Separate day programmes Wednesday Thursday Friday Oculoplastic Nursing Course
UPDATE & RECENT ADVANCES DAY
Wednesday 25th June 2025
08.30 Registration with tea, coffee and pastries and exhibition in the Corn Exchange
09.15 Welcome, housekeeping and introductions
Brighton team
09.25 Session I: Lids
Chaired by Mr Saul Rajak, Brighton and Mr Huw Oliphant, Brighton
09.30 Update on blepharospasm
09.45 Upper eyelid retraction in TED
10.00 Managing the eyelid in MMP
10.15 Periocular Dermatitis: Atopy and Allergy
10.30 Tarsal ectropion review and management
Raghavan Sampath, Leicester
10.45 Preputial skin graft
11.00 – 11:30
Tea, Coffee and posters at the trade exhibition in the Corn Exchange
11.30 Session II: Misc
Chaired by Miss Valerie Juniat, Brighton and Mr Andre Litwin, East Grinstead
11.30 KEYNOTE: Dacryology – what new did we do in 2024?
12.00 Immunotherapy in SCC
12.15 Post op conjunctival chemosis
12.30 Management of severely contracted sockets
12.50 – 14.00
Lunch break in the Corn Exchange
14.00 Session III: Orbit
Chaired by Mr Sachin Salvi, Sheffield and Miss Lucy Clarke, Newcastle
14.00 Update on TONES
Reema Kumari, Birmingham
14.20 Vascular lesions of the orbit: conceptual approach and advances in treatment
Diego Strianese, Italy
14.40 Monoclonals
Jonathan Norris, Oxford
15.00 KEYNOTE Burning extraocular muscles
15.30 – 16:00
Tea, Coffee at the trade exhibition in the Corn Exchange
16.00 Session IV: Cosmetic/Brow
Chaired by Mr Huw Oliphant, Brighton and Mr Saul Rajak, Brighton
16.00 KEYNOTE Optimizing Lower Lid Blepharoplasty
16.30 Avoiding asymmetry in upper lid blepharoplasty
Austin McCormick, Liverpool
16.45 Update on orbital fractures
17.00 The Changing World of Aesthetics: Moving Beyond Toxins and Fillers
17.15 “Breaking Brow” Brow Feminisation for Transgender Women
Nik Maini, Maxillofacial Surgeon, Brighton
17.30 Meeting Close
17.45 Welcome Reception at the Royal Pavillion
19.30 Evening free
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
08.45 Welcome, housekeeping and introductions
Brighton team
08.55 Session I: Free paper presentations
Chaired by Mr Huw Oliphant, Brighton and Mrs Katya Tambe, Nottingham
09.00 Rapid fire papers
09.00 Thursday
AI-Powered Eyelid Position Analysis Using Smartphone-Captured Images 101
Rita Zlatkin (view abstract)
Rabin Medical Center
09.05 Thursday
Outcomes of endonasal endoscopic orbital decompression surgery 102
Isaac Close (view abstract)
Brighton and Sussex Medical School
09.10 Thursday
Non-surgical facial reanimation using Hyaluronic Acid (HA) fillers in chronic CN VII palsy 103
Ofira Zloto (view abstract)
Sheba Medical Center
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
09.55 Thursday
Outcomes after multidisciplinary treatment for pediatric and adult orbital rhabdomyosarcoma 108
Nur Khatib (view abstract)
Ha emek medical
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
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
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME
DAY TWO
Friday 27th June 2025
08.00 Registration with tea, coffee and pastries and exhibition in the Corn Exchange
08.45 Welcome, housekeeping and introductions
Brighton team
08.55 Session I: Free paper presentations
Chaired by Mrs Valerie Juniat, Brighton and Ms Cornelia Poitelea, Brighton
09.00 Rapid fire papers
09.00 Friday
Anterior lamellar repositioning and en-bloc lash root resection for entropion repair in ocular cicatricial pemphigoid 201
David McMaster (view abstract)
Western Eye Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London
09.05 Friday
Can exenteration surgery be avoided in conjunctival Intraepithelial Sebaceous Gland Carcinoma (ISGC)? 202
Camilla Pagnacco (view abstract)
Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield
09.10 Friday
