This year’s BIPOSA takes place
on Wednesday 30th September – Friday02nd October, 2026
at the Titanic Hotel, Stanley Dock, Liverpool
Wednesday 30th September 2026
08.00 Registration with refreshments at the trade exhibition
08.45 Welcome and housekeeping
Mr Damien Yeo, Alder Hey Children’s Hospital
08.55 Session I (P)
Our role within Paediatrics: do they need us?
Moderated by Ms Rutika Dodeja, Alder Hey Children’s Hospital
08.57 10 eye signs that can save a child’s life – Professor Ken Nischal, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, USA
09.09 Why look at the posterior segment? – Professor Jane Ashworth, Manchester Royal Eye Hospital
09.21 Saccadic eye movements in children – health and disease – Professor Patrick Watts, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff
09.33 Do geneticists need us? – Professor Jay Self, University Hospital of Southampton
09.45 Questions
10.00 Session II (P)
Paediatric Uveitis Cases: When it is not JIA
Moderated by Mr Jose Gonzalez-Martin, Alder Hey Children’s Hospital and Miss Lola Solebo, Institute of Child Health, London
10.02 “Just another papilloedema referral, or more?” – Mr Jose Gonzalez-Martin, Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, Liverpool
10.12 “The eyes that break the rules: listening for the clues” – Miss Lola Solebo, Institute of Child Health, London
10.22 “Another optic nerve head drusen? DON’T give up” – Miss Jessy Choi, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield
10.32 “Friendly fire in paediatric ocular oncology” – Mr Sam Gurney, Birmingham Children’s Hospital, Birmingham
10.42 “Inflammation, imitation, or inheritance” – Ms Ana Rodriguez Martinez, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London
10.52 Questions
10.55 Refreshments at the trade exhibition and posters
11.35 Session III (P)
ROP and Retina
Moderated by Mr CK Patel, Oxford Eye Hospital
11.37 Dexamethasone drops for the treatment of ROP – Dr Lotta Gränse, Lund University, Sweden
11.49 Evolution of the management of ROP – Mr Himanshu Patel, Moorfields Eye Hospital
12.01 Questions
12.10 ROP and retina free paper presentations
Moderated by Mr CK Patel, Oxford Eye Hospital
12.11 Retinopathy of Prematurity in a multiethnic UK population: impact of ethnicity on severity, treatment and discharge – Alice Di Domenico, Sally Painter, Birmingham Women’s Hospital, Birmingham, UK
12.18 Automated detection of plus disease in Retinopathy of Prematurity: validation of ROP.AI against expert consensus – Elewys Hearne, Amelia Bai, Shuan Dai, Jacky Hung, James E Elder, Shaheen Shah, Heather Russell, Aditi Kirpalani, Christopher Carty, Zachary Tan, Queensland Children’s Hospital, Brisbane, Australia
12.25 The Liverpool ROP score: development and independent validation of a novel predictive model to dafely optimise Retinopathy of Prematurity screening – Bernardo Lopes, Carolyn Armstrong, Sarah Tyson, Hannah Triggs, Rutika Dodeja, Natalie Gallagher, Nihal Kenawy, Damien Yeo, Liverpool Women’s University Hospital, Liverpool, UK
12.32 Feasibility of nurse-led retinal imaging for Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP) screening employing the Optos California – Venughanan Manikavasagar, Timothy Fung, Shalini Ojha, Roger Holden, Matthew Kuet, Janine Abramson, Royal Derby Hospital, Derby, UK
12.39 Optic nerve head morphology in premature infants from 30 weeks to 5 years post menstrual age using hand-held Optical Coherence Tomography – Aarti Patel, Samira Anwar, Irene Gottlob, Frank Proudlock, Ulverscroft Eye Unit, University of Leicester, UK
12.46 A vitreous state of affairs: ten years of paediatric vitreoretinal surgery at a tertiary children’s hospital in the UK – Tracie Liu, Jessy Choi, Raquel Garcia-Cabrera, Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield, UK
12.53 Moderator’s round up
13.00 -14.20 Lunch at the trade exhibition and posters
13.25 – 14.05 Poster village – presentations of selected posters
13.25 Poster village taking place during lunchtime – rapid fire presentation of selected posters located at the Mezzanine – Moderator’s introduction by Miss Megan Wood
13.30 Ethnic differences in Vitamin D insufficiency in Paediatric Non-Infectious Uveitis Patients – Christopher Lau, Gabrielle Dobson, Theonymfi Doudouliaki, Nadia Rafiq, Ailsa Ritchie, Vinay Shivamurthy, Joshua Harvey, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, London, UK
