Program
Final Congress Program – IOC 2025
The Congress program is subject to change without notice.
| ZORAN GEORGIEVSKI EDUCATION FORUM: INNOVATIONS IN ORTHOPTIC EDUCATION: DEVELOPING SKILLS FOR REAL-WORLD IMPACT | |||
| 9:00-10:00 | Hour 1 | ||
| 10:30-11:30 | Hour 2 | ||
| LEADERSHIP FORUM | |||
| 12:00-14:00 | Hour 1 | ||
| RESEARCH FORUM: GETTING STARTED IN CLINICAL RESEARCH | |||
| 14:30-15:00 | Hour 1 | ||
| 16:00-17:00 | Hour 2 | ||
| OPENING CEREMONY | |||
| 8:30-8:40 | Indigenous representative | Welcome to Country | |
| 8:40-8:50 | Jan Roelof Polling | Welcome: IOA President | |
| 8:50-8:55 | Jane Schuller | Welcome: LOC Chair | |
| 8:55-9:00 | Joel Hyndman | Welcome: CSPC Chair | |
| Block 1 | THEME: BURIAN LECTURE | ||
| 9:00-9:10 | Jan Roelof Polling | Introduction of Burian Lecturer | |
| 9:10-10:00 | Fiona Rowe | Burian Lecture: “A Vision for Vision” | |
| 10:00-10:30 | MORNING TEA |
| Block 2 | THEME: IOA SCOPE OF PRACTICE | ||
| 10:30-11:00 | Birgit Wahl | IOA Orthoptic Scope of Practice Launch | |
| 11:00-11:15 | Q & A | ||
| Block 3 | THEME: ADVANCED ORTHOPTIC PRACTICE | ||
| 11:15-11:20 | Moderator: TBD | Opening remarks | |
| 11:20-11:30 | Catherine Mancuso | The Australian Orthoptic Landscape – Scope of Practice in a Melbourne Public Hospital | |
| 11:30-11:40 | Debra Gleeson | The Advanced Practice Orthoptic Pilot (APOP) in an Acute Ophthalmology Clinic at the RVEEH Melbourne | |
| 11:40-11:50 | Vincent Nguyen | Low Vision Orthoptics: More than just a magnifier | |
| 11:50-12:00 | Danielle Morgan | I-SHARE Project: Improving information sharing and patient experience at Sydney Eye Hospital | |
| 12:00-12:10 | Craig Murray | Advancing the Orthoptic Profession: The British and Irish Orthoptic Society Workforce and Education Reform Programme | |
| 12:10-12:20 | Kristina Alexander | Extending Further – An Orthoptist’s experience of implementing an Advanced Clinical Practitioner clinic in Paediatric Ophthalmology | |
| 12:20-12:25 | Moderator: | Closing Remarks | |
| 12:30-1:30 | Lunch |
| Block 4 | THEME: NEURO-ORTHOPTICS | ||
| 13:30-13:35 | Moderator: TBD | Opening Remarks | |
| 13:35-13:45 | Sonia Lau | Providing person-centred orthoptic care for those with co-occurring visual and communication impairments | |
| 13:45-13:55 | Marianne Coleman | Improving eyecare experiences for people living with dementia | |
| 13:55-14:05 | TBC | ||
| 14:05-14:15 | Konstandina Koklanis | Prevalence of post-concussion vision difficulties in children and adolescents: A systematic review. | |
| 14:15-14:25 | Konstandina Koklanis | Practice Patterns of Orthoptists in Post-Concussion Vision Care in Australia | |
| 14:25-14:30 | Moderator: | Closing Remarks | |
| Block 5 | THEME: LOW VISION | ||
| 14:30-14:35 | Moderator: TBD | Opening Remarks | |
| 14:35-14:45 | Gemma Arblaster | Experiences of acute hospital care for older people living with visual impairment | |
| 14:45-14:55 | Meri Vukicevic | Functional vision and vision-related quality of life of patients with peri-foveal geographic atrophy | |
| 14:55-15:05 | Holly Kelly | Digital literacy and low vision. | |
| 15:05-15:15 | Nadine McArthur | Search Listening in the Support of the Low Vision Patient | |
