The Irish College of Ophthalmologists Annual Conference 2024 will take place from Wednesday 15th to Friday 17th May at the Knockranny House Hotel, Westport, Co Mayo.
Call for Abstracts: Now closed (Monday, 11th March 2024)
Early Bird Registration: €350 for ICO members (ends 31st March)
€425 Registration
Programme:
Conference Programme Overview: https://www.eyedoctors.ie/westport2024/
Guest speakers at the clinical symposia for this year's conference include:
Vision and Strabismus
- Mr Ian Marsh, Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon, NHS Trust
- Dr Arvind Chandna, Senior Clinician Scientist at Smith Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, San Francisco
- Ms Kathryn McCreery, Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon, Children's Health Ireland Crumlin
Orbit and Socket
- Mr Manoj Parulekar, Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon, Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust and Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust
- Professor Geoffrey Rose, Consultant Orbital, Lacrimal and Plastic Reconstructive Surgeon and Past Director of the Adnexal Service at Moorfields Eye Hospital, London
- Mr Tim Fulcher, Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon, Mater Hospital, Dublin
Sustainability in Ophthalmology
- Dr Philip Crowley, HSE National Lead for Climate Change
- Miss Radhika Rampat, Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon, Royal Free London NHS Trust.
- Dr Emilie Mahon, Ophthalmology Tutor, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
- Mr Arthur Cummings, Consultant Ophthalmologist, Wellington Eye Clinic, Dublin
Annual Mooney Lecture 2024
"TED (Thyroid Eye Disease) Customised Management"
Professor Geoffrey Rose, Moorfields Eye Hospital, London
Workshops, paper and poster presentations and the European Society of Ophthalmology (SOE) Lecture 2024 also feature on the three day conference programme.
The ICO medals for Best Paper and Best Poster will be awarded at the conference.
We are delighted that Prof Brendan Kelly, Professor of Psychiatry at Trinity College Dublin and Consultant Psychiatrist at Tallaght University Hospital, will join us in Westport this year.
Professor Kelly will share insights from his new book 'Resilience: Lessons from Sir William Wilde on Life After Covid' which reflects on the pandemic in Ireland and what we might learn as a society and as individuals from the experience.
He will present the medal to the author of the best poster.
A parallel industry partner exhibition will run alongside the scientific conference.