Hot topics in comprehensive ophthalmology

Hot topics in comprehensive ophthalmology is a course for people who work in the field suitable for comprehensive/general ophthalmologists, urgent care and primary care, optometrists and nurse practitioners.

This is an update on common themes which appear in the comprehensive ophthalmology clinics and community optometric practices. The updates will be provided by leading lights of Moorfields clinical faculty. This will be a high yield course with short 20 to 30 minute lectures which you can attend either in-person or online.

Tutors

The course will be delivered by Moorfields Consultants and Fellows/Senior trainees.

Course Director: Dr Gordon Hay, A&E Clinical director

Who is this course for?

This course is intended for ophthalmologists working within comprehensive ophthalmology, community optometrists and nurse practitioners.

CPD Certification

The content of this course has been certified by The CPD Certification Service as conforming to continuing professional development principles. The course carries 7 CPD hours.

GOC CPD points will also be available for optometrists.

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Date	Location	Time	Seats	Price
Friday 6 March 2026	Education Hub, 15 Ebenezer Street, London N1 7NP		40	£295.00
Friday 6 march 2026	Online via MS Teams			£195.00

Course fees

Taught by

Gordon Hay

Gordon Hay has worked in Ocular Oncology for 20 years. He first worked with Mr John Hungerford & Dr Judith Kingston in the Ocular Oncology and Retinoblastoma Services at Bart's Hospital having undertaken his basic training in Ophthalmology/Ocular Oncology at Barts & The London. Dr Hay then had a career break in Australia - where he spent several years as a single-handed flying doctor and rural Medical Superintendent and Government Medical Officer in Queensland. He returned to the UK in 2004 to take up a post in Adult Ocular Oncology at Barts Hospital. In January 2015 he moved to the world-renowned Moorfields Eye Hospital where he specialises in A&E (Emergency Ophthalmology) and Ocular Oncology - working in Mandeep Sagoo’s Professorial Ocular Oncology Unit. For many years Dr Hay ran the Ophthalmology component of the Cambridge Graduate Course in Medicine. He also has 16 years' experience of teaching/lecturing to Ophthalmology trainees, Optometrists and GPs on all aspects of clinical care and examination skills. Gordon has been the clinical director of the Emergency Department since November 2019. He lectures widely to Ophthalmic trainees and optometrists on Ocular Oncology and A&E in the United Kingdom. He also has a keen interest in primary care ophthalmology and Community Optometry Service Delivery and is a keen proponent in up-skilling in the community setting. Gordon is the Service Director for A&E/Urgent Care Services at Moorfields Eye Hospital and in February 2020, was appointed Deputy Director of Education at UCL Institute of Ophthalmology. He also lectures on the UCL M.Sc. in Ophthalmology Course in Emergency Ophthalmology and Ocular Oncology and runs the UCL Summer School in Ophthalmology. Dr Hay has won numerous awards over the past few years in his A&E role and has successfully transitioned his department into the digital sphere. Moorfields A&E Has garnered 5 major national awards for Emergency Eye care - including Health Service Journal Top A&E department in the UK, Second top for trainee education in the UK, and UCL as top higher institution in the world to study ophthalmology. He is a keen proponent in upskilling ancillary staff and has incorporated advanced nursing and optometrists practitioners into the A&E setting. His department has also won three digital awards for the Attend Anywhere virtual A&E service. In September 2022 he became Associate Professor at the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology.

Paul Sullivan

Paul Sullivan is a vitreoretinal surgeon and Director of Postgraduate Medical Education at Moorfields Eye Hospital. He worked as a research fellow in the Diabetic Eye Unit at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School. His clinical ophthalmology training was in London and in Southampton under Professor Andrew Elkington, who stimulated his interest in medical education. He has been a consultant at Moorfields since 1997 and was the clinical lead for vitreoretinal surgery from 1999 until 2006, when he took over from John Lee as Director of Education. His major research interest is in complications of cataract and vitreoretinal surgery and he has published many papers in this area. His educational interests are microsurgical skills training, faculty development and elearning. He has set up a not-for-profit publishing company, Eyelearning, which distributes free interactive e-textbooks on ophthalmic microsurgical techniques (see also www.eyelearning.co.uk). eBooks on trauma and vitreoretinal and phacoemulsification surgery are available now. He is a Board member of the Moorfields-Korle Bu partnership and has worked with the West African College of Surgeons on curriculum and faculty development. As well as various ophthalmology educational roles he was elected to the Council of NACT in 2010. He received an achievement award from the American Academy of Ophthalmology in 2013.

