Dry Eye Workshop
Ready to take your dry eye clinic to the next level?
Designed for practices already offering dry eye services, our next Specialist Club event explores the latest innovations, advanced techniques and emerging technologies shaping the future of dry eye management.
Featuring expert-led lectures and hands-on workshops worth a total of 16 CPD points, the programme will introduce new approaches to diagnosis, treatment and patient care, helping you refine your clinical offering and deliver even better outcomes for your patients.
Held at the ABDO Resource Centre, the event will make full use of its fully equipped consulting rooms, providing the ideal environment to experience the skills that you can implement in your own practice.
Monday, 12th October 2026
09:00 – 17:00
ABDO National Resource Centre
4th Floor, Aqueous II, Aston Cross, Business Village
Chester Street
Birmingham
B6 5RQ
Dry Eye 102 - What to do when your treatment is not working!
Speaker: Craig Wilcox
While Intense Pulsed Light (IPL) has been used in Dermatology for many years it is still an emerging modality in eye care. This workshop explores the scope of ocular conditions that can be treated or managed with this technology, starting with an overview of the science and then move on to IPL’s applications in eye care, followed by looking at some patient cases.
Workshop: Lacrimal Irrigation
Speaker: Phil Thompson
This workshop will revise hyperosmolarity and the inflammatory nature of Dry Eye disease. It will demonstrate the use of an osmolarity device and InflammaDry test as aids to both ruling-in and ruling-out dry eye disease. Following their demonstration, delegates will be able to practice using both tools for themselves.
Workshop: Punctal Occlusion with Lacrifill Canalicular Gel
Speaker: Michelle Beach
This workshop will revise the role of the meibomian glands and how meibography can assist with the diagnosis and subsequent management of dry eye. Two alternative instruments that enable assessment of the condition of the meibomian glands will be demonstrated and the results reviewed and discussed. Following this delegates will be able to practice taking meibography images for themselves.
Workshop: TBC
Speaker: TBC
Oral Supplementation in Dry Eye - What's New?
Speaker: Craig Wilcox
This workshop will revise the role of the meibomian glands and how meibography can assist with the diagnosis and subsequent management of dry eye. Two alternative instruments that enable assessment of the condition of the meibomian glands will be demonstrated and the results reviewed and discussed. Following this delegates will be able to practice taking meibography images for themselves.
Workshop: Amniotic Membrane in Dry Eye Mangement
Speaker: Andrew Hopkinson
Though dry eye symptoms can be significantly reduced with the use of artificial tears, patients can feel burdened with the frequent use of drops and become non-compliant. Punctal plugs can relieve some of this burden. In this workshop we will demonstrate, and delegates will practice, the inse ion and removal of semi-perminent silicone punctum plugs.
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Pictures from previous year’s events