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25th Bowman Club Annual Meeting

Scientific Programme

4th April 2025: 08.45 - 17.25 (CPD = 7 hours)

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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

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