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Congratulations to our latest Empathy Champion ā University of Leicester medical student Abbey Smales š Abbey was nominated by Dr Andy Ward, Director of Education and Training, for her insightful and articulate description of empathic communication. #empathy #healthcare






International Albinism Awareness Day is today! Come visit our research team at Ulverscroft Eye Unit University of Leicester UoL_SoPVS at our stall in #Leicester Royal Infirmary Leicester's Hospitals (Balmoral Level 1 opp WHSmith) this AM! #AlbinismAwareness #endstigma #CelebrateDiversity


Weāre with Michael Reeve, clinical fellow advocate for inclusion Leicester's Hospitals, to dispel albinism myths: Fact: people with albinism do not have the same eye colour Fact: albinism occurs in *any* ethnic group Fact: people with albinism donāt have any superpowers - good or bad!

š Spotted at our International Albinism Awareness Day stall at Leicester's Hospitals⦠Professor David Huang (OHSU), co-inventor of Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) ā the revolutionary diagnostic technology that transformed global eye care!


Thank you to the incredible Space Park Leicester for hosting the Leicester Ocular Imaging Conference! Weāve got an exciting afternoon of presentations lined up from our research group at Ulverscroft Eye Unit University of Leicester UoL_SoPVS Leicester's Hospitals


Ultra-high speed OCT imaging works 3 times faster than standard OCT - helpful in eye movement disorders like nystagmus. Rishi Sekhri, Acad Foundation Doctor Leicester's Hospitals, spoke on āUltra-High Speed Imaging to Characterise Challenging Ocular Phenotypesā-Leic Ocular Imaging Conf


Spaghetti = artificial intelligence?! š Ha-Jun Yoon, post-doctoral researcher NIH at Leicester Ocular Imaging Conference to University of Leicester UoL_SoPVS Leicester's Hospitals, uses analogy of ingredients for a recipe to explain how we can simplify ocular images into vectors.#oculomics

