May 2014


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The first regional Ophthalmic Ultrasonography Workshop was held at the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex, on March 15 and 16, 2014. The project was a collaboration between The UWI (Dr. Desirée Murray, Lecturer in Ophthalmology) and the Cole Eye Institute, Cleveland Clinic (Dr. Arun Singh – Director, Ophthalmic Oncology, Mrs. Brandy Hayden-Lorek – Director, Diagnostic Imaging, and Dr. Annapurna Singh – Glaucoma specialist). Thirty nine participants including consultant ophthalmologists, consultant radiologists, ophthalmology and radiology trainees, ophthalmic assistants and technicians, radiographers and ultrasonographers from Barbados, Canada, Grenada, Guyana, St. Lucia and Trinidad and Tobago attended. (Figure 1).

The workshop was divided into didactic lectures and interesting case presentations on Saturday and practical “hands-on” stations on Sunday. Attendees were able to enquire from the company representatives about the various ultrasound machines available and also entered a competition to win a gift bag (POEN) and two IMAX tickets courtesy of Eye See You Ophthalmics. The course dinner at the Hyatt Regency Hotel on Saturday evening facilitated further engagement with the faculty.

On Sunday, the participants were placed into three groups of twelve, rotating between stations every hour. Following demonstrations by Dr. Arun Singh (Figure 2), Dr. Brandy Hayden (Figure 3) and Ms. Nancy London (Figure 4), they were able to practise techniques of UBM, immersion biometry and B scan ultrasound on one another. The day concluded with a vote of thanks from Dr. Murray to all who volunteered their time and effort to make the workshop a success.