This year’s BIPOSA takes place
on Wednesday 01st – Friday03rd October, 2025
at the West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge
Friday 03rd October
8.00 Registration with refreshments at the posters and trade exhibition
08.40 Welcome and housekeeping – Mr John Somner, Cambridge
08.45 Session I (P)
The Whole Child
Moderated by Professor Rachel Pilling, Bradford
08.45 ARFID and the eye – detection and implications of restrictive diets in children – Mr Richard Bowman, London
09.05 The F-words in CVI – thinking differently about visual function in children with complex disability – Miss Louise Allen, Liverpool
09.25 Visual Behaviours in Neurodiversity – Prof Rachel Pilling, Bradford
09.35 Are they looking? Are they seeing? Identifying children with sensory processing problems in education – Mr Daniel Downes, Salford
09.55 Panel discussion
10.05 Rapid fire presentations – the whole child
Moderated by Professor Rachel Pilling, Bradford
10.05 Neurodivergent Children with Corneal Ulcer – Food for Thought? – Mr Taiwo Makanjuola, Stoke (Abstract ID-130013)
10.10 Evaluation of Usher Syndrome Screening in Children with Bilateral Sensorineural Hearing Loss: A Case Series from a Tertiary Referral Center – Miss Eleanor Kelly, London (Abstract ID-130124)
10.15 Seeing Beyond Vision: The Role of Paediatric Counselling in Ophthalmology Services – Mr Simrun Virdee, London (Abstract ID-130238)
10.20 Can provision of near-vision glasses as an early intervention improve visual outcomes in infants at risk of perinatal brain insult? – Miss Raimonda Bullaj, London (Abstract ID-130242)
10.25 Characterization of persistent Higher Visual Function Deficits (HVFDs) in adults with early-onset Cerebral Visual Impairment (CVI) – Mr Arvind Chandna, Liverpool (Abstract ID-130110)
10.30 Session II (P) (S)
Diversifying the clinical role of orthoptists
Moderated by: Miss Debbie Mullinger, Cambridge & Miss Daisy MacKeith, Cambridge
10.30 Workforce Solutions: What can an ACP do for you? – Prof Charlotte Codina, Sheffield
10.40 Orthoptists in Glaucoma: From Watch out, to Washout, to Wipeout – Mr Connor Beddow, London
10.45 Orthoptics Gets Genetic – Not Just Eye-Rolling – Mr Vijay Tailor-Hamlin, London
10.50 Orthoptists in the NICU?! Whatever next? – Miss Harriet St Ledger, London
10.55 Orthoptic-Led Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension (IIH) Service – Miss Alis Sejourne, London
11.05 Rapid fire presentations
Moderated by: Miss Debbie Mullinger, Cambridge & Miss Daisy McKeith, Cambridge
11.05 Long term outcomes in intermittent distance exotropia: a retrospective comparison of non-surgical management options – Miss Sara Syed, Manchester (Abstract ID-130007)
11.10 Orthoptic-led paediatric eye emergency service: a service evaluation – Miss Rahilah Bukhari, Coventry (Abstract ID-130153)
11.15 Orthoptic-led paediatric ophthalmology clinic: a service review – Ms Gillian Lowdon, Newcastle (Abstract ID-130015)
11.20 De-skilling and dumbing down – an orthoptist fights back – Mrs Tess Garretty, Leeds (Abstract ID-125946)
11.25 Collecting patient reported outcomes in strabismus surgery – lessons from ten years’ worth of questionnaires – Ms Debbie Mullinger, Cambridge (Abstract ID-130111)
11.30 Refreshments at the e-posters and the trade exhibition
12.00 Session III (S)
Rapid fire presentations
Moderated by Mr Narman Puvanachandra, Norwich & Miss Tina Kipioti, Birmingham
12.00 Analysis of Intravitreal Bevacizumab injections for Retinopathy of Prematurity: Long term outcomes following a paradigm shift in treatment – Dr Nisheeta Patnaik, Birmingham (Abstract ID-125935)
12.05 Botulinum toxin injection in paediatric esotropia: does it work, does it last and does the aetiology matter? – Miss Elisabeth de Smit, London (Abstract ID-130058)
12.10 Efficacy of Botulinum Toxin Injections in Primary Decompensating Strabismus in Children: A Retrospective Cohort Study – Mr Martin Chi Kit Yan, Manchester (Abstract ID-130121)
12.15 Evaluation of the botulinum toxin service and correlation of QOL to treat adult strabismus in Moorfields Eye Hospital – Miss Leena Patel, London (Abstract ID-130250)
12.20 Response to First-Time Toxin in Adult Strabismus – Miss Alice Donnachie, London (Abstract ID-130159)
12.25 The effect of surgical dose and muscle selection on alignment in horizontal strabismus surgery – Mr Rahul Makam, Cambridge (Abstract ID-130206)
12.30 Strabismus surgery under local anaesthesia at a tertiary eye hospital: a 5-year case review – Mr James Miller, London (Abstract ID-130237)
12.35 Evaluation of Optic Disc Findings in Children Undergoing OCT Disc Scans for Suspected Papilloedema in a Tertiary Centre – Mr Mohammad Ali, Norwich (Abstract ID-130314)
12.40 Nonsurgical Consecutive Exotropia Following Childhood Esotropia: A Multicentered Study – Miss Coralie Hemptinne, Canada (Abstract ID-130335)
12.45 BIPOSA 2026 at Liverpool
12.55 BIPOSA Research Awards – Prof Chris Hammond, London
13.00 BIPOSA David Laws Travel Awards – Mr Bob Taylor, President of BIPOSA
13.05 BIPOSA David Laws Travel Award Winner 2024 – Mr Michael Gilhooley
13.15 AGM BIPOSA members ONLY followed by lunch at the posters and exhibition
13.15 Lunch at the posters and trade exhibition for non-members of BIPOSA
14.15 Session IV (P)
GOSH-ICH Claud Worth Rising Star award introduced by Professor Chris Lloyd, London
Counting everything, and everyone counts: Applying epidemiology and data science to childhood eye disorders
Ameenat Lola Solebo, Wellcome Clinician Scientist / Honorary Consultant Ophthalmologist, UCL GOS Institute of Child Health / Great Ormond Street Hospital, London
14.45 Session V (S)
Controversies and debates
Moderated by Mr Narman Puvanachandra, Norwich & Miss Tina Kipioti, Birmingham
14.45 Are we teaching strabismus surgery all wrong? Mr John Ferris, Cheltenham
15.00 What I do when conventional amblyopia treatments have failed and time is running out – Mr Patrick Watts, Cardiff
15.15 Genomic testing is simpler than ever, we should all do it ……really? Mr Jay Self, Southampton
15.35 Are we doing strabismus surgery all wrong? Mr John Somner, Cambridge
15.45 Toronto Fellowships – Should we steal their playbook? Mr Andrew Malem, Abu Dhabi
15.55 Is the place for routine vision testing the home? Miss Sally Painter, Birmingham
16.05 DEBATE: The inferior oblique myectomy and aging consultant strabismologists should never retire – For Ian Marsh, Liverpool Against Anthony Vivian, Cambridge