Eye Care Week 2009 - Healthy Eyes – Your Responsibility

Sangre Grande Hospital Ophthalmology was opened on 2nd May 2007. Its mission is to bring quality Eyecare to the Eastern Region using ophthalmology and optometry resources. To celebrate our first very successful year, the Optometry Unit hosted Eye Care Week in May 2008. Building on this success, SGHO presented Eye Care Week 2009 which focused this year on glaucoma and diabetes. 

Flexlens workshop

To follow up on last years Eye Care Week, where the theme was keratoconus, SGHO hosted a contact lens fitting workshop at the end of May which focused on the Flexlens, a soft lens for keratoconus supplied in the US by Walmans. SGHO now has two soft lens options for keratoconus patients who cannot tolerate RGP lenses, the other being KeraSoft from the UK.       go to Flexlens workshop

     
 
Conference Day was on 8th of May and included lectures given by SGHO ophthalmologist Shiv Ramdeen and guest speakers from the UK, ophthalmologist Mr Rupert Bourne and Hospital Optometrist, Wendy Newsom
Details of the lectures will be on the website shortly

   

Guest Lecturers from the UK were:

Mr Rupert Bourne Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon for: Huntingdon Glaucoma Diagnostic & Research Centre; Hinchingbrooke Hospital (Huntingdon)Moorfields Eye Hospital (Bedford); Addenbrooke’s Hospital (Cambridge); Professor of Ophthalmology Anglia Ruskin University (Cambridge)

Ms Wendy Newsom is Principal Optometrist at Hinchingbrooke Hospital running the triage for the ophthalmology department

  

 

Flexlens workshop 

The workshop was presented by Dr Edgar Davila and Felipe Arroyave and demonstrated the use of Flexlens as a soft lens option for keratoconus patients.

The lens is manufactured in the US and distributed by Walmans. 

For more information and a program of Eye Care Week events, go to the Eye Care Week page.

Contact for SGHO conference: Petra Bridgemohan

Sponsors for Eye care Week 2009