Moorfields International refractive symposium

Moorfields International refractive symposium and laser vision correction wet-lab

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2025 symposium details are below, for your reference.

The Moorfields International refractive symposium covers contemporary vision correction surgery to surgeons in the UK and around the world.

In addition to the symposium, we are offering an optional laser vision correction wet-lab for participants to get hands-on experience with pig eyes using both femtosecond and excimer lasers.

Symposium Overview

The symposium has been developed with the purpose of teaching how to approach vision correction patients, learning the options available including laser and non-laser refractive surgery. Attending this symposium will give you the confidence in offering your patients the best possible modern vision correction. It will also cover key themes for surgeons in training to understand refractive surgery in preparation for the CertLRS RCOphth (UK) and FEBOS-CR ESCRS exams.

Lectures from world leading experts and interactive discussion will enable in-depth learning for all attendees. All lectures will be based on the most up-to-date medical evidence and safe practice, unbiased from marketing and commercial interests. The symposium aims to cover the different approaches to patients’ management of refractive errors detailing the different laser modalities (Femto-LASIK, surface ablations, KeratoLenticule Extraction), as well as refractive lens exchange with discussion of the most advanced IOL implants, including presbyopic correction.

The symposium will cover several hot topics such as ocular surface evaluation and management before and after vision correction surgery, modern corneal tomography and anterior segment evaluation with the CSO MS39 for laser vision correction surgery, ICL and refractive options for irregular corneas such as keratoconus.

The Moorfields International refractive symposium aims to cover the different approaches to the management of refractive patients along with how they might be implemented in best practice.

Symposium faculty

The symposium is led by the Moorfields Corneo-Refractive Department including Professor Bruce Allan, Mr Vincenzo Maurino, Mr Daniel Gore and colleagues. Invited UK and internationally renowned refractive specialists include Professor Dan Reinstein (London, UK), two speakers from Spain: Luis Fernandez-Vega (Oviedo -SPAIN) and Jorge ALIO (Alicante, SPAIN).

Wet-lab overview

Participants will be mentored by Moorfields refractive consultants, including Vincenzo Maurino and Dan Gore, using the Zeiss Visumax 800 and Schwind Amaris 1050RS lasers. The following techniques will be covered:

LASIK flap creation
LASIK flap lift and re-float
SMILE lenticular cut, dissection and extraction
LASEK & TransPRK
Therapeutic ablations (PTK/TransPTK)

Additional topics will covered as part of an informal discussions and Q&A opportunities throughout each session, including:

How to size LASIK flaps
What optical zone is appropriate
What to do if you lose suction during LASIK or SMILE cuts
How to dissect lenticules easily, avoiding false planes
How to manage torn a lenticule
Ablating scars
When to abort

And much more…

Morning or afternoon sessions are available. Participants will be in groups of 4 students for 2 hours each, rotating between the different lasers and different techniques.

Booking your place

Please refer to the course and wet-lab fees below before booking your place.

This symposium is generously supported by Thea Pharmaceuticals, enabling us to offer a great ticket price to you.

£200.00

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Taught by

Vincenzo Maurino

Vincenzo Maurino is an Italian-British ophthalmologist who is a Senior Consultant Ophthalmologist and Director of the Cataract Services at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London. He is also Visiting Professor for Corneal and Refractive surgery at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. His special areas of specialist interests are cataract surgery and corneal surgery as well as refractive surgery. He graduated with magna cum laude in Italy and after a four-year ophthalmology residency, he won a scholarship to move to London to further his surgical ophthalmic training at the world-renowned Moorfields Eye Hospital. At Moorfields Eye Hospital he completed fellowships in paediatric ophthalmology, glaucoma, cataract, refractive surgery, and corneal transplant surgery. Vincenzo Maurino research interests are in the fields of cataract and corneal refractive surgery, and he has published in several peer reviewed international journals. He has been invited to lectures nationally and internationally. He served on the scientific committee of the Italian Society of Ophthalmology (SOI) for longer than a decade and on the board of the SICCSO (The International Society of Corneal, Stem Cells and Ocular Surface). He was awarded the SOI Medal Lecture in 2016 and invited to give the Cataract Update Lecture at the RANZO Congress in 2023 to mention few. He received the title of Officer of the Order of “The Star of Italy” by Mr Sergio Mattarella, the President of Italy, in 2015. He is passionate about surgical training and has trained hundreds of eye surgeons from all over the world in cataract and corneal surgery and he regularly holds training surgical courses nationally and abroad. Outside work, he enjoys sport and especially running, tennis and skying. Professional activities include NHS practice specialising in cataract, refractive and corneal surgery. Private practice specialising in refractive surgery (laser vision correction, ICL implantation, lens surgery), cataract surgery and corneal graft surgery.

