Please note the program is subject to change without notice. This is the provisional final program.

Provisional Program

Friday 13 June

  • 17:00 - 18:00
    Informal Meet and Greet Pegasus Restaurant – Radisson

Saturday 14 June

  • 07:15 - 08:00
    Registration and arrival tea/coffee

  • 08:00 - 08:15
    Welcome

  • 08:15 - 09:00
    Things I know now
    Prof Bennett McAllister

  • 09:00 - 09:15
    Medical volunteering info session
    Dr Inez Allin

  • 09:15 - 09:45
    Too much 02 - ROP and its Management
    Dr Cullen

  • 09:45 - 10:15
    One starfish at a time - Co-management of challenging Paeds and BV cases
    Dr Claire Cullen and Leoni Joubert

  • 10:15 - 10:30
    Product burst

  • 10:30 - 11:00
    Tea Break and visit exhibitions

  • 11:00 - 11:45
    Everything hurts! Managing the visual aspects of the ageing visual system with common age-related conditions
    Prof Nicholas Rumney

  • 11:45 - 12:30
    What’s that blob? Advanced OCT
    Dr Dirk Booysen

  • 12:30 - 13:30
    Lunch & visit exhibitions

  • 13:30 - 14:15
    What could possibly go wrong? AI in healthcare
    Dr Nina Kriel

  • 14:15 - 15:00
    Boomer BV: The incidence and management of binocular vision anomalies in the elderly
    Prof Nicholas Rumney

  • 15:00 - 15:30
    Tea break & visit exhibitions

  • 15:30 - 16:15
    Rapid Fire Grand rounds 1 - fun, fast learning!
    Various speakers (Marilize Le Roux, Werny Taljaard, Anthony Carlson)

  • OR

  • 15:15 - 19:00 Group 1 Game Drive
    The Eyes have it - amazing lectured game drive
    Prof Wayne Gillan, Leoni Joubert
    What's in a term
    Dr Dirk Booysen

  • 19:00 - late
    Boma Braai under the stars! Radisson Hotel

Sunday 15 June

  • 05:30 - 09:00 Group 2 Game Drive
    The Eyes have it - amazing lectured game drive
    Prof Wayne Gillan, Leoni Joubert

  • OR

  • 07:30 - 08:15
    Arrival tea or coffee

  • 08:15 - 09:00
    Rapid Fire Grand rounds 2 - fun, fast learning!
    Various speakers (Dr. Richter, Prof Mathebula, Alicia Erasmus)

  • 09:00 - 09:45
    Rapid Fire Research - fun, fast learning! Our Academics weigh in!
    Dr Chetty, Prof Metsing, A Suliman

  • 09:45 - 10:00
    Product burst

  • 10:00 - 10:30
    Tea break and visit exhibitions

  • 10:30 - 11:15
    The Magic Molecule: Ozempic- The rise and fall (of waistlines) and implications for diabetics
    Leoni Joubert

  • 11:15 - 12:00
    VKC (Very Katastrophic Condition) -Doing it right so we can save children’s sight
    M Khan

  • 12:00 - 12:45
    To cut or not to cut, that is the question? When is surgery an option for strabismus
    Marolize Botha

  • 12:45 - 13:30
    Lunch & visit exhibitions

  • 13:30 - 14:15
    Whence VA
    Prof McAllister

  • 14:15 - 15:00
    The “Eye opening” benefits of neutraceuticals
    Seth Dunlee

  • 15:00 - 15:30
    Tea break

  • 15:30 - 16:15
    Social media in healthcare - how NOT to do it! Ethics made fun (yes we can!)
    Dr Nina Kriel and Leoni Joubert

  • 16:15 - 16:30
    Closing and lucky prize draw (win a TABLET!)

  • 18:00 - 20:00
    Celestial Safari – Astronomy under African skies. Radisson Hotel.
    Ben Coley

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