About this event
- Date and time Fri 3 Jul 2026 from 9:00am to 4:30pm
- Location Royal Society of Medicine
- Organised by Ophthalmology, London Ophthalmology Network
Join the RSM for a one-day conference with the Ophthalmology Section to showcase work by eyecare multi-disciplinary teams, medical students and resident doctors. This event features a series of interactive workshops, with full details available here. Please state your preferred workshop 1, 2 or 3 when booking.
1. Workshop 1: Surgical Rotational Workstations
2. Workshop 2: Retinal Laser QUILT simulation
3. Workshop 3: Rotational interactive workstations
The RSM will then contact you separately to confirm your specific workstation selection.
This programme aims to create a collaborative environment that reflects how ophthalmic care is delivered in practice by allowing attendees to participate in supervised wet-lab practical sessions and present their oral and poster presentations. By learning side by side, students, residents and MDT professionals will gain insight into each other’s roles while developing academic confidence, procedural skills and professional networks.
This event is designed to support early-career development by providing opportunities to present work, receive constructive feedback and build practical competence in a setting that enables meaningful interaction, hands-on learning and multidisciplinary collaboration. Additionally, this conference will conclude with a keynote presentation - 'Modern Medicine' - from Dr Rossby Awadzi, MBChB, MSc, BSc (Hons), a doctor and healthcare educator whose work spans clinical practice, research, national clinical fellowships and health innovation.
Why attend?
- Opportunity to present work, receive feedback, develop practical skills and engage in face-to-face professional discussion within a supportive academic setting.
- Brings together students, residents and multidisciplinary eyecare specialists to work together collaboratively to demonstrate this sections long-standing commitment to early-career development.
- Engage with oral and poster presentation and hands on wet-lab training.
- Recognise academic excellence across students, residents and MDT through prize-giving presentations.
Aims of the event
- Support early-career development in Ophthalmology through feedback and skills training.
- Promote multidisciplinary learning and collaboration in Ophthalmic care.
- Restore and enhance face-to-face educational engagement within the Section.
- Keynote lectures will offer contemporary perspectives on how medicine is practiced and experienced today to encourage reflection on purpose, teamwork and inclusive practice across professional roles.
Learning objectives
- Present and critically appraise ophthalmic research, audit or service improvement work in an academic forum.
- Apply practical ophthalmic skills and techniques safely and effectively in a supervised wet-lab environment.
- Demonstrate improved understanding of multidisciplinary team working in ophthalmology and its contribution to high-quality patient care.
- Learning will be delivered through oral presentations, poster sessions, supervised wet-lab workshops and facilitated discussion.
Who should attend?
- Medical students with an interest in ophthalmology.
- Resident doctors in ophthalmology.
- Members of the ophthalmic multidisciplinary team involved in eye care.
*Some imagery has been kindly provided by Alex Ingram
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Tickets
Standard pricing available until 02 July 2026.