Customised patient-specific implants for orbital reconstruction in a day-case setting: a case series. 203
Arnaud Potvin (view abstract)
Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
09.15 Friday
Upper Eyelid Medial Fat Reduction and Post-septal Pearl Grafting: A modified technique for fat distribution during upper blepharoplasty 208
Meriam Islam (view abstract)
Queen Victoria Hospital
09.20 Friday
Post-operative complications and rates of subsequent surgery following globe evisceration: A multicentre UK retrospective case series 204
Bryher Francis (view abstract)
Bristol Eye Hospital
09.25 Friday
10-Year Retrospective Comparison of Anterior vs. Posterior Approaches to Congenital Ptosis Repair 205
Samira Davalbhakta (view abstract)
Queens Medical Centre Nottingham
09.30 Friday
Classification of basal cell carcinoma of the eyelid using convolutional neural networks 206
Christina V. Miller (view abstract)
Department of Ophthalmology, University Ulm, Germany
09.35 Moderator round up
09.40 Periocular burns management
Baljit Dheansa, Consultant Plastic Surgeon, East Grinstead
09.50 Rapid fire papers continued
09.55 Friday
Assessing Clinician Reliability in Eyelid and Periorbital Measurements in the Oculoplastic Examination 207
Amee Patel (view abstract)
Moorfield’s Eye Hospital, London
10.00 Friday
Experience with the Use of Teprotumumab in Treating Thyroid Eye Disease – The Experience in the United Arab Emirates and Middle East Region 209
HABIBULLAH EATAMADI (view abstract)
Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City
10.05 Friday
Smartphone-Based Exophthalmometry Using the Apple iPhone TrueDepth Sensor: A Reliability and Validity Study 210
Christopher Schulz (view abstract)
Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust
10.10 Friday
Outcomes of cemiplimab immunotherapy in squamous cell carcinoma 211
Mumta Kanda (view abstract)
Moorfields Eye Hospital
10.15 Friday
Single-Cell Transcriptomic Analysis Reveals Distinct Fibroblast Phenotypes in Active and Inactive Thyroid Eye Disease 212
Anne Xuan-Lan Nguyen (view abstract)
Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
10.20 Friday
MRI image segmentation of extraocular muscles in thyroid eye disease: a comparison of intra-observer and inter-observer methods 213
Meydan Ben Ishai (view abstract)
Sussex Eye Hospital
10.25 Moderator round up
10.30 KEYNOTE: The second hand of Graves
11.00 – 11.30
Tea, Coffee at the trade exhibition in the Corn Exchange
Ask the experts – clinical cases (pre-booking essential limited places available)
11.30 Session II: Tech
Chaired by Mr Colin Vize, Hull and Mr Richard Scawn, London
11.30 KEYNOTE: Complex endoscopic DCRs (video-based)
12.00 KEYNOTE: Augmented Reality using Spatial Computer in Oculoplastic Surgery
12.30 – 13.30
Lunch at the trade exhibition in the Corn Exchange
13.30 BOPSS Annual Prizegiving and Presidential Handover
Mr Colin Vize, Hull and Mr Saj Attaullah, Manchester
13.45 Sheffield 2026
Mr Sachin Salvi, Sheffield
13.55 Sustainability and best practice
Tristan Reuser, Birmingham
14.00 Session III: Facial Palsy
Chaired by Mrs Joyce Burns, Leicester and Mr Raman Malhotra, East Grinstead
14.00 Update on facial therapy
14.15 Facial Palsy
Charles Nduka, Consultant Plastic Surgeon, East Grinstead
14.30 Periocular management of paediatric facial palsy
Christina Lim, Maidstone
14.45 Skin around the eye
15.00 Session IV: Trainee focused session
Chaired by Mrs Priya Bhatt, Bolton and Miss Rebecca Ford, Bristol
15.00 New therapies in TED
15.15 Orbital Cellulitis: Observe, Operate, or Panic?
15.30 Measuring treatment outcomes in Thyroid eye disease
15.45 Lacrimal sac swellings: lessons learned
16.00 Sight and life-threatening complications of Evisceration – How worried should I be?
16.15 Q&A
16.25 BOPSS Farewell
Mr. Saj Attaullah, President of BOPSS
16.30 Safe journey home!
