PROGRAM

Program as of 26.03.2024
program is subject to change

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7.30 am REGISTRATION
SESSION 1 | WHAT I LEARNT AT CONFERENCES
(8.30 am – 10.30 am)
FACILITATOR / CHAIRS Dr William Yates
8.30 am – 8.40 am ASM Welcome & Welcome to Country
A/Professor Ashish Agar
8.40 am – 8.50 am Cataract: ESCRS
Dr Tanya Trinh
8.50 am – 9.00 am Glaucoma: WGC
A/Professor Andrew White
9.00 am – 9.10 am Geographic Atrophy Update: EURETINA/APVRS
Professor Adrian Fung
9.10 am – 9.20 am Cornea
Professor Stephanie Watson
9.20 am – 9.30 am Strabismus Surgery, and “Young Ophthalmologist” perspectives
Dr Parth Shah
9.30 am – 9.40 am What I learnt at conferences – Oculoplastics
Dr Krishna Tumuluri
9.40 am – 10.00 am Panel discussion
10.00 am – 10.30 am Indigenous Guest Speaker: What Comes after No
Dr Louis Peachey
10.30 am – 10.55 am MORNING TEA
SESSION 2  | KEYNOTE / REAL WORLD OPHTHALMOLOGY, THE PATIENT’S EXPERIENCE
(10.55 am – 12.20 pm)
FACILITATOR / CHAIRS Dr Alina Zeldovich & A/Professor Ashish Agar
10.57 am – 11.00 am Bayer
Leigh Rumble, Territory Manager
11.00 am – 11.30 am Keynote: Insight over Eyesight – The Journey on Becoming the UK’s first deafblind Doctor
Alexandra Adams
11.30 am – 11.50 am Q&A
11.50 am – 12.00 pm Meeting the Unmet Needs of People who have Low Vision
Annette Clarke, Guide Dogs Australia
12.00 pm – 12.10 pm Extending care beyond the clinic – introducing a novel patient support program for people with macular disease
Dilini Manthilaka, Macular Disease Foundation Australia
12.10 pm – 12.20 pm Glaucoma and the 5 stages of grief
Richard Wylie
12.20 pm – 1.20 pm LUNCH
SESSION 3  |  RANZCO (closed session)
(1.20 pm – 3.00 pm)
FACILITATOR / CHAIRS Dr Robert Griffiths & Professor Stephanie Watson
1.20 pm – 1.30 pm NSW branch update
A/Professor Ashish Agar
1.30 pm – 1.35 pm RANZCO Update
Mark Carmichael
1.35 pm – 1.45 pm ASO Update – Challenges we are facing in 2024
Dr Peter Sumich
1.45 pm – 1.55 pm The magic of small incision cataract surgery
Clinical Professor Nitin Verma
1.55 pm – 2.05 pm AVR update
Professor Stephanie Watson
2.05 pm – 2.10 pm Binocular vision: Chameleon or Lockstep
A/Professor Michael Hennessy
2.10 pm – 2.15 pm Relations with the government since the MBS review
Dr Brad Horsburgh
2.15 pm – 2.25 pm CPD update
Bianca Queisser
2.25 pm – 2.35 pm An ANZEF lens on pursuing eye health equity and access
Paula Llavallol
2.35 pm – 2.40 pm Sydney Eye Hospital Foundation and Outreach Service Update
A/Professor Michael Hennessy, Dr Gerard Sutton and Joanna Barton
2.40 pm – 3.00 pm Discussion: Real World Challenges
3.00 pm – 3.30 pm AFTERNOON TEA
SESSION 4  | REAL WORLD OPHTHALMOLOGY IN PRACTICE
(3.30 pm – 4.30 pm)
FACILITATOR / CHAIRS Dr Diana Semmonds & Dr Alok Sharma
3.30 pm – 4.00 pm Con Moshegov Lecture: Corneal regeneration “Revolution in Evolution”: stem cells, hydrogels, & 3D bioprinting
Dr Sayan Basu
4.00 pm – 4.15 pm Developing a public Eye Service
Dr Kate Reid
4.15 pm – 4.35 pm How do I get a registrar out here? Setting up a regional training position
Dr David Moore, Dr Peter Hinchcliffe, Dr Phoebe Moore, Jeanne Gunzinger
4.35 pm – 5.15 pm POSTER AND COCKTAIL FUNCTION
5.30 pm – 9.00 pm ASM DINNER
8.00 am REGISTRATION
SESSION 5  |  REAL WORLD CLINICAL EXAMINATION TIPS
(8.30 am – 10.15 am)
FACILITATOR / CHAIRS Dr Hamish Dunn & Dr Saadiah Goolam
8.30 am – 8.35 am Day 2 Welcome
A/Professor Ashish Agar
8.35 am – 8.45 am Cataract examination Red Flags
Dr Alina Zeldovich
8.45 am – 8.55 am Cornea
Dr Ravi Singh
8.55 am – 9.05 am Retina – Examination of the peripheral retina – when you don’t have wide field imaging
Dr Anthony Hall
9.05 am – 9.15 am Glaucoma- Examination pearls- including the dreaded gonioscopy!
