Inspiring Women in Ophthalmology and Young Clinician Scientist Lectures

Programme

3.00: Welcome (Tim Levine)

3.05: introduction to Pearse Keane (Gary Rubin)

3.10: Young Clinican Scientist Lecture, Pearse Keane: 'Optical coherence tomography - reinventing the eye exam'

3.40: Introduction to Jungnoo Rahi (Andrew Dick)

3.50: Keynote Inspiring Women in Ophthalmology Lecture, Jugnoo Rahi: 'Understanding childhood visual impairment'

4.45: Questions and closing remarks (Maryse Bailly)

5.00: Drinks receptionin Marcelle Jay Room

Registration

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Biographies of speakers

Young Clinician Scientist Lecture

Pearse Keane

• NIHR Clinician Scientist and Consultant Ophthalmologist
• NIHR BRC at Moorfields Eye Hospital and UCL Institute of Ophthalmology

Pearse specialises in applied ophthalmic research, with a particular interest in retinal imaging and new technologies. In April 2015, he was ranked 4th in a worldwide ranking of ophthalmologists under 40, and 5th in the 2017 ophthalmology power list published in "the Ophthalmologist” journal. In 2016, he initiated a formal collaboration between Moorfields Eye Hospital and Google DeepMind, with the aim of applying machine learning to automated diagnosis of optical coherence tomography (OCT) images.

lnspiring Women in Ophthalmology Lecture

Jugnoo Rahi

• Director, Ulverscroft Vision Research Group
• Head, Section of Lifecourse Epidemiology and Biostatistics
• Great Ormand Street Institute of Child Health UCL
• NIHR BRC at Moorfields Eye Hospital and UCL Institute of Ophthalmology

Jugnoo is a clinician scientist leading a unique multi-disciplinary epidemiological research group. Her interests are in eye disease and visual impairment in childhood, in the early life origins of and life course influences on chronic complex eye disease of adult life, and the factors that shape visual health. Her group aims to enhance understanding of these disorders in order to improve their prevention, diagnosis and treatment, and to inform service and policy decisions nationally and internationally.

Her research programmes encompass classical, clinical, life course, genetic epidemiology, ophthalmic statistics as well as health services research within two broad and integrated themes.  The first comprises investigations of the frequency, natural history, aetiology, treatment or outcomes of the major blinding diseases of childhood, which are individually uncommon and areas of particular interest and expertise at GOS / ICH and Moorfields / IO and their NIHR Biomedical Research Centres in Paediatrics/Child Health and Ophthalmology. The second comprises both lifecourse and genetic epidemiological research on common but potentially less visually disabling disorders of childhood or childhood onset which nevertheless carry significant health, social, and personal costs. 

Since 2007 she has led (as its inaugural Director) the Ulverscroft Vision Research Group (UVRG) at UCL. This is a unique inter-disciplinary and cross theme initiative which is an established hub for academic paediatric ophthalmology and visual sciences.

Jugnoo currently contributes to the NHS more widely through public health and policy roles as Advisor to the PHE UK National Screening Committee, and Member of the Clinical Council Eye Health Commissioning and the UK Vision 2020 Ophthalmic Public Health Groups. Current contributions to clinical and academic ophthalmology include roles such as Member of the RCOphth Paediatric Subcommittee, RCOphth Academic Committee and BOSU Steering Committee.