Daniel Gore

Daniel Gore graduated from St. Mary’s Medical School, Imperial College London before undertaking resident ophthalmic training in London and a one-year fellowship at the university of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa with funding awarded by the Royal Society of Medicine. He completed 3 years specialist fellowship training at Moorfields Eye Hospital in advanced corneal and laser vision correction surgery, during which time he was awarded the prestigious Quality Care Award by Health Education England. Mr Gore spent two years as a research fellow at both the Institute of Ophthalmology and Imperial College London, during which time he investigated new laser eye surgery and cross-linking interventions for keratoconus as part of his doctorate (MD) from University College London. Building on this pioneering work, Mr Gore has lectured widely across the UK and overseas on developments in corneal cross-linking and safe laser treatments for keratoconus and other corneal ectasias, and is an opinion leader amongst colleagues. In 2019, Daniel Gore was appointed Director of Refractive Surgery at Moorfields Eye Hospital.

Mark Westcott

Mark is a Consultant Ophthalmologist at Moorfields Eye Hospital, where he specialises in uveitis, and at St Bartholomew’s and The Royal London Hospitals in London. After residency training in London he spent a Fellowship year in glaucoma at the UCLA Stein Eye Institute, Los Angeles. Thereafter he returned to Moorfields Eye Hospital to undertake a Specialist Fellowship in medical retina and inflammatory eye disease. Mark has co-authored over 75 scientific papers, and regularly lectures both nationally and internationally. He is an honorary Reader at QMUL, and honorary visiting Professor at UPMC, Pittsburgh, US. His research interests include infectious uveitis, birdshot disease and visual dysfunction in glaucoma. Mark lives in London with his family, and in his spare time he indulges a passion for amateur astronomy.

Margaret Dayan

Margaret (Mags) Dayan is a Consultant Ophthalmologist and Neuro-ophthalmology Clinical Service Lead at the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle. She is the UK Neuro-ophthalmology (UKNOS) committee member for Service and former Secretary of the British Isles Neuro-ophthalmology Club (BINOC). She graduated from Oxford and trained in Leeds and around the Northern Region before undertaking a fellowship in neuro-ophthalmology and ocular motility in Oxford. Her subspecialist interests are neuro-ophthalmology, adult ocular motility and botulinum toxin treatment. She works closely with the regional neurorehabilitation service and sees patients with visual impairment (including higher cognitive visual dysfunction) secondary to brain injuries. She has a large and complex clinical practice and understands first hand the competing demands of limited resources and increasing referrals. She is interested in identifying new ways of meeting service demands, the use of virtual and paramedical clinics and the changing makeup of the teams delivering neuro-ophthalmology services. Mags previously instigated and ran the Newcastle Course on Orbital and Neuro-Imaging for Ophthalmology, taught on the Newcastle Cadaveric Strabismus course, has convened Seminars and Annual Congress sessions for the Royal College of Ophthalmologists and is a regular speaker on neuro-ophthalmology at national meetings. She was the Neuro-ophthalmology Section Editor of the Health Education England eLearning for Health Website.

Sonnita Oomeer

Dr Soonita Oomeer (MRCP, DipGUM, DFSRH, DipHIV) completed GUM & HIV specialist registrar training at St Mary’s Hospital, Central Middlesex Hospital and Northwick Park Hospital in London. She has been a genitourinary medicine (GUM) & HIV consultant since 2016 working at St Ann’s Sexual Health Clinic, Haringey and Marlborough GUM clinic at the Royal Free Hospital in London. She currently works at Archway Sexual Health Centre, part of Central North West London NHS Trust (CNWL) as a GUM consultant. She is the syphilis lead for CNWL Sexual Health services in North Central London. She is a member of the NHS Infectious Diseases in Pregnancy (IDPS) congenital syphilis clinical expert review panel. She is a member of the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV (BASHH) Bacterial Special Interest Group.

