Past Junior Award Winners

2023 - Hingchikristie Leung - winner - Gender distribution of speakers at major ophthalmology conferences and Chung Shen Chean - runner up - Trainees' and Trainers' perceived quality and safety of cataract training within the independent sector in East Midlands South Deanery: a cross-sectional survey.

2022 - Clinical - Adam Bharmal - Preserflo MicroShunt in patients with prior trabeculectomy: A case series

2022 - Academic - Mark Thaller - The Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension prospective cohort maternal health study: evaluation of the impact of pregnancy on outcomes.                                                                                                                   

2021 - Clinical - Shailja Chalishazar - Ophthalmic examination in patients with candidaemia: is it necessary?

2021 - Academic - Gagandeep Sachdeva - The effectiveness of matching human leucocyte antigens (HLA) in corneal transplantation: a systematic review.

2020 - Clinical - George Moussa - Using the West Midlands CONCERT to characterise regional incidence of acute onset post cataract surgery endophthalmitis.

2020 - Academic - Mervyn Thomas - Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to differentiate between normal and abnormal retinal development.

2019 - Clinical - Aditya Kale - Reproducibility of Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) and OCT angiography (OCTA) using a mobile OCT module.    

2019 - Academic - Liying Low - Rapid diagnosis of causative pathogens and antimicrobial genes in ocular infections by nanopore sequencing technology. 

2018 - Clinical - Afrah Riaz - Incidence of sight impairment in patients treated for bilateral wet age-related macular degeneration (wARMD).                                               

2018 - Clinical Runner Up - Jessica Walker - A cross-sectional analysis of glaucoma care in Swaziland: presentation, management and adherence to treatment.         

2017 - Clinical - Christopher Way - Optimizing OCT acquisition parameters for assessments of uveitis.                                                                           

2017 - Academic - Mervyn Thomas - Development and clinical utility of a novel diagnostic next generation sequencing panel for infantile nystagmus.                                                                 

2014 - Joint winners - Matt Edmunds - HAART and Soul: Clinical Challenges of Thyroid Eye Disease in HIV Positive Patients on Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy  and Paul Tomlins - The Ocular Surface Immune Environment Following Haemopoietic Stem Cell Transplant and in Ocular Graft-Versus-Host Disease.

2013 - Matt Edmunds - Metabolomic Analysis of Serum in Graves' Disease and Thyroid Associated Ophthalmology.

2012 - Victor Hu - To Compare In-vivo Confocal Microscopy (IVCM) with the Histopathological Examination of Tissue and Cellular Changes in Normal and Diseased Conjunctiva.

2011 - Geraint Williams - Sub-clinical Inflammation in Pemphigoid: Can "Hidden" Neutrophils Predict Disease Progression?

2010 - Anna Gao - Pseudomonas aeruginosa in ocular infections: Are they all the same or different?