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Tendai Gwenhure

Tendai Gwenhure

Tendai is an academic, a clinician and a researcher. In her academic role, she is the programme director at UCL Institute of Ophthalmology where she has been leading on the Clinical Ophthalmic Practice programme for nurses since 2019. Clinically, she has worked at Moorfields Eye Hospital as an ophthalmic...

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WAEH – Newsletter September

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WAEH 17th Annual Meeting Submit your poster! ^ The winning poster of the 2018 meeting!Like in previous years we would like to invite you to submit a poster for the upcoming annual meeting of the WAEH. The posters will be displayed during the conference from the 10th till the...

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Dhanes Thomas

Dhanes Thomas

Designing Infrastructure to Drive Excellence in Patient Care – The Moorfields Oriel Experience Quality and safety in health care delivery fundamentally depends on an organisation having a physical infrastructure and operational environment with clinical excellence and optimum staff welfare embedded...

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Yongmei Zhang

Yongmei Zhang

How globalization and innovation are revolutionizing the global eye care system? Aier is now the largest eye service provider in the world in terms of the scale of the network, with its presence in 3 continents and 9 countries. How does globalization help Aier to grow and what do we see in the...

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Tianjiao Zhan

Tianjiao Zhan

Group based medical quality and safety control Located in a large developing country, facing the problem of large number of grassroots eye diseases and limited resources, Aier has been continuously seeking for a successful way of eye health network management through its group based medical quality...

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Jarinne Woudstra-de Jong

Jarinne Woudstra-de Jong

Measurement of Quality of Life with Patient-Reported Outcome Measures for Patients with Vitreoretinal Conditions Vitreoretinal eye conditions have a major impact on people’s quality of life (QOL). To quantify QOL, patient reported outcome measures (PROMs) should be used. These are standardized,...

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Mitchell Wilson

Mitchell Wilson

Maintaining a Positive Patient Experience in a fast-paced surgical environment In the fast -pace world of health care delivery the expectations to meet targets and cut costs can at times dominate what is seems important when managing a hospital department. A positive patient experience is underpinned...

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Megan Ward

Megan Ward

Grateful Patient Fundraising – Working with Clinicians & Staff Learning Objectives:Understand the roles of clinicians: academic medical faculty, community physicians and staff in a medical setting related to philanthropy;

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Amaury Guerrero

Amaury Guerrero

CEO – H+Brasil Group Hospitais Oftalmológicos Mr. Guerrero is a business executive with 30 years of experience in the pharmaceutical and surgical/medical devices multinational companies. Most of his career is in the ophthalmology segment in US and Latin America countries.

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Jay Varia

Jay Varia

Ophthalmology is the second busiest outpatient specialty in the UK with 9 million outpatient appointments per annum for 1482 consultant ophthalmologists, 27% who are due to retire this year (Royal College of Ophthalmologists Workforce Census 2018). Ophthalmic professionals already work alongside...

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Frank van den Biggelaar

Frank van den Biggelaar

Same-day bilateral cataract surgery: towards an optimal implementation in the Netherlands The Netherlands is a leading country in providing immediate sequential bilateral cataract surgery (ISBCS) as a treatment for cataracts. In a large study (coordinated by the University Eye Clinic Maastricht)...

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Georgia Hall

Georgia Hall

Ambassador to the Victoria Cohen Eye Cancer Charitable Trust – Australasia Georgia Hall was diagnosed and treated for choroidal melanoma in 2021 at Sydney Eye Hospital when she was 31 years old. She successfully received eye sparing plaque radiation therapy and now follows a rigorous scanning...

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Ralf Toenjes

Ralf Toenjes

Strengthening Eye Health through Collaboration for Philanthropic Assistance to Vulnerable Populations Instituto Suel Abujamra, in collaboration with Renovatio, Instituto Verter, and GoodVision South America, has formed a strategic alliance called Juntos pela Visão (“United for Vision”). Over the...

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Angela Smith

Angela Smith

Volunteer to Career Attracting and retaining a skilled workforce is a key challenge facing not just ophthalmology, but also the wider global health sector. The enormous pressure on existing staff has only intensified in recent years. Moorfields have been using volunteers to support paid staff...

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Mandeep Singh

Mandeep Singh

Artificial Intelligence in Clinical Trials for Regenerative Medicine At a time when the presses are abuzz with the possibilities of AI, this talk provides a vision for what ma be possible if we combine AI technology with cutting edge diagnostics now under development and clinical trial design...

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Toby Pontifex

Toby Pontifex

Instruments outside of theatre- A Culture Change Work commenced in 2018 at the Eye and Ear Hospital to progress the implementation of AS/NZS 4187: Reprocessing of reusable medical devices in health service organisations, and to meet the mandatory requirements of Standard 3 – Preventing and...

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Yu Ling Elizabeth Phua

Yu Ling Elizabeth Phua

Operating Theatre Game-based Pre-training in enhancing learning experience, knowledge and self-efficacy scores for novice nurses Learning curve of novice nurses in the operating theatre are steep and nurses usually go through extensive training to be a competent peri-operative nurse. Innovation...

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Danielle Morgan

Danielle Morgan

I-SHARE: Information sharing to enhance the patient experience Survey data collected in 2020 & 2023 revealed patients did not feel well-informed about services prior toappointments at the Eye Outpatients Department (EYEOPD). 50% of patients reported that they had never received supporting...

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Joanna McCulloch

Joanna McCulloch

Cataract Patient reported outcome measures (PROMS): Catquest, Priquest or CatPROM The Sydney Eye Hospital is a quaternary referral unit for eye diseases located in the central business district of Sydney, Australia. On average, Sydney Eye Hospital currently performs over 295 cataract operations...