| 15:15-15:25 | Vincent Nguyen | Outcomes of Low Vision Service Delivery via a Novel Telepractice Model for Rural and Remote Populations in Australia | |
| 15:25-15:35 | Wenjing Su | Enhancing Empathy in Vision Care Through VR Simulations of Central Vision Loss | |
| 15:35-15:40 | Moderator: | Closing remarks | |
| 15:40-16:00 | Afternoon Tea |
| Block 6 | THEME: EDUCATION | ||
| 16:00-16:05 | Moderator: TBD | Opening Remarks | |
| 16:05-16:15 | Karzan Hughes | Service-user experience of the Microsoft Hololens for live-streaming patient consultations in the Orthoptic clinic | |
| 16:15-16:25 | Birgit Wahl | Is an international educational buddy scheme through online orthoptic tutorials beneficial for students? | |
| 16:25-16:35 | Michelle Courtney-Harris | An Interprofessional collaborative learning experience through the eyes of health care students | |
| 16:35-16:45 | Natalia Kelly | Enhancing clinical education through vision screening for children with hearing impairment. | |
| 16:45-16:55 | Craig Murray | The BIOS Workforce and Education Development Programme: Pre-registration orthoptists attitudes to preceptorship and transitioning from study to qualified clinician | |
| 16:55-17:00 | Moderator: | Closing Remarks | |
| Block 7 | THEME: VISION SCREENING | ||
| 8:20-8:25 | Moderator: TBD | Opening Remarks | |
| 8:25-8:35 | Miriam Langeslag-Smith | Where are we now – Comparing preschool vision screening outcomes 13 years apart | |
| 8:35-8:45 | Olivia Staffieri | Vision Screening Programs for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children: A Scoping Review | |
| 8:45-8:55 | Karin Waldhauser | Orthoptic Screening in Preverbal Age: Lessons from 18 Years of Experience and a Pandemic | |
| 8:55-9:05 | Kathryn Rose | Visual Acuity Results Measured by HOTV and Tumbling E EDTRS Charts in Chinese Children | |
| 9:05-9:10 | Moderator: | Closing Remarks | |
| Block 8 | THEME: VISUAL FIELDS | ||
| 9:10-9:15 | Moderator: TBD | Opening Remarks | |
| 9:15-9:25 | Nissi Faith Obra | Hand Gesture Perimetry: A Novel Method of Visual Field Testing in an Augmented Virtual Environment | |
| 9:25-9:35 | Joyce Tiang | Outcomes of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-Enabled Melbourne Rapid Fields (MRF) Online Perimeter in Home Monitoring for Glaucoma | |
| 9:35-9:45 | Jacinta Walz | Removing barriers to care with virtual-reality-based perimetry | |
| 9:45-9:55 | Fiona Rowe | Peripheral kinetic visual field assessment as a measure for presence of functional visual field | |
| 9:55-10:00 | Moderator: | Closing Remarks | |
| 10:00-10:30 | Morning Tea |
| Block 9 | THEME: PEDIATRICS | ||
| 10:30-10:35 | Moderator: TBD | Opening Remarks | |
| 10:35-10:45 | Payal Khandelwal | High-quality amblyopia research in paediatric orthoptic community services: enablers and barriers | |
| 10:45-10:55 | Dipesh Patel | Low vs. high intensity occlusion therapy for mild/moderate amblyopia: Feasibility RCT outcomes | |
| 10:55-11:05 | Sue Silveira | Exploring the playground experience when supervising children with vision impairment. | |
| 11:05-11:15 | Natalia Kelly | Visual-auditory stimulation intervention in children with cerebral vision impairment (CVI) | |
| 11:15-11:25 | Navdeep Kaur | Starving their sight: ocular complications from nutritional deficiencies | |
