Event Details
Date: 16 March 2024

Time: 09:00

Location name: Manchester, UK

Location address: John Dalton Building, Business School, Manchester Metropolitan University, Chester Street Manchester M1 5GD


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Esme's Umbrella is pleased to announce an information day for all patients, carers and families affected by Charles Bonnet Syndrome (CBS). Refreshments and lunch are available throughout the day.

 

It promises to be a relaxed and friendly day with excellent speakers and opportunities to ask questions. Everyone is welcome and carers and family members are encouraged to attend too.

 

Added Movie Screening: The final cut of Aspectum - a film about living with the vivid, silent, visual hallucinations that are caused when Charles Bonnet Syndrome develops after sight loss.

 

Speakers:
Judith Potts (Founder of Esme’s Umbrella)
Dr Jasleen Jolly (Fellow of the College of Optometrists, Senior Clinical Research Fellow and optometrist in the University of Oxford’s Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences)
Gayle Barrow (Instructor/Researcher at Medical Detection Dogs)
Nina Chesworth (Projects and Campaigns Coordinator Visionary. Lived Experience of CBS)
Miles Northwood (Former England Blind Cricketer, now Community Fundraiser for Guide Dogs)
Dr Lee Jones (CBS Researcher)

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