Courses
JUNE TUBE BLEB LAB
Date: Monday 2 June 2025
Venue: ICENI Centre, Colchester Hospital
Suitable for: East of England Deanery Trainees
Course Details:
Baeveldt, ClearPath & EyePlate, EyeWatch, EyeTube, PAUL GI Tube, Preserflo and XEN45 video analysis.
Practice using Tube implants for peritomy/dissection, MMC micro-sponges, muscle hooks for S+L recti, anchoring techniques and sutures, intraluminal prolene tubes, removal of resealable stent sutures in theatre and on slit lamp and perioperative care and management of complications.
Surgical instructors:
- Mr Georgios Chatzithanasis
- Mr Dimitios Lolos
- Mr Nuwan Nyadurupola
- Mr Anthimos Vlavianos
- Mr Chrys Dimitriou
This course will be open for booking soon.

Mr Chrys Dimitriou
iGLEAMS in 3D – East of England Glaucoma Microsurgical Symposium
DATE: Next Date TBC
SUITABLE FOR: Ophthalmic Surgeons, Nurses, Trainees & Theatre Staff, & Optometrists.
EXAMPLE PROGRAMME FROM 2024- Day One
- ‘The Battle of Schlemm’s Canal: Which MiGS, Who, Why and When.’
- ‘Real World 24 Month Results of MINIject Surgery and Early Experience with MiMS.’
- ‘Target IOP? Poor Thing!’
- ‘The Future of Lasers in Glaucoma.’
- ‘Pioneering a Simulation Lab for Eye Surgery: Top Tips.’
- ‘MiGS for Kids.’
- ‘Trabecular Imaging Techniques post-MiGS.’
- ‘Do You Believe in MiGS after MiGS.’
- ‘New Horizons and Latest Discoveries in Aqueous Angiography and Outflow Imaging.’
- Cinema 3D Session of NGenuity MiGS Cases.
Delegate Quotes from iGLEAMS 2024:
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“Excellent and informative day. Really enjoyed and will be back next year!”
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“Would highly recommend. The second day was great and really interactive.”
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“Loved listening to experts in the field. The 3D surgeries were the highlight of the day.”

Mr Chrys Dimitriou
Mr Dimitriou is an award-winning substantive consultant ophthalmic surgeon, specialising in modern cataract surgery and glaucoma therapy, as well as all general eye conditions. He regularly performs small-incision phacoemulsification and femto-laser assisted cataract surgery (>33-40 operations per week) both routine and advanced in near-sighted and short-sighted eyes with small pupils, angle closure, narrow chambers, and co-existing glaucoma.