Dan 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.

Bruce Allan

Professor Bruce Allan qualified in medicine from Cambridge in 1985, and was appointed as a Consultant Surgeon at Moorfields in 1998 after advanced specialist training in the UK, South Africa, and Australia. He was Training Director for the Corneal Service at Moorfields for over 10 years, and Service Director for Refractive Surgery from 2012 to 2019. He is currently chairing the Royal College of Ophthalmologists Refractive Surgery Standards Working Group and the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons (ESCRS) Digital Health Special Interest Group. He is an ESCRS Council and EU Cornea board member. He and his wife, Consultant Psychiatrist Dr Maria Teresa Casasus Borrell, live in North London with regular visits from their 3 daughters, Saskia, Sofia and Silvia. Outside work, He is a keen football fan and sailor. Professional activities include: • NHS practice specialising in cataract and corneal surgery • Private practice specialising in refractive surgery (laser vision correction, ICL implantation, RLE, restoring near vision) • Regular presentations at international research meetings, press, radio and television comment on developments in corneal transplantation, cataract and refractive surgery • Peer review for international medical journals and research grant funding bodies • Specialist advice for NICE and MHRA Current research interests include: • Applications of Deep Learning to anterior segment eye disease • Enhancing treatment accuracy in laser vision correction • Laser assisted corneal transplantation • Early intervention and visual rehabilitation in keratoconus.

Dan Reinstein

Professor Dan Z. Reinstein is the Founder and Medical Director of the London Vision Clinic, part of the EuroEyes Group. Dr. Reinstein is a board-certified ophthalmologist in the United States and Canada and holds professorships in the UK, New York and Paris. Since the 1990’s he has dedicated himself solely to the specialty of Refractive Surgery. Over the course of his career, Dr. Reinstein developed and contributed the first measurements of the epithelium with mapping, developed and published extensively in the new diagnostic field of corneal layered 3D pachymetric imaging and biometry with VHF digital ultrasound, later adding OCT methodology. He has delivered over 1,000 lectures at professional meetings on 5 continents and published over 210 scientific papers in peer-reviewed medical journals. He is a leader in the field of Therapeutic Refractive Surgery, and founded this section for the Journal of Refractive Surgery where he continues as Section Editor. He has authored a definitive textbook on SMILE, contributed to 44 book chapters and published proceedings, and is extensively published in the ophthalmic press. His work and patents related to VHF digital ultrasound administered by the Center for Technology Licensing at Cornell University (Ithaca, NY) led to the commercialisation of VHF digital ultrasound robotic scanning with the Insight 100 from ArcScan Inc., which together with his sizing formula is now the most accurate method of sizing the ICL. He developed PRESBYOND Laser Blended Vision, now part of the Carl Zeiss Meditec platform. He has been the Lead Refractive Surgery consultant for Carl Zeiss Meditec since 2001, has a proprietary interest in the Insight 100 technology, and consults for CSO Italia (MS39 OCT). He was awarded the Waring Medal in 2006, the Kritzinger Award in 2013, the ISRS President’s Award and the Senior Achievement Award from the American Academy of Ophthalmology in 2020, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from UKISCRS in 2023. He has continued to play the saxophone and has held a monthly residency gig at 606 Club in Chelsea for over 20 years.

Su-Yin Koay

Su-yin is a Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon at Moorfields Eye Hospital. She specialises in cornea and external disease, refractive surgery and emergency ophthalmology. She also serves as the lead for corneal infections at Moorfields Eye Hospital, and is an Honorary Clinical Lecturer at the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology.

Tim Archer

Dr Timothy Archer is the research manager of London Vision Clinic, working together with Prof Dan Reinstein since 2003. Dr Archer obtained his undergraduate degree in Mathematics from the University of Oxford, and Masters in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge. He was awarded a PhD in Biomedical Science from Ulster University on the extension of the limits of corneal laser refractive surgery. As a mathematician and computer programmer by training, he has led the design and customisation of many proprietary IT business control systems as well as research and analysis tools for the organisation. He manages the clinical quality control analytics which contribute to the outstanding outcome levels that are achieved by the London Vision Clinic. The research team at London Vision Clinic have produced 216 publications in the peer-reviewed literature to date, published a textbook on small incision lenticule extraction (SMILE), and run high level training courses in refractive surgery.