| 11:25-11:30 | Moderator: | Closing Remarks | |
| Block 10 | THEME: OPHTHALMIC TECHNOLOGY | ||
| 11:30-11:35 | Moderator: TBD | Opening Remarks | |
| 11:35-11:45 | Amanda Moore | Invisible Retinoblastoma: Optical Coherence Tomography Aids Diagnosis | |
| 11:45-11:55 | Mitchell Bagley | A Novel Approach to Indocyanine Green and Fluorescein Angiography using the Clarus 700 ICG Prototype | |
| 11:55-12:05 | Tram Nguyen | Using technology to drive practice change: how new technology may impact patient surgery selection | |
| 12:05-12:15 | Sonia Toor | The effectiveness of tele-appointments in the management of young adults undergoing orthoptic exercises | |
| 12:15-12:25 | Monica Lette | SeeWay: The first truly co-designed patient responsive online tool for people with low vision: pilot findings | |
| 12:25-12:30 | Moderator: | Closing Remarks | |
| 12:30-1:30 | Lunch |
| Block 11 | NEURO-ORTHOPTICS: CHALLENGING CASES AND PANEL DISCUSSION | ||
| 13:30-14:30 | Moderator: Gill Roper-Hall | Opening Remarks | |
| Gill Roper-Hall | |||
| Jan Roelof Polling | |||
| Renne Hernadez | |||
| Shivanand Sheth | |||
| Martin Wasik | |||
| Moderator: | Closing Remarks | ||
| Block 12 | THEME: ORTHOPTIC-LED MODELS OF CARE | ||
| 14:30-14:35 | Moderator: TBD | Opening Remarks | |
| 14:35-14:45 | Jessica Crippa | Evaluating the Success of Orthoptic-Led Clinics: A Decade of Integrated Eye Care at The Children’s Eye Centre | |
| 14:45-14:55 | Jennifer Earl | Introduction of an orthoptic-led paediatric chalazion clinic: a service review | |
| 14:55-15:05 | Kylie Robinson | OSOP- Orthoptic Led Surgical Post-op Clinic; The Why, The How, The Result | |
| 15:05-15:15 | Melanie Lai | An economic evaluation of orthoptic-led services in the collaborative care of glaucoma | |
| 15:15-15:25 | Sandra Staffieri | The orthoptist and retinoblastoma: beyond the consulting room door. | |
| 15:25-15:30 | Moderator: | Closing remarks | |
| 15:30-16:00 | Afternoon Tea |
| Block 13 | THEME: APSPOS SYMPOSIUM: PAEDIATRIC IMAGING | ||
| 16:00-17:00 | Moderator: Deepa Taranath | Opening remarks | |
| Stephanie Crofts / Katie Geering | How to obtain good images in children- Tips and tricks | ||
| Deepa Taranath | Fundus photography and Fluorescein Angiography in children | ||
| Caroline Catt | OCT in children | ||
| Rasha Altaie | Corneal topography and anterior segment imaging | ||
| Susie Luu | Biometry and Ultrasound in children | ||
| Block 14 | THEME: BINOCULAR VISION | ||
| 8:10-8:15 | Moderator: TBD | Opening Remarks | |
| 8:15-8:25 | Sonia Toor | A comparison of tests to monitor the change in accommodation after close work | |
| 8:25-8:35 | Jignasa Mehta | Effect of monocular impaired visual acuity across digital and non-digital stereotests | |
| 8:35-8:45 | Kylie Gran | Comparing Latent Strabismus in Children According to Learning Difficulty Status: A Prospective Case-Control Cross-Sectional Study | |
| 8:45-8:55 | Rani Bahho | The Relationship between Motor Fusion and Stereoacuity in Adults with Normal Binocular Single Vision | |
| 8:55-9:00 | Moderator: | Closing Remarks | |
| Block 15 | THEME: ISA SYMPOSIUM: WHEN THE HEAD POSTURE IS THE MAIN CONCERN | ||
| 9:00-10:00 | Fiona Rowe | Assessment of the anomalous head posture | |
