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Yorkshire Retina Society Winter Meeting

The last full day meeting hosted by the York Team.

Meeting program for the day was as follows:

9.00 Registration and Coffee

 

9.25 Welcome note. Meeting Chair Richard Gale

Symposium: New therapies for nAMD

Chair Miss Nicola Topping

9.30 Is 16 weeks dosing the new expectation in AMD? Experience with emerging therapies. Dr David Brown, Retinal Consultants of Texas.

David Brown’s attendance has been supported through Bayer sponsorship of the YRS meeting. Bayer has had no input to the content of Dr Brown’s presentation.

9.55 ‘Anatomical Endpoints with Dual Inhibition: How important are they'? #

Dr Dilsher Dhoot, California Retina Consultant.

Roche Products Limited has provided financial support for this meeting but has had no involvement in the agenda other than this organised presentation. This is a promotional session and will include discussions about Roche products.

10.20 Discussion

Debate 1: addressing unmet needs in nAMD. Chair: Mrs Archana Airody

Time for a co-ordinated screening programme for nAMD in the UK

10.35 Yes. Richard Gale, York

10.45 No. Peter Scanlon, Oxford

10.55 Discussion

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Debate 2: A virtual service should be the mainstay of managing patients with AMD.

11.35 Yes. Louise Downey, Hull

11.45 No Tariq Aslam, Manchester

11.55 Discussion

12.05 Lecture: Automated detection of treatable Macular Disease in the community; is it coming soon Pearse Keane, Moorfields Eye Hospital

12.25 Discussion

12:30 Lunch and Exhibition

Symposium: Update in the Management of Uveitis Chair: Greg Heath

13.30 Assessing Endpoints in Uveitis: measuring what matters: Nick Beare

13.45 Discussion:

13.55 Emerging therapies in Uveitis : treating what matters:  Nick Beare

14.05 Discussion

Case presentations: Contemporary AMD or Uveitis Cases

Chair : Divya Venugopal 

(7 min presentations, 3 min questions)

14.15 – Presentations

Debate 3: Complement inhibition therapies for Geographic Atrophy will be a paradigm shift.

14.45 Yes, Ian Pearce, Liverpool

14.55 No, James Talks, Newcastle

15.05 Discussion

Coffee

Keynote presentations Chair: Richard Gale

15.45 Which Cell and Gene therapies will be in clinical practice within 5 years?

Dilsher Dhoot, California Retina Consultants

16.05 Managing side effects of emerging therapies for AMD. David Brown

David Brown’s attendance has been supported through Bayer sponsorship of the YRS meeting. Bayer has had no input to the content of Dr Brown’s presentation.

16.25 Discussion ‘Ask the experts’.

16.45 Summary and close.

Online Registration is closed
Meeting Evaluation is now closed
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