Paediatric ophthalmology: Updates in globally significant ophthalmic disorders and vision therapy

Ms Ameenat Lola Solebo is a Clinical Academic who works as an Epidemiologist at UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (solebo-lola | UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health - UCL – University College London), and as a Consultant Paediatric Ophthalmologist at Great Ormond Street Hospital (Ameenat Lola Solebo | Great Ormond Street Hospital (gosh.nhs.uk). Lola holds a prestigious NIHR Clinician Scientist award, has authored several high impact publications, including reports from the IoLunder2 congenital cataract studies, and contributes to national and international health policy through roles at Public Health England, UNICEF and the WHO. She also leads on several studies on ways to improve outcomes for children with sight threatening eye diseases. Find out more about her here https://medscilife.org/stories/dr-lola-solebo/.

Professor Hammond heads one of the leading groups examining the genetic epidemiology of common eye diseases, including glaucoma, myopia, age-related cataract, dry eye disease and age-related macular degeneration. His research is aiming to deliver personalized, predictive, preventive and participatory medicine, using Omics technology and Big Data analytics with the ultimate aim of reducing blindness and debilitating eye diseases. His research is highly collaborative, and he contributes to international consortia with data from the TwinsUK cohort, UK Biobank and local patient datasets. He is a paediatric ophthalmologist/strabismologist with special interest in adult strabismus and treatments to control myopia.

Dr Agnes Wong, MD, PhD, received her undergraduate degree from Boston University. She then obtained her MD degree from McGill University and completed her residency in Ophthalmology at the University of Toronto, where she also completed a PhD in Neuroscience and clinical fellowship in Neuro-Ophthalmology. Dr. Wong then completed a combined research and clinical fellowship in Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Dr Wong is currently Professor of Ophthalmology, Neurology, and Psychology at the University of Toronto, and an active staff Ophthalmologist and Senior Scientist at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. Dr Wong is the former Ophthalmologist-in-Chief at The Hospital for Sick Children. She is also the former Vice Chair of Research in the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Toronto, where she held the inaugural John and Melinda Thompson Chair in Vision Neuroscience for a decade. In her career as a physician-scientist, Dr Wong has published over 120 peer-reviewed papers and held many prestigious research grants. She has travelled widely as a visiting professor and invited speaker, as well as won many research and teaching awards.

Mr Robert Taylor qualified in 1985 from Guy’s Hospital, London University and worked in Birmingham, Sheffield
and Leeds before taking up a consultant post in York specialising in general, paediatric ophthalmology and adult motility. He has published 55 peer review papers, made 67 oral/poster presentations at scientific meetings, and given 86 lectures, in York, nationally and internationally. Mr Taylor published the two editions Key Topics in Ophthalmology, plus the chapter on vision and reading in a Taylor/Hoyt’s Paediatric Ophthalmology. He was head examiner for FRCOphth Part 2 2011- 2016 and head examiner for Refraction certificate 2008 to 2011. Mr Taylor is  currently the Chair of the examinations committee. A major commitment has been re-structuring the Laser and Refractive surgery examination. He was a Clinical Tutor from 1996 to 2000 before being made clinical director, till 2004. He has also sat on the paediatric ophthalmology subcommittee from 2005 to 2011. 11950302.1 Research interests include refraction accuracy, reading, maximising visual potential in cataract patients and on call. Mr Taylor is also interested in various models of healthcare delivery.