| Daisy Godts | Non-surgical management of the anomalous head posture | ||
| Claudia Yahalom | Anomalous head posture in patients with nystagmus | ||
| Jonathan Holmes | Head posture in thyroid eye disease | ||
| Lional Kowal | Uncommon causes of anomalous head posture | ||
| Andrea Molinari | Paradoxical head tilt in 4th nerve palsy | ||
| 10:00-10:30 | Morning Tea |
| Block 16 | THEME: STRABISMUS | ||
| 10:30-10:35 | Moderator: TBD | Opening Remarks | |
| 10:35-10:45 | Marieke Telleman | Orbital fracture reconstruction improves stereoacuity and ocular alignment: a retrospective cohort study | |
| 10:45-10:55 | Gemma Arblaster | A retrospective review of Harada Ito surgical procedures for superior oblique palsy | |
| 10:55-11:05 | Jane Schuller | Cavernous Conundrums | |
| 11:05-11:15 | Carrie Griffiths | Medial Rectus Metastasis in Advanced Breast Cancer: A Case Study | |
| 11:15-11:25 | Jennifer Earl | Improving strabismus care: A service review of an orthoptic-led paediatric squint listing clinic | |
| 11:25-11:30 | Moderator: | Closing Remarks | |
| Block 17 | THEME: REFRACTIVE ERROR | ||
| 11:30-11:35 | Moderator: TBD | Opening Remarks | |
| 11:35-11:45 | Mythili Ilango | Use of Visual Acuity to Screen for Significant Refractive Errors in Preschool Children | |
| 11:45-11:55 | Gareth Lingham | “Biometry equivalent refraction” as a screening tool for refractive error in children | |
| 11:55-12:05 | Vijay Tailor-Hamblin | Low concentration atropine affects near point of accommodation, but not near visual acuity | |
| 12:05-12:15 | Jan Roelof Polling | Treatment of childhood myopia: Is combination therapy better than atropine alone? | |
| 12:15-12:25 | Manjushri Yuan Rou Lee | Managing Acute Acquired Comitant Esotropia – Effects of Reduced Myopic Prescription | |
| 12:25-12:30 | Moderator: | Closing Remarks | |
| 12:30-1:30 | Lunch |
| Block 18 | THEME: MYOPIA SESSION | ||
| 13:30-13:35 | Moderator: Amanda French | Opening Remarks | |
| 13:35-13:45 | Ian Morgan | The epidemic of myopia and the impact of education | |
| 13:45-13:55 | Amanda French | Preventing myopia through modulation of time outdoors and near work | |
| 13:55-14:05 | Kathryn Rose | The mechanisms for environmental risk factors | |
| 14:05-14:15 | Jason Yam | Management of myopia: atropine and red light therapy | |
| 14:15-14:25 | Felicia Adinanto | Impact of childhood myopia on ocular alignment | |
| 14:25-14:40 | All | Panel Discussion | |
| Block 19 | THEME: STROKE | ||
| 14:45-14:50 | Moderator: TBD | Opening Remarks | |
| 14:50-15:00 | Fiona Rowe | European Stroke Organisation Vision Guidelines: Recommendations for assessment and rehabilitation | |
| 15:00-15:10 | Shanelle Sorbello | Development of the New South Wales Post-stroke Vision Care Framework | |
| 15:10-15:20 | Lauren Hepworth | Evolution of Orthoptic Stroke Services in the UK and Ireland | |
| 15:20-15:30 | Lauren Hepworth | Patient Reported Impact of Post-Stroke Visual Impairment | |
| 15:30-15:40 | Rusmiza Binti Amin | Prevalence of post-stroke visual impairment: A systematic review and meta-analysis | |
| 15:40-15:45 | Moderator: | Closing remarks | |
| CLOSING CEREMONY | |||
| 15:45-16:00 | JR Polling Joel Hyndman | IOA AWARDS Closing remarks | |
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