Our Vision and Eye Research Unit (VERU), which is part of the Postgraduate Medical Institute (PMI) hosted the first Cambridge Cornea and Cataract Symposium at St John's College, Cambridge on Thursday 14th April. The Symposium consisted of a series of lectures given by national and international speakers that focused on the twin themes of "Cornea" and "Refractive and cataract surgery". It attracted UK-wide participation from ophthalmologists, optometrists and scientists interested in vision research.

Professor Madhavan Rajan planned and chaired the symposium. Professor Rajan is a senior member of VERU and a Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge. His presentation, entitled "Optimising visual outcome in DSAEK - a practical approach" focused on state of the art refinements of modern corneal transplant surgery, a number of which were developed in VERU in association with Addenbrooke's Hospital.

Roger Buckley, Professor of Ocular Medicine and Associate Director of VERU, spoke on "Allergic eye disease - clinical spectrum, pathology and therapeutics", concentrating on the latest developments in the management of conditions that range from hay fever conjunctivitis, affecting a fifth of the population, to rare sight-threatening diseases. Delegate feedback was most enthusiastic.

The Symposium as a whole attracted excellent feedback from the delegates.

• 95% rated the event excellent or good, with the remaining 5% providing a satisfactory score.
• At least 95% planned to modify their clinical practice based on information gained from the event.

The Symposium was sponsored and organized by Bausch & Lomb and the delegate fees were most generously donated to support corneal research within VERU.

Speaking of the success of the Symposium, VERU Director Professor Shahina Pardhan commented "I am delighted that the symposium was such a success. The fact that 95% attendees plan to modify their clinical practice is ample evidence of how important and relevant the lectures were to clinical practice. We look forward to VERU arranging more of these in the future".

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