13.35 Ophthalmological Surveillance for Tuberous Sclerosis Syndrome – Rebecca Hoggard, Jose Gonzalez-Martin, Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, Liverpool UK
13.40 Artificial Intelligence for Detecting Papilloedema in Children: Diagnostic Potential and Future Clinical Implementation – Claire Carrick, Karzan Hughes, University Hospital of North Midlands
13.45 Prevalence of Childhood Myopia in Leicester Pre- and Post- Covid – Lyn Lee, Aaliyah Seedat, Nagini Sarvananthan, Mintu Nath, Maddie Dutton-Jones and Samira Anwar-Bhatti, Leicester Royal Infirmary, Leicester, UK
13.50 Exploring lipid metabolism as a modifiable factor in retinopathy of prematurity: evidence from a neonatal cohort -Eirini Christodoulaki, Rahul Choudhary, Rohan Verma, Anay Kulkarni, Touqueer Fatima, Sandeep Shetty, Kiray Gulunay, Elisabeth De Smit – St Georges Hospital, London UK
13.55 Gender Dynamics in UK Private Ophthalmology Practice: Representation, Barriers, and Insights – Sachleen Soor, Anna Maino, UK
14.00 Moderator’s round up
14.20 Lunch finishes
14.25 Session IV (P)
Craniofacial
Moderated by: Mr Ankur Raj, Alder Hey Children’s Hospital
14.27 Inside out planning for craniofacial surgery – Miss Anusha Hennedige, Consultant Maxillofacial Surgeon and Mr Vejay Vakharia, Consultant Neurosurgeon, Alder Hey Children’s Hospital
14.47 Oculoplastic considerations in craniofacial disorders – Mr Austin McCormick, Consultant Oculoplastic Surgeon, University Hospital Aintree
14.59 Challenges in ophthalmological management of craniosynostosis – Miss Vasiliki Panteli, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London
15.11 Questions
15.20 Session V (P) (S)
Rapid fire presentations
Moderated by Professor Chris Lloyd, Great Ormond Street Hospital and Mrs Mey Mohan, East Lancashire Hospitals
15.22 Corneal and refractive properties and correlation to clinical measures in patients with congenital nystagmus syndrome – Orwa Nasser, Wahbi Wahbi, Orasis Eyecare Center, St, Karmi’el, Israel
15.27 Evaluating the diagnostic contribution of clinical measures for Albinism in infantile nystagmus – Gail Maconachie, Callum Hunt, Abdullah Aamir, Helen Kuht, Jinu Han, Line Kessel, Richard Hertle, Sasha Strul, Jing Jin, Vasily Smirnov, Karen Gronskov, Mies M. van Genderen, Fred Chen, Irene Gottlob, Mervyn Thomas, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK and University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
15.32 Long term incidence and progression rate of glaucoma in patient with Nance-Horan Syndrome in a tertiary centre hospital – Antonio Valentino Giugliano, Panagiota Pouliou, Eleni Nikita, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK
15.37 Occurrence of Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis-Associated Uveitis over 15 years in a contemporary UK screening cohort – Johnny Kwok Kit Ma, Karolina Szarzanowicz, Suin Lee, Jessy Choi, Sheffield Children Hospital, Sheffield, UK
15.42 Universal relapse following treatment reduction in JIA-Associated Uveitis: real-world outcomes – Catriona Barbour-Hastie, Mary Brennan, Conrad Schmoll, Princess Alexandra Eye Pavilion, Edinburgh, UK
15.47 Prevalence of ocular and visual abnormalities following symptomatic and asymptomatic congenital CMV infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis – Naomi Tan, Tamar Schreiber, Alice Bellchambers, Sohaib Rufai, Nutifafa Adorkor, Umar Ahmed, Harry Petrushkin, Ameenat Solebo, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK & Moorfields Eye Hospital, London UK
15.52 The safety and efficacy of anti-vascular endothelial growth factor biosimilars in Retinopathy of Prematurity – Abdullah Shakeel – DID NOT ATTEND
15.57 Moderators’ round up
16.00 Refreshments at the trade exhibition and posters
16.40 Session VI (P)
Anterior Segment
Moderated by Professor Sus Biswas, Manchester Royal Eye Hospital
16.42 Corneal emergencies – Miss Ailsa Ritchie, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHSFT, London
16.54 Steven Johnson Syndrome and Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis – Professor Sus Biswas. Manchester Royal Eye Hospital
17.06 Anterior Segment Dysgenesis – Professor Ken Nischal, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, USA
17.18 Congenital lamellar ichthyosis – Miss Anne Cook, Manchester Royal Eye Hospital
17.30 Questions