Dr Hamish Dunn
9.15 am – 9.25 am Pediatric Eye Exam – Not Kid’s Play
Dr Shivram Nadkarni
9.25 am – 9.35 am Oculoplastics- Practical orbit and plastics examination
Dr David McKeag
9.35 am – 9.45 am The need, or lack thereof, for Ophthalmologists to spend 85 seconds testing Cranial Nerves
A/Professor Ian Francis
9.45 am – 10.15 am Discussion
10.15 am – 10.45 am MORNING TEA
SESSION 6  |  REAL WORLD DIAGNOSTIC TIPS
(10.45 am – 12.30 pm)
FACILITATOR / CHAIRS Dr Ridia Lim & Dr Robert Chong
10.45 am – 10.55 am The Lens – how do we choose? Material, geometry and handling, optical design, fashion…
Dr Patrick Versace
10.55 am – 11.05 am My top clinical diagnostic pearls for Corneal disease
A/Professor Con Petsoglou
11.05 am – 11.15 am When should I use OCTA with Uveitis?
Dr Elisa Cornish
11.15 am – 11.25 am Real world visual field tips
Dr Ridia Lim
11.25 am – 11.35 am Neuro-ophthalmology – Why I check my own neuroimaging and what to look for
A/Professor Mitchell Lawlor
11.35 am – 11.45 am Oculoplastics- What I do when I suspect orbital pathology (examination and diagnostics)
Dr Megha Kaushik
11.45 am – 11.55 am Managing Dry Eye Disease: The good, the bad, and the ugly
Dr Sayan Basu
11.55 am – 12.30 pm Discussion
12.30 pm – 1.30 pm LUNCH 
SESSION 7  |  REAL WORLD MANAGEMENT TIPS
(1.30 pm – 3.35 pm)
FACILITATOR / CHAIRS Professor Mark Gillies & Dr Caroline Catt
1.30 pm – 1.45 pm Simple Limbal Epithelial Transplantation (SLET) for Limbal Stem Cell Deficiency (LSCD): Everything you wanted to know and more
Dr Sayan Basu
1.45 pm – 1.55 pm A general ophthalmologists guide to the cornea
A/Professor Chameen Samarawickrama
1.55 pm – 2.10 pm IIH – identifying the 1 patient in 5 who needs a procedure
Dr Kate Reid
2.10 pm – 2.20 pm Is 20/20 good enough in 2024?
A/Professor Smita Agrawal
2.20 pm – 2.30 pm Retina
Professor Mark Gillies
2.30 pm – 2.40 pm Real world challenges in managing Glaucoma in the outback
A/Prof Ashish Agar
2.40 pm – 2.50 pm Practical Myopia Management
Dr Caroline Catt
2.50 pm – 3.00 pm Oculoplastics – Ectropion/entropion modern techniques for the general ophthalmologist
Dr Peter Hinchcliffe
3.00 pm – 3.10 pm
“Don’t panic: posterior uveitis for the general”(+/- rural) ophthalmologist
Dr Phoebe Moore
3.10 pm – 3.30 pm Discussion
3.30 pm – 3.35 pm Prize winner announcements and concluding remarks
A/Prof Ashish Agar
3.35 pm ASM CLOSE