ICO Winter Meeting and Montgomery Lecture
15 November 2024
Albert Theatre, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, 123 St Stephen's Green, Dublin 2
Winter Meeting "What Might the Future of Practice Look Like"?
Time: 2-5pm
The ICO Winter meeting will include short presentations and a session on the future of ophthalmic practice. This session will facilitate a conversation about what the future of practice might look like with contributions from those in public and independent practice in ophthalmology and other specialties. There will also be contributions from ophthalmologists practicing outside of Ireland who will share their impressions of the changing ownership and funding structures in medicine and how that may impact the specialty.
Call for Abstracts:
Abstract submission at the following link: https://forms.gle/
Closing date for submission: Monday, 21st October 2024
Annual Montgomery Lecture
Prof Robert Scott will deliver the Montgomery Lecture 2024 on Friday, November 15th in the Albert Hall, RCSI.
Drinks Reception: 5pm
Lecture: 6pm
Professor Robert Scott is a Consultant Ophthalmologist who qualified from St Thomas’ Hospital in London in 1987 and specialised in ophthalmology at Moorfields Eye Hospital, London.
Prof Scott is a former Royal Air Force Lead Military Consultant Ophthalmologist at the Birmingham and Midland Eye Centre (BMEC) and Royal Centre for Defence Medicine (RCDM) at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, sub-specialising in eye trauma, advanced cataract and vitreoretinal surgery.
He served as the Royal Air Force and Defence Medical Services Consultant Advisor for Ophthalmology for a decade and was appointed as the Defence Medical Services and Royal College of Ophthalmologists Professor of Ophthalmology in 2012 and honorary Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Birmingham in 2015.
In 2018 he founded ScottHealth Ltd to provide and develop modern ophthalmic treatments and is developing new treatments for scarring of the eye after retinal detachment surgery, keratoconus, new eye drops to treat age-related macular degeneration and certain eye and brain cancers.
Prof Scott holds clinics in London and Birmingham. In London, at the Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth in St John's Wood and at Harley Street. In Birmingham, he practises at Edgbaston Eye Consultants Clinic at 22 George Road, Edgbaston, deep in the heart of the Edgbaston Medical Quarter.