ATE & RECENT ADVANCES DAY
Wednesday 25th June 2025
08.30
Registration with tea, coffee and pastries and exhibition in the Corn Exchange
09.15
Welcome, housekeeping and introductions
Brighton team
09.25 Session I: Lids
Chaired by
09.30 Update on blepharospasm
09.45 Upper eyelid retraction in TED
10.00 Managing the eyelid in MMP
10.15 Periocular Dermatitis: Atopy and Allergy
10.30 Tarsal ectropion review and management
Raghavan Sampath, Leicester
10.45 Preputial skin graft
11.00 – 11:30
Tea, Coffee and posters at the trade exhibition in the Corn Exchange
11.30 Session II: Misc
Chaired by
11.30 KEYNOTE: Complex Endoscopic DCRs (Video-based)
12.00 Immunotherapy in SCC
12.15 Post op conjunctival chemosis
12.30 Management of severely contracted sockets
12.50 – 14.00
Lunch break in the Corn Exchange
14.00 Session III: Orbit
Chaired by
14.00 Update on TONES
Reema Kumari, Birmingham
14.20 Vascular lesions of the orbit: conceptual approach and advances in treatment
Diego Strianese, Italy
14.40 Monoclonals
Jonathan Norris, Oxford
15.00 KEYNOTE Burning Muscles (myositis)
15.30 – 16:00
Tea, Coffee at the trade exhibition in the Corn Exchange
16.00 Session IV: Cosmetic/Brow
Chaired by
16.00 KEYNOTE Optimizing Lower Lid Blepharoplasty
16.30 Avoiding asymmetry in upper lid blepharoplasty
Austin McCormick, Liverpool
16.45 Update on orbital fractures
17.00 The Changing World of Aesthetics: Moving Beyond Toxins and Fillers
17.15 Transgender facial surgery
Nik Maini, Maxillofacial Surgeon, Brighton
17.30 Meeting Close
17.45 Welcome Reception at the Royal Pavillion
19.30 Evening free
SCIENTIFIC MEETING
DAY ONE
Thursday 26th June 2025
07.00 Social activities at West pier beach – choose from yoga, 5km run or sea swim
08.00 Registration with tea, coffee and pastries and exhibition in the Corn Exchange
08.45 Welcome, housekeeping and introductions
Brighton team
08.55 Session I: Free paper presentations
09.00 Rapid fire papers
09.40 Opening the Septum in Upper Blepharoplasty
09.50 Rapid fire papers continued
10.30 KEYNOTE High SMAS Facelifting for the Oculoplastic Surgeon
11.00 – 11.30
Tea, Coffee at the trade exhibition in the Corn Exchange
Ask the experts – medicolegal cases (pre-booking essential limited places available)
11.30 Session II: Round Table
12.30 – 13.30
Lunch at the trade exhibition in the Corn Exchange
13.30 Session III: Lids/paeds
Chaired by
13.30 Endo style brow lift – what I have learned
Guy Masri, USA (by Zoom)13.55 Frontalis flap – UK experience, practical tips
14.10 Congenital Eyelid disorders
Vladimir Kratky, Canada/Czech Republic
14.25 Paediatric eyelid reconstruction
14.40 KEYNOTE: Pupil friction
15.10 – 15.45
Tea, Coffee at the trade exhibition in the Corn Exchange
15.45 Session IV: Endoscopic
Chaired by
15.45 Update on endoscopic orbital decompression
16.00 Endo DCR challenges – difficult stages
Chris Schulz, London
16.15 Pushing the Boundaries of Oculoplastic Surgery: New Frontiers in Endoscopic Surgery
16.30 Sentinel Node Biopsy: who, why and how
16.45 KEYNOTE: How we decoded the Etiopathogenesis of Dacryolithiasis?
17.15 AGM for full BOPSS members only
18.15 Close
19.00 BOPSS 25th Anniversary meal and disco at The Shelter Hall
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME
DAY TWO
Friday 27th June 2025
8.00 Registration with tea, coffee and pastries and exhibition in the Corn Exchange
08.45 Welcome, housekeeping and introductions
Brighton team
08.55 Session I: Free paper presentations
Chaired by
09.00 Rapid fire papers
09.40 Periocular burns management
Baljit Dheansa, Consultant Plastic Surgeon, East Grinstead
09.50 Rapid fire papers continued
10.30 KEYNOTE: Imposters in the orbit
11.00 – 11.30
Tea, Coffee at the trade exhibition in the Corn Exchange
Ask the experts – clinical cases (pre-booking essential limited places available)
11.30 Session II: Tech
Chaired by
11.30 KEYNOTE: Dacryology – what new did we do in 2024?
12.00 KEYNOTE: Augmented Reality using Spatial Computer in Oculoplastic Surgery
12.30 – 13.30
Lunch at the trade exhibition in the Corn Exchange
13.30 BOPSS Annual Prizegiving
13.45 Sheffield 2026
14.00 Session III: Facial Palsy
Chaired by
14.00 Update on facial therapy
14.15 Facial Palsy
Charles Nduka, Consultant Plastic Surgeon, East Grinstead
14.30 Periocular management of paediatric facial palsy
Christina Lim, Maidstone
14.45 Skin around the eye
15.00 Session III: Trainee focused session
Chaired by
15.00 New therapies in TED
15.15 TBC
15.30 Measuring treatment outcomes in Thyroid eye disease
15.45 Lacrimal sac swellings: lessons learned
16.00 Sight and life-threatening complications of Evisceration – How worried should I be?
16.15 Q&A
16.25 BOPSS Farewell
Mr. Saj Attaullah, President of BOPSS
16.30 Safe journey home!
Oculoplastic Nursing Course 2025
08.30 Registration with tea, coffee and pastries and exhibition in the Corn Exchange
09.15 Welcome, housekeeping and introductions
09.20 Overview of Oculoplastic Nursing
Dimitra Gkika
09.35 Wound dressing
Chris Schulz
10:00 An introduction to oculoplastic anatomy
Meydan Ben Ishai
10:30 Botulinum toxin
Aoife Naughton
10:45 Comfort break with exhibition and posters in the Corn Exchange
11:15 Local anaesthetics
Peter Garside
11:45 Human factors and team leadership in the operating theatre
Alex Tanner
12:00 A rough guide to skin lesions
Colin Vize
12:20 Consenting patients
Alex Tanner
12:30 Lunch break in the Corn Exchange
13:30 Suturing and suture removal
Sarith Makuloluwe
14:10 Chalazion I&C & steroid injections
Naeem Haq
14:40 Biopsies – Shave, excision and punch
Simerdip Kaur
15:10 Lacrimal Syringing
Malik Moledina
15:30 Comfort break, exhibition and posters in the Corn Exchange
16:00 Cosmetic/Brow – join main auditorium for Keynote session
17:30 END OF DAY
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