Speaker: Professor Graham E Holder, Hong-Leong Professor, NUS & NUH, Consultant Electrophysiologist, Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, Honorary Professor, Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London & Honorary Professor, University of Sydney Medical School

A case based presentation will demonstrate the clinical value of visual electrophysiological testing with examples drawn from ophthalmic, neurological and paediatric populations of inherited or acquired disease. Electrophysiology provides objective functional assessment of retinal cell types and layers; of the macula and retinal ganglion cells; and of the intracranial visual pathways. When combined with history and examination, it facilitates diagnoses and improves management. The distinction between maculopathy and optic neuropathy is enabled, sometimes difficult clinically. Further, despite tremendous advances in imaging retinal structure, cases will show that structure may not reflect function and both may be needed for accurate diagnosis.

Registration & breakfast at 7.10am, talk begins at 7.40am.