News – Page 6 – The World Assocation of Eye Hospitals

Julien Gottsmann

October 10, 2023
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The Rothschild Foundation Hospital About the Rothschild Foundation Hospital : Created in 1905 in the 19th district of Paris, the Adolphe de Rothschild Foundation Hospital is a private health institution of collective interest (ESPIC) specialized in all pathologies of the...

Interested in sports during the Annual meeting?

October 2, 2023
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Interested in sports during the Annual Meeting? The city of Melbourne is a vibrant food, sport and art capital. For those of you who are interested in sport, there are a number of activities you can do whilst on your trip. If you’re a fan of tennis you can book a court at Melbourne Park...

Sustainability at St. Erik Eye Hospital

October 2, 2023
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Oskar Nordahl Chief Administrative Officer, St. Erik Eye Hospital, Sweden In my presentation, I would like to share our thoughts and plans for creating a more sustainable hospital. In 2020 St. Erik moved from our old facilities to a brand new building. We did not only want to...

Impact through innovation at the Centre for Eye Research Australia

October 2, 2023
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Professor Keith Martin Ringland Anderson Professor and Head of Ophthalmology, University of MelbourneManaging Director, Centre for Eye Research Australia

Tendai Gwenhure

October 1, 2023
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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...

WAEH – Newsletter September

September 30, 2023
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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...

Dhanes Thomas

September 28, 2023
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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...

Yongmei Zhang

September 23, 2023
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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...

Tianjiao Zhan

September 23, 2023
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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...

Jarinne Woudstra-de Jong

September 23, 2023
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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...

Mitchell Wilson

September 23, 2023
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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...

Megan Ward

September 23, 2023
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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;

Amaury Guerrero

September 23, 2023
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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.

Jay Varia

September 22, 2023
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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...

Frank van den Biggelaar

September 22, 2023
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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...

Georgia Hall

September 22, 2023
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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...

Ralf Toenjes

September 22, 2023
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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...

Angela Smith

September 22, 2023
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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...

Mandeep Singh

September 22, 2023
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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...

Toby Pontifex

September 22, 2023
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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 –...

Yu Ling Elizabeth Phua

September 22, 2023
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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....

Danielle Morgan

September 22, 2023
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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...

Joanna McCulloch

September 22, 2023
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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...

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Catherine Mancuso

September 22, 2023
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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...

Li Li

September 22, 2023
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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...

Tze Xing Lee

September 22, 2023
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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...

Farand Laghaei

September 22, 2023
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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...

Cathy Kowaleski

September 22, 2023
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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.

Jean-Pierre Klumpp

September 22, 2023
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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...

Professor Euan Wallace

September 22, 2023
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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...

Jean-Pierre Klumpp

September 22, 2023
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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...

Jos Hubers

September 22, 2023
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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

Jacomijn Gussenhoven

September 22, 2023
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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...

Linda Fagan

September 22, 2023
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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...

Weiwei Dai

September 22, 2023
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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...

Dr. Stefan Larsson

September 22, 2023
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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...

Carmel Crock

September 21, 2023
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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...

Elsie Chan

September 21, 2023
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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...

The Hon Mary-Anne Thomas MP

September 21, 2023
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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...

Penelope Allen

September 21, 2023
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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...