17:30 – 18:15 Reception and fork buffet
18:15 – 18:25 Welcome and introduction
18:25 – 18:45 Commercial research update
Professor Faruque Ghanchi, Consultant Ophthalmologist, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
18:45 – 19:05 First in man enzyme replacement trials for Battens Disease
Mr Robert Henderson MD FRCOphth, Consultant Paediatric Ophthalmologist, Great Ormond Street Hospital
19:05 – 19:25 The eye as a window to the kidney: old concepts, better tools and new horizons
Dr Neeraj Dhaun (Bean), Senior Lecturer in Nephrology & Honorary Consultant Nephrologist, Queen’s Medical Research Institute
19:25 – 19:45 Applying AI approaches to OCT data: the Newcastle experience
Will Innes, Consultant Medical Ophthalmologist, Newcastle Eye Centre, The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Newcastle University
19:45 – 20:10 Artificial Intelligence for the automated detection, monitoring of progression and treatment response of Geographic Atrophy on Optical Coherence Tomography
Konstantinos Balaskas, Consultant Ophthalmologist, Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
