with Marcin Jaworski, M.D. – Ophthalmology resident doctor and founder of Next Eye Prosthetics – to harness the predictability of 3D printed prosthetic eyes and improve the process.
Rob and Marcin discuss their methodology and further explore the fascinating world of how we will see in the future. Topics: the future of prosthetic eyes and vision, human augmentation, privacy, open sourcing, and how Rob believes everyone with a prosthetic eye should have a red LED light option.
Chaired by:
Professor Tim Briggs CBE
Professor Briggs qualified from The Royal London Hospital in 1982 with honors in surgery and a number of prizes. After his senior registrar training he was appointed to the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital as Consultant in 1992. His specialist interests are in orthopaedic oncology as well as surgery to the hip and knee. He was Medical Director at the RNOH for 15 years, ensuring a re-build and was President of the British Orthopaedic Association in 2014.
He was appointed as National Director for Clinical Quality and Efficiency for the NHS in September 2015 and has been asked to lead and roll out his GIRFT methodology, developed in orthopaedics, across all surgical and medical specialties within the provider network.
Professor Briggs was made a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2018 New Year’s Honours List for services to the surgical profession.
Professor Briggs was made National Director of Clinical Improvement for the NHS & NHSI in January 2019.
Mr. Mark Henley, Consultant Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeon, Nottingham
Keynote lecture introduced by Mr. Raghavan Sampath
Surgical and non-surgical management of locally advanced periocular cutaneous cancers
Prof. Bita Esmaeli, Texas, USA
Dr Bita Esmaeli is a Professor and Fellowship Program Director for Ophthalmic Plastic Surgery in the Department of Plastic Surgery at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, where she has had an orbital oncology and oncologic ophthalmic plastic surgery practice since 1998.
Dr Esmaeli’s practice focus is surgical treatment of orbital tumors, lacrimal gland carcinomas, eyelid cancers, melanoma of eyelid and conjunctiva, and reconstructive surgery in the periocular region including lacrimal surgery. Her research interests include early detection of metastasis, multi-disciplinary eye sparing approaches, and molecular targets for treatment for ocular and orbital cancers.
Dr Esmaeli has authored over 210 peer-reviewed manuscripts, over 55 invited articles and book chapters, and has spearheaded numerous clinical trials and research protocols at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. She teaches widely throughout the world and is a frequent guest speaker at international meetings. She has received many prestigious awards and honors including the Merrill Reeh Pathology Award and the Research Award from the American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, the American Academy of Ophthalmology Senior Achievement Award, Best Doctors in America, and Top Doctors Award. Dr Esmaeli is a member of the American Ophthalmologic Society.
Collin Fellowship – “Incidence of eyelid melanoma” – Mr John Bladen, London
BOPSS President
Chaired by:
Michèle Beaconsfield FRCOphth FEBO
Consultant Surgeon Adnexal Service Moorfields Eye Hospital, London
Qualified from Charing Cross Hospital 1979; Adnexal training with Messrs Collin, Welham & Wright; Oculoplastic Fellowship with Richard Collin 1988.
Consultant Ophthalmic & Oculoplastic Surgeon since 1991 with particular interest in surgical rehabilitation (ocular cicatricial disease, thyroid ophthalmopathy, facial palsy, tumour defect reconstruction). Created the specialised Lid Oncology service at Moorfields over 10 years ago which runs with consultant surgeons and Mohs specialists, a dedicated Fellow, a Cancer Nurse Specialist, and works with a multidisciplinary team of oncologists, radiologists, pathologists, maxillofacial and plastic surgeons.
Was Examiner for the Royal College of Ophthalmologists and the European Board of Ophthalmology for 20 years; also Educational supervisor and Trainee mentor. Now chairs newly established ESOPRS examination board.
For 3.12pm – 3.19pm + 1 min questions Miss Julia Sen
Against 3.20pm – 3.27pm + 1 min questions Mr. Tristan McMullan
Chairman’s summary & vote
Julia Sen is a Consultant Ophthalmologist, Oculoplastic, Mohs and reconstructive surgeon in the Worcestershire Acute NHS Trust.
In collaboration with her core skin cancer MDT colleagues Miss Sen has developed a single visit periocular Mohs excision and reconstruction service for patients within the three counties of Worcestershire, Gloucestershire and Herefordshire.
Miss Sen is the BOPSS representative on the multidisciplinary working party for the development of NICE guidelines for Mohs surgery and the NHS England Clinical Reference Group for skin cancer services.
Miss Sen provides surgical training to Maxillofacial surgery trainees and is a faculty member of the University of Coventry & Warwickshire Oculoplastic wetlab course. Miss Sen’s additional private practice interests also include surgical and non surgical facial aesthetics and is a faculty member of the Oculo-Facial Aesthetics Academy, London.
Mr McMullan spent 11 years training as an general ophthalmologist with extensive sub-specialisation in oculoplastics in both the UK and the USA – before becoming a Consultant in 2007. His fellowship training on both sides of the Atlantic has enabled Mr McMullan to choose the best practice and techniques from both to optimise results for both patient and surgeon. His North American training is particularly relevant to aesthetic surgery.
A Cambridge graduate with a PhD in molecular genetics Mr McMullan has retained an interest in research, both clinical and scientific. He has published numerous peer- reviewed papers and presented at national and international conferences. He jointly runs a (fully funded) adnexal fellowship at Northampton General hospital. His NHS responsibilities have included being Lead Clinician in the ophthalmology department at Northampton General Hospital and Chair of the Local Professional Network (part of NHS England).
Mr McMullan is a member of the British Oculoplastic Surgery Society and the European Society of Oculoplastic & Reconstructive Surgery (ESOPRS). He is a previous ESOPRS junior award winner. He was made a Trustee of NAB, the Northamptonshire Association for the Blind, in 2014
For 3.32pm – 3.39pm + 1 min questions Mr. Colin Vize, Hull
Against 3.40pm – 3.47pm + 1 min questions Mrs. Purnima Mehta, Birmingham
Chairman’s summary & vote
Colin Vize is a consultant Oculoplastic Surgeon and Senior Lecturer at Hull Royal Infirmary.
He has been an ever present at BOPSS since its inception and is enjoying the role of BOPSS Honorary Secretary.
Purnima Mehta is a Consultant Ophthalmologist and Oculoplastic surgeon at the University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust since 2010. She completed her higher surgical training in the West Midlands Deanery, followed by an Oculoplastic and Adnexal Fellowship at the Birmingham and Midlands Eye Centre. She has a keen interest in Thyroid eye disease, Paediatric Oculoplastics and peri-ocular reconstructive surgery. She has authored many scientific papers published in peer-reviewed journals and presented at national and international conferences. She is a reviewer for the Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive surgery journal and Orbit. As part of a multidisciplinary team, she was the Ophthalmology lead for setting up the “Coventry GCA fast track pathway” which was highly commended by the British Society of Rheumatology Best practise Award 2018 for clinical delivery.
She is passionate about education and training and organises the annual “Coventry Ophthalmic Surgery Cadaver course”. She is also faculty for the “West Midlands Emergency Surgical skills Cadaver course” and “Cranio-maxillofacial operative surgery cadaver workshop”.
She enjoys acrylic painting and runs art workshops to teach fluid acrylic painting.