Ocular oncology for the non-ocular oncologist: what you need to know for clinical practice

This brand new course is aimed at ophthalmologists, trainees, optometrists and medical retina specialists and will cover the following topics:

  • How to assess and diagnose ocular tumours
  • How to refer patients to an ocular oncology centre
  • Use of the MOLES score for choroidal naevi
  • Current management of ocular cancers
  • Benign simulating lesions in general ophthalmic/optometric practice
  • Vascular tumours
  • How to monitor patients after treatment
  • How to set up a reginal diagnostic ocular oncology service
  • Retinoblastoma

Course Lead: Dr Gordon Hay, Ocular Oncologist.

Course Directors: Professor Bertil Damato, Consultant Ocular Oncologist & Professor Mandeep Sagoo, Professor of Ophthalmology and Ocular Oncology.

The course will take place on 9 May 2025. Some details are yet to be confirmed. To express interest and be notified once we are ready to open bookings please add your name to the waiting list.

 
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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.

Bertil Damato

Bertil Damato received his undergraduate education in Malta, where he was born, and his postgraduate training in ophthalmology and ocular oncology at the Tennent Institute of Ophthalmology in Glasgow. He is currently Consultant Ocular Oncologist at Moorfields Eye Hospital and Oxford Eye Hospital. In 1993, he established the Liverpool Ocular Oncology Centre, which he directed for 20 years. From 2013 to 2018, he was Professor of Ophthalmology and Radiation Oncology and Director of the Ocular Oncology Service at the University of California, San Francisco and from 2022 to 2024 he was Consultant Ocular Oncologist at St. Eriks Eye Hospital/Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm. Professor Damato has served as President of the European Ocular Oncology Group, the European Vision and Research Association and the International Society of Ocular Oncology. His main research interests relate to ocular oncology, particularly ocular melanoma. He has published more than 340 scientific articles and authored or co-edited several textbooks. Professor Damato has received a number of awards, which include the Bjerrum Medal in Denmark, the Cohen Medal in South Africa, the Watson and Ashton Medals in the UK, the Shields Medal in Hong Kong and the Stallard Medal of the International Society of Ocular Oncology. He is married to Frankanne and has two children, both doctors.

 

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