Niall Patton

Niall Patton is a Consultant Ophthamologist, Cataract and Vitreoretinal Surgeon at the Manchester Royal Eye Hospital. He is also Director of the Manchester Vitreoretinal Fellowship Program for International Ophthalmologists from around the world who visit Manchester Royal Eye Hospital to gain high level surgical and clinical expertise in the management of retinal disease. He graduated in Medicine from the University of Manchester in 1996. He completed his ophthalmic surgical training at the Manchester Royal Eye Hospital and the Princess Alexandra Eye Pavilion, Edinburgh. In addition, he has undertaken four years of specialist Vitreoretinal surgical fellowship training at the Lions Eye Institute, Western Australia, Princess Alexandra Eye Pavilion, Edinburgh, Tennant Eye Institute, Glasgow and Moorfield’s Eye Hospital, London. He was appointed as a Consultant at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital in 2008. He continually audits his own practice to maintain the highest standards of medical and surgical care. In addition to his clinical expertise, he has completed ophthalmic research in a variety of different ophthalmic fields and has been successful in procuring research grants from the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh. His research culminated in the award of a Doctorate from the University of Manchester in 2006. He has spoken at national and international ophthalmology meetings, including the United States, Australia, and Europe. In addition to 53 peer-reviewed publications in ophthalmic journals, he has also co-authored a chapter of a textbook and has served as a reviewer for major international ophthalmology journals, including Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, Ophthalmology, Archives of Ophthalmology & Journal of Applied Physiology. He has also served as a grant reviewer for the Welcome Trust.

Daniel Sibley

Daniel Sibley is a consultant ophthalmologist with a specialist interest in cornea, external eye diseases and cataract at Moorfields Eye Hospital, London. Daniel has the following credentials Batchelor of Medicine and Surgery (BMBS), Brighton and Sussex Medical School BSc (Hons) Neuroscience, University of Sussex Fellow of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists (FRCOphth) Certificate in Laser and Refractive Surgery (CertLRS), Royal College of Ophthalmologists Post Graduate diploma in cataract and refractive surgery (PGDipCatRef), Ulster University General Medical Council United Kingdom & Ireland Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgeons (UKISCRS).

Bahar Demir

Ms Bahar Demir, FRCOphth, FEBO is a Specialist Doctor at Moorfields Eye Hospital. She studied medicine and completed her ophthalmology training in Istanbul, Turkey, before undertaking Medical Retina and Uveitis Fellowship at Moorfields. She works across medical retina, uveitis, and general ophthalmology clinics. Her interests include retinal vascular disease, the development and leadership of digital clinics, and sustainability in eye care.

Hari Jayaram

Dr Hari Jayaram is a Clinician-Scientist at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London where he is the Director of the Glaucoma Service and Co-Chairs the Research Management and New Technologies Committee. He completed his medical training at the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford with specialist ophthalmology training at St Thomas’ Hospital and Moorfields. He was awarded a Medical Research Council Clinical Research Training Fellowship towards his PhD in Retinal Stem Cell Biology at the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology before becoming a Clinical Lecturer at the NIHR Moorfields Biomedical Research Centre. He was also awarded a Fulbright Scholarship and spent two years at the Casey Eye Institute in Portland, Oregon, USA undertaking research into novel experimental glaucoma models. He also holds a Masters Degree with Distinction in Clinical Trials from the University of London and has been awarded a Diploma in Research Ethics. He is actively involved with the development and conduct of glaucoma clinical trials at Moorfields and co-leads a translational research program at the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology studying the role of Müller Cells and their derivatives in experimental glaucoma models and also in first in man clinical trials aimed at developing future advanced cellular therapies for glaucoma.

Sue Kenneally

Dr Sue Kenneally is an obesity medicine physician working in both the NHS and private sector. She is a lead physician for two neighbouring NHS specialist weight management services and also leads the weight loss team nationally for Boots Online Doctor. She was one of the original graduates of the prestigious World Obesity Federation Leadership Programme in 2022, which included some time in the Cleveland Clinic in the USA and various teaching events around the world delivered by global experts in the field. She teaches on obesity management through the University of South Wales and in the local medical school, and is an experienced conference speaker and published author on the subject of obesity medicine.

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