Scientific Meeting – Day one
Thursday 18th June 2026
08.00-10.00
Basic Oculoplastics (OCP) Procedures for medical students, F1 & F2 and trainees ST1-ST5 (ticketed event) held at Royal Hallamshire Hospital
08.00- 10.00
Advanced Oculoplastics (OCP) Procedures for ST5 & ST6, TSC and Fellows held at Royal Hallamshire Hospital
08.00 Registration with tea, coffee and pastries at the exhibition, posters and videos in the Ballroom
Oval Hall
08.45 Welcome, housekeeping and introductions
Sheffield team
09.00 Free paper presentations
Chaired by Ms Tarang Gupta, London
09:35 Questions and moderator round up
09:45 Keynote:
Oncological principles in the management of orbital tumours can optimise the outcomes on non-oncological cases
10.15 Free paper presentations
Chaired by Ms Tarang Gupta, London
Department of Ocular Oncology and Oculoplasty,
Centre for Sight, Hydrabad
11.00 Refreshments with tea, coffee and biscuits at the exhibition, posters and videos in the Ballroom
11.30 Upper eyelid laxity: Floppy eyelid syndrome
Dr Lindsay McGrath, Australia
11.45 Lower eyelid /medial canthal tendon laxity
University Hospital of Aintree
12.00 Keynote:
Eyelid /ocular surface rehabilitation in facial palsy / combined facial and other CN palsy
Los Angeles
12.30 – 13.30
Lunch at the exhibition, posters and videos in the Ballroom
13.30 Session: Personal Perspectives
Chaired by Miss Fiona Robinson, London and Miss Ruth Darbyshire, Harrogate
13.30 How to train your trainee!
Miss Zanna Currie, Sheffield
13.50 How long can I go before I get sued?
Brighton
14.10 How to cope…. ?
Sheffield
14.30 What I learned along the way
London
15.00 Refreshments with tea, coffee and biscuits at the exhibition, posters and videos in the Ballroom
15.30 Session: Orbit
Chaired by Mr Jimmy Uddin, London and Mr Raghavan Sampath, Leicester
15.30 Vascular tumours in children
15.50 Non-malignant orbital tumours in adults
16.10 Transorbital and endoscopic surgery – past present and future
Groote Schuur Hospital, South Africa
16.30 Unbalanced orbital decompression in TED: devil’s advicate
LV Prasad Eye Institute, India
16.50 Thyroid Eye Disease: personal perspective from California
Los Angeles
17.10 Panel discussion
17.30 AGM for full BOPSS members only
18.15 Venue close
