Moorfields celebrates with optometry reunion

Moorfields Eye Hospital is to celebrate its bicentenary with a special 'reunion day' for its optometry department.

As well as a series of lectures, the March 17 event will include a special reunion dinner in the evening, as part of the hospital's four-day scientific meeting to mark its 200-year history.

The day's talks are to be split into four themes - 'Medical contact lenses', 'Low vision research', Departmental research' and 'Optometry and beyond'.

A number of lectures will be given by Moorfields' optometry department alumni, including Dr Robert Harper - 'Moving towards improved evidence for the effectiveness of low vision interventions'; Professor Martin Rubinstein - 'The challenges of the corneal graft in the contact lens clinic'; and Professor Roger Anderson - 'Reading letters in the peripheral retina'.

Former heads of department - Louise Culham, Christine Astin, Professor Geoff Woodward and Janet Silver -  will also give talks.

The meeting will take place at the Royal Lancaster Hotel, Hyde Park, before the reunion dinner at 7.30pm, which will take place at the Royal Society of Medicine.