Northern Regional Meeting

North Regional Meeting

9am 18th May

Members free: non members £100.00

Provisional Agenda

Newcastle Central Library

Timetable

10 – 10.15 Registration and refreshments

10.15-10.25 Welcome from the Northern Region Trustee - Kathryn Smart

10.25 – 10.40 Carla Black RA - Asteroid team - Overview of project results

10.40 – 11.15 Lauren Hepworth - BIOS Stroke lead - Post stroke visual impairment – an update

11.15 – 11.45 Jignasa Mehta, Public Health Lead for BIOS – Orthoptics and public health

11.45 – 12.15 Caroline Fieldsend – MECC - Newcastle Orthoptic department smoking cessation referral pathway

12.15 – 1.15 Lunch – please note this is not provided

1.15 – 1.45 Q&A session

1.45 – 2.30 Gill Rawlinson – HEE, Orthoptics career promotion project for BIOS

2.30 – 2.45 Short comfort break

2.45 – 3.30 Yasmin DeAlrewis – Consultant Paediatrician and Laura Crawford - Orthoptist Newcastle Hospitals ‘Vision assessment in children with a disability’

3.30 – 4.00 Sophie Vickers, Specialist Retina Practitioner – Leeds ‘My year as a Clinicalm Leadership fellow’

4.00 – 4.15 Tina Sharma, Orthoptist Newcastle – Audit of Paediatric Glaucoma Service

4.15-4.30 Close of meeting

Contact

kathryn.smart@orthoptics-bios.com