Programme
9.00 Registration and refreshments
9.45 Welcome: Keziah Latham
9.55 - 10.35 Lecture One: Wearable Electronic Vision Enhancement Systems: A Glimpse of the Future or Just Old Hat? - Andrew Miller
10.35 - 11.00 RWPN Annual General Meeting
11.00 - 11.25 break
11.25 - 12.15 Lecture Two: Anatomy of the eye and links to eye health (provisional title) - Keziah Latham Professor of Optometry, Director of Vision & Hearing Sciences, Vision and Eye Research Institute
12.15 - 13.15 Lunch
13.15 - 14.05 Workshop: One of three from:
a) Filters (provisional title) Richard Bowring, Associated Optical and Jane MacNaughton, Anglia Ruskin University
b) Should there be a qualification for VRS assistants? Widening professional opportunities, growing the profession and meeting unmet needs or a potential threat to the survival of the profession by accident? A session that will guide RWPN’s position on the issue. Discussion and debate led by Simon Labbett and Shaun Basham
c) Tommy Dean Guide Dogs (content to be agreed)
14.05 - 14.30 break
14.30 - 15.20 Workshop: One from the three above
15.20 - Closing comments
Notes
£47 per person including buffet lunch and refreshments
Support workers no charge (but must be included for numbers in the booking)
