25th Bowman Club Annual Meeting
Scientific Programme
4th April 2025: 08.45 - 17.25 (CPD = 7 hours)
08.45 - 08.55
Welcome - Naing L Tint, Edinburgh, UK
08.55 - 09.45
Bowman Club Fellow's prize award presentations
Chairs:
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Corneal changes in alkaptonuria
Carlo Di Biase, Liverpool, UK
Femtosecond Laser-Assisted CAIRS with novel postoperative slit lamp topographic adjustment technique
Magdalena Niestrata, Colchester, UK
Clinical patterns of fungal keratitis at Moorfields Eye Hospital: A 10-year retrospective observational study (2013-2023)
Rohan Hussain, London, UK
Early intervention may reduce ultrastructural changes in Descemet’s membrane in Fuchs endothelial corneal dystrophy
Matteo Airaldi, Liverpool, UK
09.45 - 10.45
RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS and INTERESTING CASES
Chairs:
Endoart update
Tom Poole, Camberley, UK
Vaccination against shingles and prevention of long-term ocular morbidity - a retrospective study of cost implications to the NHS
Bita Manzouri, Romford, UK
Mitomycin intravascular chemoembolisation (MICE) - treatment for corneal neovascularisation
Martin Watson, London, UK
International corneal and ocular surface disease dataset for electronic health records
Darren Shu Jeng Ting, Birmingham, UK
Case 1: History of LASIK in both eyes, deteriorating vision
Seema Anand, Leeds, UK
Case 2: Eye disease secondary to eczema
Seema Anand, Leeds, UK
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10.45 - 11.15 - Coffee, Posters and Exhibition
11.15 - 13.00
KERATOCONUS
Chairs:
Keratoconus Genetics; Past, Present and Future
Colin Willoughby, Belfast, UK
Defining cut-offs for change in Keratoconus
Stephen Kaye, Liverpool, UK
Update on CXL Plus and rare nightmares after CXL
David O’Brart, London, UK
CXL; Retreatment
Seema Anand, Leeds, UK
CAIRS
Soosan Jacob, Chennai, India
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Discussion
13.00 - 14.00 - Lunch, Posters and Exhibition
14.00 - 14.40
NHS BLOOD & TRANSPLANT SESSION
Chairs:
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Donations and Transplant Activity Update
Cathy Hopkinson, Bristol, UK
Overview of Serious Adverse Events Related to Corneal Transplantation
Ulrike Paulus, Bristol, UK
Update from OTAG and future plans
Parwez Hossain, Southampton, UK
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Questions from the Audience to the Panel
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14.40 - 15.55
SYMPOSIUM ON STEM CELLS AND REGENERATION
Chairs:
Ocular Surface Stem Cells
Rosalind M K Stewart, Aberdeen, UK
Endothelial Regeneration
Hannah Levis, Liverpool, UK
Single Regenerative Medicine Technology Platform for Multiple Corneal Disease
Graziella Pellegrini, Modena, Italy
Discussion
15.55 - 16:20 - Tea, Posters and Exhibition
16.20 - 17.20
EASTY LECTURE: Facing the Challenges of Managing Severe Ocular Surface Disease
2025 Easty Lecturer
Edward J. Holland Biog
Director of Cornea, Cincinnati Eye Institute. Professor of Ophthalmology, University of Cincinnati, USA
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17.20 - 17.25 - Announcement of the Bowman Fellow's Prize and Close - Naing L Tint, Edinburgh, UK
19.00
Bowman Club Drinks and Dinner at The Georgian Tearoom, The Dome
Drinks from 19.00
POSTERS
P1: A case of acanthamoeba keratitis after routine LASIK surgery - Lana Fu, Canterbury, UK
P2: The clinical effectiveness of epithelium-off phototherapeutic keratectomy (PTK) in the management of recurrent corneal erosion syndrome (RCES): Multi-surgeon results - Khayam Naderi, London, UK
P3: Ten-year analysis of microbial keratitis trends in Kent - Sundas Maqsood, Maidstone, UK
P4: Cost effectiveness of the management of ocular surface disease involving inflammation and persistent epithelial defects utilising various treatment modalities in NHS - Sundas Maqsood, Maidstone, UK
P5: Efficacy and safety of intravenous immunoglobulin treatment of ocular Steven Johnson syndrome/toxic epidermal necrolysis in young patients - Jan Sniatecki, Southampton, UK
P6: Secondary glaucoma treatment and graft failure in penetrating keratoplasty for advanced acanthamoeba keratitis: 5 years follow-up -
Jan Sniatecki, Southampton, UK
P7: Anterior segment OCT in fungal keratopathy for effective therapeutic keratoplasty - Rania Rawashdeh, Southampton, UK
P8: Optimising the results of pterygium surgery: A review of current surgical approaches - Devika Tandon, Portsmouth, UK
P9: Off-centred DMEK grafts: Impact and resolution - Davide Romano, Liverpool, UK & Brescia, Italy
P10: Posturing for Descemet membrane endothelial keratoplasty - is there a cut-off? - Poonam Sharma, Exeter, UK
P11: Video-only. When the cornea loses clarity, and the retina does not remain flat - Lana Fu, Canterbury, UK
P12 - e: Cataract surgery through challenging corneas - Ahmed Bardan, Leeds, UK
P13 - e: Preoperative evaluation of angle alpha/kappa for penetrating keratoplasty and DALK - Hatch Mukherjee, Colchester, UK
P14 - e: Efficacy and safety of accelerated trans-epithelial Iontophoretic corneal collagen cross-linking (Accelerated i-CXL-TE) in young patients with progressive keratoconus: 9-year follow-up - Mario Troisi, Naples, Italy
P15 - e: Outcomes of staged conjunctival flap and corneal transplantation for infectious keratitis resistant to medical treatment -
Raphael Kilian, Ferrara, Italy
P16 - e: Long-term outcomes of a novel artificial endothelial replacement membrane - Ofer Daphna, Tel Aviv, Israel