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RSM Associate
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£35.75
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£35.75
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RSM Resident Doctor
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£35.75
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RSM Retired Fellow
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£35.75
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RSM Student
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Non - Member
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| £176.00 | £105.00 | £105.00 | £55.00 |
Agenda
View the programme
Registration, tea and coffee
Welcome and introduction
Chairs:
Miss Evelyn Mensah, President, Ophthalmology Section, Royal Society of Medicine
Mr Christopher Way, University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation
Ms Sharita Jhummun, Optometrist, Digital Ophthalmology Programme Manager, North West London Acute Provider Group and Chair, London Ophthalmology Network (LON)
Ms Resitha Airey, Co-Founder, London Ophthalmology Network (LON)
Morning: Academic programme
Smartphone-verified ophthalmoscopy to identify persistent 'invisible errors': Proof of concept study
Dr Alexa Korb, Imperial College Healthcare Trust
Anatomical success does not guarantee visual recovery: Outcomes of vitreoretinal surgery in proliferative vitreoretinopathy
Mr Palaniappan Muthiah, University of Sheffield
A systematic review of long-term neurocognitive outcomes in paediatric retinoblastoma survivors
Ms Ashley Jia Ying Lim, University College Dublin
Spaceflight ophthalmology and an analysis of the ocular toxicity risk of medications used aboard the international space station
Dr Anjali Gaston, Imperial College NHS Healthcare Trust, Hammersmith Hospital
Understanding the extent of visual snow type symptoms in inherited retinal disease
Dr Ameerah Ilyas, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
A simple clinical risk score for predicting poor visual outcome in bacterial keratitis
Mr Khawaja Muhammad Ammar Ali Javed, Birmingham and Midland Eye Centre; University of Birmingham
Beyond visual acuity: Retinal sensitivity and vision - related quality of life in sickle cell maculopathy
Mr Busaraben Gandhi, London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust
Topical rho kinase inhibitors as a perioperative adjunct in fuchs endothelial corneal dystrophy: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Dr Ali Alseneid, William Harvey Hospital
Tea and coffee break
Challenging the "benign" assumption of optic neuritis-onset multiple sclerosis: A clinicopathological study of regional pathological vulnerability
Dr Jaskaran Singh Bhangu, Swansea University
Early real-world outcomes of aflibercept 8mg in previously treated neovascular age-related macular degeneration
Dr Barnaby Carr, Maidstone Tunbridge Wells Trust
Can generative artificial intelligence safely detect sight-threatening ophthalmic emergencies? A comparative vignette-based triage study of chatgpt, gemini and copilot
Ms Danae Tavlaridis, Brunel Medical School
Neuro-ophthalmic surveillance in non-functioning pituitary adenomas with optic pathway compression: A systematic review of practice variation and emerging structural biomarkers
Mr Shameer Mohamed Naleer
Plastic compressed sclera-choroid bilayer hydrogel constructs: An early-stage in-vitro model for post-natal eye growth and myopia
Mr Jungho Min, University of East Anglia, University College London, Institute of Ophthalmology
Vaccination against shingles and prevention of long-term ocular morbidity - a retrospective study of cost implications to the NHS
Ms Alice Ditchfield, Western Eye Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Orbital and periorbital hidrocystomas: A case report and systematic review
Mr Muskan Nafis
The price of entry: A cost analysis of building a competitive ophthalmology Speciality Training year 1 portfolio in the United Kingdom
Mr S'ad Shaikh, Princess Alexandra Hospital
Rapid improvement in glycaemic control and the effects on diabetic retinopathy over a 5-year period in Gloucestershire
Ms Esther Samuel, North Wales Medical School, Bangor University
Lunch
Poster viewing
Afternoon: Practical programme
Parallel wet-lab workshops - please review workshops in the event description
This event features a series of interactive workshops, with full details available here. Please state your preferred workshop 1, 2 or 3 when booking. The RSM will then contact you separately to confirm your specific workstation selection.
Please note that participants registered on for this workshop will be contacted to finalise their workstation choices.
Tea and coffee break
Closing session
Chair: Miss Evelyn Mensah
Modern medicine
Dr Rossby Awadzi, MBChB, MSc, BSc (Hons), Doctor, GP Registrar, Clinical Research Fellow, NHSE Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia Clinical Fellow & NHS CEP
Questions and answers
Oral presentation prize winner 2025 Submission
Dr Arun Thirunavukarasu, NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow in Ophthalmology
Shared prize-giving
Closing remarks
Drinks reception
Location
Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole St, Marylebone, London, W1G 0AE, United Kingdom
Registration for this event will close at 1:00am on 2 July 2026. Late registrations will not be accepted.
The agenda is subject to change.
Where the event is recorded, only presentations for which permission has been granted will be made available after the event. The availability of recordings is at the discretion of the speakers and the Royal Society of Medicine. Recordings may be distributed in the future via RSM digital channels.
All views expressed at this event are those of the individual speakers and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Royal Society of Medicine or the speakers’ organisations.