Sajjad Ahmad

Sajjad Ahmad is a Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon and the Lead for Experimental Medicine at Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, UK. His expertise is in corneal and external eye diseases, particularly inflammatory ocular surface disorders and ocular surface reconstruction. He holds an honorary Associate Clinical Professor position at the Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London, where he runs a laboratory group focusing on corneal stem cell biology and the development of cellular therapies for the eye. Dr Ahmad’s research also investigates translational medicine, analysing drugs, cell therapies and surgical devices for the eye through the regulatory pathway to first-in-human or first-in-eye clinical trials. He is currently running two Phase 1 clinical trials, including a Medical Research Council-funded trial. He is an Ophthalmic Advisor to the European Medicines Agency and the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). He also works with the National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE) to evaluate ophthalmic therapies for National Health Service (NHS) application.

Marcello Leucci

Marcello is the lead optometrist of the Keratoconus service at Moorfields Eye Hospital. He is responsible for development of protocols on keratoconus monitoring and progression criteria and is actively involved in research and development of patient pathways, new tomography devices, and the effectiveness of new and existing treatments for the condition. He is also Clinical Director for Digital Safety at Moorfields, working with the Department of Digital Medicine on projects bringing health technology systems and devices to the patient pathway.

Alfonso Vasquez-Perez

Alfonso Vasquez-Perez is a consultant at Moorfields Eye Hospital and is the lead for the Osteo-Odonto-keratoprosthesis (OOKP) Service; a highly specialised treatment for corneal blindness provided only in few centres around the world. His areas of expertise includes corneal surgery, keratoprosthesis (KPro), cataracts and refractive surgery. He took his initial training in Barcelona and later he completed two advanced sub-specialist training fellowships in Cornea and Refractive Surgery in the UK, first in Brighton and then at Moorfields Eye Hospital. He was awarded the Certificate in Laser Refractive Surgery (CertLRS) and he is one of the few UK surgeons who also obtained the Certification in Cataract and Refractive Surgery from The European Board of Ophthalmology (FEBOS-CR). As a consultant surgeon at Moorfields has trained many surgical fellows from the UK and all over the world and frequently present his research work in national and international conferences. His publications include 3 book chapter and over 40 articles in ophthalmic journals.

Radhika Rampat

Radhika Rampat is a Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon with 14 years of experience in ophthalmology, holding a substantive NHS post at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, an Honorary Consultant Ophthalmologist position at Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Trust as well as private practice including being Medical Director at betterview UK, a refractive surgery clinic in London. Radhika additionally founded and chairs the AECOS Green Working Group (GWG), an international Sustainability group for Eye care. She was named one of the Top 10 Rising Stars in Ophthalmology, by The Ophthalmologist magazine (2023-2024).

Luis Fernndez-Vega

Luis Fernández-Vega graduate in Medicine and Surgery from the Complutense University of Madrid. PhD in Health Sciences and Biomedicine from the University of Oviedo. Gaining - Extraordinary Doctorate Award for his thesis on keratoconus and intracorneal rings. Degree in Refractive Surgery and Cataracts from ESCRS-EBO by the European Board of Ophthalmology. Associate professor at the University of Oviedo in the Department of Surgery and Medical-Surgical Specialties. Specialist physician at the Fernández-Vega Ophthalmology Institute. Luis is the author of more than 85 publications in scientific journals in the specialty, book chapters, as well as numerous presentations at national and international conferences. He has been the lead author in the book “Requested Communication” of the Spanish Society of Ophthalmology 2023 on Intracorneal ring segments for keratoconus treatment. He has been awarded the prestigious international Peter Barry Fellowship of the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (ESCRS), in 2017 and has received important research grants, among which the Ramón Areces Foundation Scholarship stands out in 2017. He has completed internships at internationally renowned ophthalmological centres: Manhattan Eye and Ear Infirmary (New York), Massachusets Eye and Ear Infirmary (Boston), Barraquer Ophthalmology Centre (Barcelona) and the Caribbean Ophthalmology Clinic (Barranquilla). He also completed three Fellowships in ocular surface, cornea, lens and refractive surgery at the University of Oviedo; in Cornea, Cataract and Refractive Surgery at Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (London); and in Cornea, Cataract and Refractive Surgery at Bascon Palmer Eye Institute (Miami). He was president and co-founder of the Association of Young Spanish Ophthalmologists (AJOE), between 2013 and 2015. He has been awarded in 2024 by the Spanish Ophtalmological Society with the “Arruga prize” to the best under 40 spanish ophthalmologist.

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