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Catherine Mancuso

Catherine Mancuso

Designing safe work spaces The design phase of the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital’s Redevelopment commenced over ten years ago. Throughout the design phase there were particular priorities centred around the provision of high quality care for our patients in a state of the art, modern facility;...

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Li Li

Li Li

Aier Eye Hospital Group: Rising from Integration and Collaboration 2023 marks the 21st anniversary for the estabilishment of Aier Eye Hosptial Group. Based on the orginalintention of ‘commit to the cause of human eye health with love’ and the principle of ‘integrate variousresources to share the...

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Tze Xing Lee

Tze Xing Lee

Engagement with patients to improve patient experience and increase understanding of Glaucoma Glaucoma focus group enables patients and their caregivers to empower themselves with knowledge to aid themselves to cope with this chronic eye disease. In 2022 and early 2023, three runs of Glaucoma...

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Farand Laghaei

Farand Laghaei

Sustainability in Dutch health care In my presentation, I would like to go from a national (Dutch) perspective on sustainability in (ophthalmic) health care to a more local approach on executing the plans within our eye hospital. Furthermore, I would like to show how we are implementing the Green...

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Cathy Kowalski

Cathy Kowaleski

Wilmer/Hopkins-QI Overview ~ Top impact projects This presentation will provide a general overview of Hopkins structure for quality and safety and highlight several specific Wilmer (eye) examples of impactful QI initiatives and outcomes.

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Jean-Pierre Klumpp

Jean-Pierre Klumpp

Patient Safety & Quality Management – An Integrated Iterative Process Patient Safety & Quality Management – Advantages of An Integrated Iterative Process on a common Platform – Examples of measures taken in the operating theatre (checklist time out procedure) and in the...

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Professor Euan Wallace

Prior to his appointment, from 2017-2020 Euan was the inaugural CEO of Safer Care Victoria, the state’s lead agency for healthcare quality and safety. Before joining the government, Euan was an academic clinician. He was the Carl Wood Professor and Head of Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology...

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Jean-Pierre Klumpp

Jean-Pierre Klumpp

Philanthropy Based Funding – Very Valuable for Access to Care and Human Aspects of Rare Diseases – How Clinicians Contribute Actively Presentation of the Importance of Phylanthropy as additional Funding source for a Foundation dedicated to Visual Health and Eye care with presentation of...

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Jos Hubers

Jos Hubers

Still thinking about it A summary of results of the HR community of practices Results of a employee/opthalmologistst work experience survey in relation to retention of our employees “new” recruitmenttools to find the right employees

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Jacomijn Gussenhoven

Jacomijn Gussenhoven

A shaky path: improving patientoutcomes & experiences In 2015 The Rotterdam Eye Hospital started very modestly with the implementation of Value BasedHealthcare with the introduction of de CatQuest questionnaire for cataract patients. Eight years later VBHC is part of the strategic goals of...

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Linda Fagan

Linda Fagan

Sydney Eye Hospital Foundation-philanthropy in promotion of eye How Sydney Eye Hospital Foundation future-proofed its own capacity and is partnering with the first hospital established in Australia, NSW’s world- class Sydney Eye Hospital, identifying opportunities, engaging community and...

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Weiwei Dai

FedEye: A Scalable and Adaptable Federated Learning Platform for AI in Eye Health The advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have brought about significant changes in healthcare. The success of machine learning in healthcare depends on the quality and quantity of...

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Stefan Larsson, MD, PhD,

Dr. Stefan Larsson

Progress in Healthcare requires focus on outcomes that matter to patients Bio Stefan Larsson, MD, PhD, is co-founder of the International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHOM). He is an independent advisor in health care and life sciences, and a senior advisor to Boston Consulting...

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Dr Carmel Crock

Carmel Crock

On creating a diagnostic safety program – one eye hospital’s experience In this presentation we will describe the development of a diagnostic safety program in our hospital.The program is based on development of clinical practice guidelines, morning handover with cross checking night...

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Elsie Chen

Elsie Chan

WAEH Medical Outcome Indicator Set Data: Keratoconus This presentation summarises the processes involved in the development of the first WAEH MedicalOutcome Indicator Set, for the corneal condition keratoconus. This set of Patient-Centered OutcomeMeasures brought together patient groups and clinicians...

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The Hon Mary-Anne Thomas MP

The Hon Mary-Anne Thomas MP Minister for Health, Minister for Health Infrastructure, Minister for Medical Research, Leader of the House  Mary-Anne Thomas was appointed Minister for Health in June 2022, Minister for Health Infrastructure in December 2022 & Minister for Medical Research...

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Penelope Allen

Penelope Allen

The Suprachoroidal Retinal Prosthesis My presentation will describe our work to develop a retinal prosthesis for use in people with profound vision loss due to end-stage retinal dystrophies. This has been tested in two clinical trials and aids navigation and object localisation. I will present...

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WAEH 🌍 – Annual Meeting

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Eye Colleagues Worldwide, Excited to Meet in Australia! WAEH2023 is scheduled for October 10-14, and we’re excited to welcome eye health experts from around the globe who are eager to share their wealth of knowledge! Your journey to Australia promises to be truly rewarding. You’ll...

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Newsletter Wilmer Eye Institute – Full member of the WAEH

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Dear friends and colleagues, September is always a busy time, with students returning to classes, the days growing shorter and ophthalmology meetings taking place with increasing frequency. In this issue, we look at some of the places our faculty members have been recently and some of the exciting...

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Melbourne by Night

Global eye hospital specialists converge on Melbourne

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The 17th World Association of Eye Hospitals (WAEH) annual meeting 11 and 12 October The Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital (Eye and Ear) is gearing up to host a gathering of eye hospital professionals from around the globe as part of the WAEH annual meeting. Founded in 2007 by eight...

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