PRESS RELEASE
Monday, 15 July 2024

Dates announced for 2025 BCLA Clinical Conference

Next year’s BCLA Clinical Conference and Exhibition will be held in Birmingham, featuring a line-up of world class speakers delivering the latest innovation and clinical insight alongside live demonstrations and hands-on  workshops.

The flagship conference will be staged at The International Convention Centre (ICC) from Thursday, 5 June to Saturday, 7 June, with organisers promising “three days of learning, networking and celebrating”.

Designed to showcase world-class clinically relevant research while nurturing new clinicians and young academics, the BCLA Clinical Conference and Exhibition is widely regarded as one of the highlights of the global eye care calendar. It is unique in the anterior eye and contact lens field for blending industry, academia and clinicians from a range of disciplines.

BCLA chief executive Luke Stevens-Burt said: “This meeting will deliver the latest innovation and clinical insight, with world class speakers on all areas of contact lenses and ocular surface health.

“It promises to be a brilliant three days of learning, networking and celebrating, featuring a host of passionate speakers who can inspire eye care professionals to make a real difference to patients’ lives and ensure we are ‘always learning’.

“We’re delighted to be staging this event in Birmingham – a modern multi-cultural city at the beating heart of Britain. We will be welcoming visitors from around the world and we look forward to them exploring our second city and the wider area. 

“Birmingham’s exceptional transport links mean visitors have easy access to London (just 75 minutes by train) while there are countless tourism hotspots nearby, including Shakespeare’s birthplace of Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwick Castle, Cadbury World and the waterway network. Birmingham itself has a vibrant nightlife.”

The event will consist of a series of hands-on skill workshops, group discussions, peer review, interactive sessions, lectures and will feature BCLA Fellowship presentations and eagerly anticipated professional awards. 

Full details will be announced in due course for the conference programme, which will include clinical sessions for all areas on contact lens fitting and management, independent prescribing with a particular emphasis on anterior eye diseases, updates on Tear Film and Ocular Surface and International Myopia Institute global consensus reports and recent changes in practice patterns in optometry, anterior eye and contact lenses. 

For more details visit www.bcla.org.uk

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