<span class="vcard">Ben Williams</span>

ESOPRS AGM 2020

Virtual Full and International Members Meeting, ESOPRS Annual General Meeting 2020   The Virtual Meeting will be held on Friday October 30th, at 17.30 CEST. Please save-the-date! Further details regarding the Virtual Meeting are available here  https://www.esoprs.eu/about-esoprs/annual-meetings/esoprs-agm-2020/ , as well as the Minutes of the AGM 2019 and list of membership applications 2019-2020. Looking very … Read more

Obituary Prof. Dr. Holger Busse

Obituary Prof. Dr. Holger Busse, 1.1.1945 – 29.8.2020 It is our sad duty to announce the unexpected passing of our friend and colleague Holger Busse last Saturday, 29.8.2020. As many of us will know, Holger was one of the founders of ESOPRS in the early eighties last century. He was the Chair of the University … Read more

ESOPRS Webinars: Challenging Clinical Cases

Dear Colleagues,

CHALLENGING CLINICAL CASES

As we all know, the COVID-19 pandemic has caused an unprecedented public health challenge, and we were forced to postpone our Annual Meeting a full year. Hopefully we will physically meet again in Naples in September 2021.

In the meantime, to serve our members and those interested in our teaching activities, we held several webinars on various topics relating to challenging cases in Oculoplastics, Lacrimal and Orbital Surgery: a live ESOPRS Academy. We will continue in 2021 if this initiative will be successful, hopefully with an input from all interested Members.

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A message of support from your ANZSOPS colleagues

Dear ESOPRS Colleagues, A message of support from your ANZSOPS colleagues In a breathtakingly short time the COVID-19 pandemic has spread across the world bringing terrible loss of life, wreaking havoc with health services and threatening the livelihood of millions as businesses struggle to remain afloat during widespread lockdown of entire countries. Many of you, … Read more

Recommendations for oculoplastic surgeons during the COVID-19 pandemic

Updated: 5th April 2020 Dear ESOPRS Members, The current COVID-19 pandemic – caused by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) – has caused an unprecedented international public health challenge. Having first spread in parts of China, it has subsequently spread to more than 100 other countries, with Italy, Spain, and Germany currently bearing the … Read more

World Ophthalmology Congress (WOC2020) goes Virtual

The International Council of Ophthalmology (ICO) is deeply committed to the health and safety of our communities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Unfortunately, due to escalating risks, a physical meeting of our international colleagues and partners at the World Ophthalmology Congress (WOC2020) in Cape Town 26–29 June, is no longer possible. While we are all disappointed that our … Read more

ESOPRS dedicated COVID-19 discussion forum

During these unprecedented times, with much of Europe in lockdown, we find ourselves in unchartered territory and unable to treat patients. Many of us now need to think innovatively about how we manage our patients and our practices. ESOPRS has created a dedicated discussion forum to share experiences; we will have much to learn from … Read more

ASOPRS 2020 President

The American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery announces that Mark J. Lucarelli, MD, FACS, has assumed the Presidency for 2020. The American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (ASOPRS) was founded in 1969 to establish a qualified body of surgeons with excellence in the highly specialized field of oculofacial plastic surgery. ASOPRS … Read more