Paediatric Uveitis Symposium
Royal Liverpool Chidren's Hospital (Alder Hey) Education Centre
Friday 11th April 2008 9.30 am to 5.00 pm
| Organisers Gavin Cleary |
Arvind Chandna | |
| Invited Speakers Professor Andrew Dick Mr Jeremy Butcher Dr Roger Bucknall |
Mr Nick Jones |
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Programme: Morning |
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| 9.30 am | Registration and Coffee | |
| 10.00am | Welcome | Arvind Chandna |
| 10.10am | Working Together | John Sills |
| 10.30am | Uveitis Database to share | Usman Saeed |
| 10.50am | Case Presentations | |
| Sympathetic Ophthalmitis | W Newman | |
| Discussion | Andrew Dick | |
| HSV Retinitis | John Durnian | |
| Discussion | Sean Chen | |
| Complicated JIA Associated Uveitis | Sue Goyal Gavin Cleary | |
| Discussion | Nick Jones | |
| 11.50am | Pathways for Management | |
| JIA and associated Uveitis | Gavin Cleary | |
| Non JIA Uveitis | Arvind Chandna | |
| Group Discussion re pathways | Eileen Baildam | |
| Chair | ||
| Sean Chen | ||
| 12.50pm | Working Lunch | |
| Facilitator: Arvind Chandna | ||
| Formation of an Interest Group | ||
| Research opportunities | ||
| Impact of new screening guidelines-different ways of working | ||
| Programme: Afternoon | ||
| Chair: | Eileen Baildam, William Newman | |
| 2.00 pm | Biologics and childhood uveitis: What's the rationale? |
Andrew Dick |
| 2.45pm | Paediatric Intermediate Uveitis | N Jones |
| 3.15pm | Tea | |
| 3.30pm | Does anything useful happen in a DGH? | J Butcher |
| 4.00pm | TBA | Roger Bucknall |
| 4.30pm | Final Discussion - way forwards | Gavin Cleary Arvind Chandna |
| Acknowledgements for Support Abbott Laboratories and Alcon | ||
Testimonials
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Feedback
97% of the delegates responded in the anonymous feedback questionnaire and awarded an excellent grade for quality of 88% and 90% for relevance with an overall rating of 89%
Planning future symposia
A special lunchtime session during the 2008 symposium considered the future of the symposium. The group achieved consensus regarding an annual national symposium, case presentations and a research group. All have been included in the 2009 symposium.