SCIENTIFIC MEETING
DAY ONE
Thursday 26th June 2025
07.00 Social activities at West pier beach – choose from yoga, 5km run or sea swim
08.00 Registration with tea, coffee and pastries and exhibition in the Corn Exchange
08.00 – 9.00
Endoscopic workshop with Chris Schulz & Miles Kiernan supported by Karl Storz Endoscopy (ticketed event) – location Founders Room East
08.45 Welcome, housekeeping and introductions
Brighton team
09.00 Session I: Free paper presentations
Chaired by Mr Huw Oliphant, Brighton and Mrs Katya Tambe, Nottingham
09.05 Thursday
Outcomes of endonasal endoscopic orbital decompression surgery 102
Isaac Close (view abstract)
Brighton and Sussex Medical School
09.15 Thursday
Methods for securing a silicone sling in frontalis suspension surgery for ptosis. 104
Ziki Gurney (view abstract)
Sussex Eye Hospital, University Hospitals Sussex NHS Trust
09.20 Thursday
Minimally Invasive Eyelid Lift (MINEL) 105
Alice Goh (view abstract)
BE Specialist Clinic, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
09.25 Thursday
THRIVE Phase 3 Study in Active Thyroid Eye Disease (TED): Efficacy and Safety at 15 Weeks of Veligrotug (VRDN-001), a Full Antagonist Humanized Monoclonal Antibody to IGF-1R 106
Vickie Lee (view abstract)
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
09.30 Thursday
Non-Endoscopic Endonasal Dacryocystorhinostomy (NEED) for epiphora; outcomes of a unique procedure. 107
Roha Ahmad Choudhary (view abstract)
The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust
09.35 Moderator round up
09.40 Opening the Septum in Upper Blepharoplasty
09.50 Rapid fire papers continued
10.00 Thursday
Outcomes of eyelid tightening procedure in the management of epiphora 111
Simerdip Kaur (view abstract)
Sussex Eye Hospital, Brighton
10.05 Thursday
Conjunctiva sparing single-unit retractor recession for patients with thyroid eye disease 109
Rolika Bansal (view abstract)
Shiley Eye Institute, UC San Diego
10.10 Thursday
Post-teprotumumab surgical orbital decompression in residual or reactivated thyroid eye disease 110
Rolika Bansal (view abstract)
Shiley Eye Institute, UC San Diego
10.15 Thursday
THRIVE-2 Phase 3 Study in Chronic Thyroid Eye Disease (TED): Efficacy and Safety at 15 Weeks of Veligrotug (VRDN-001), a Full Antagonist Humanized Monoclonal Antibody to IGF-1R 112
Jimmy Uddin (view abstract)
Moorfields Eye Hospital
10.20 Thursday
Regional Histological Variations in the Structure and Composition of the Upper Eyelid Tarsal Plate 113
Maria-Angelica Lupu (view abstract)
Brighton and Sussex Medical School
10.25 Moderator round up
10.30 KEYNOTE High SMAS Facelifting for the Oculoplastic Surgeon
11.00 – 11.30
Tea, Coffee at the trade exhibition in the Corn Exchange
Ask the experts – medicolegal cases (pre-booking essential limited places available)
11.30 Session II: Round Table
12.30 – 13.30
Lunch at the trade exhibition in the Corn Exchange
12.30 – 13.30
Fillers for fellows with Dan Ezra (ticketed event) – location Founders Room East
Click here to see “Filler for Fellows” programme
13.30 Session III: Lids/paeds
Chaired by Miss Valerie Juniat, Brighton and Mr Raman Malhotra, East Grinstead
13.30 Endo style brow lift – what I have learned
Guy Massry, USA (by zoom)
13.55 Frontalis flap – UK experience, practical tips
14.10 Congenital Eyelid disorders
Vladimir Kratky, Canada/Czech Republic
14.25 Paediatric eyelid reconstruction
14.40 KEYNOTE: Mydriasis in the orbit of good and evil
15.10 – 15.45
Tea, Coffee at the trade exhibition in the Corn Exchange
15.45 Session IV: Endoscopic
Chaired by Mr Andre Litwin, East Grinstead and Mr Saul Rajak, Brighton
15.45 Update on endoscopic orbital decompression
16.00 Lessons from the steep curve of lacrimal surgery
Chris Schulz, London
16.15 Pushing the Boundaries of Oculoplastic Surgery: New Frontiers in Endoscopic Surgery
16.30 Sentinel Node Biopsy: who, why and how
16.45 KEYNOTE: How we decoded the Etiopathogenesis of Dacryolithiasisacryolithiasis?
17.15 AGM for full BOPSS members only
18.15 Close
19.00 BOPSS 25th Anniversary meal and disco at The Shelter Hall
