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We congratulate our new ESOPRS members, who were accepted at the 2024 ESOPRS Annual General Meeting (AGM) of September 13th, 2024. Their membership will become active once they pay for their subscription. There are 20 new Full Members, 4 International Members, 6 Associate Members and 14 Candidate Members, giving a total of 44 new members.

New Full Members 2024

We congratulate our new ESOPRS members, who were accepted at the 2017 ESOPRS Annual Meeting in Stockholm. There are sixteen new Full Members, one International Members, one Associate Member and one Candidate Member. FULL MEMBERSHIP Dr Paola Bonavolonta, Naples, Italy Dr Vladimir Kratky, Prague, Czech Republic Dr Thibaut Devogelaere, Oudenburg, Belgium Dr Peter Toft, Copenhagen, Denmark Dr Jonathan Roos, Norwich, U.K. Dr Evangelos Lindardos, Drosia, Greece Dr Daniele Lorenzano, London, U.K. Dr Andre Luis Borba da Silva, Lisboa, Portugal Dr Ayse Dolar Bilge, Istanbul, Turkey Dr Corina Ioana Butea-Simionescu, Bucharest Romania Dr... read more

Dear colleagues and friends of ESOPRS! It was a pleasure to host the 38th annual ESOPRS meeting in Hamburg! The meeting was attended by over 700 colleagues from 61 nations over three days. Four, for those who arrived early and participated in our trial “lacrimal Wednesday”. In the invitational letter, we stated that “our society’s meetings have always been known to be an occasion to connect not only professionally but to make friends across borders throughout our careers”. We hope that Hamburg welcomed... read more

An extraordinary Full Members Meeting (online) was scheduled to be held on January 15th on 09.30 CET. UPDATE: 6th December 2021 The Council has just agreed to postpone the extraordinary AGM meeting that was going to be scheduled for January 15th, until further notice due to work in progress regarding the new CIO of ESOPRS and the ESOPRS book project. We will update this post when the date for the extraordinary AGM has been agreed. read more

We are sad to announce the sudden loss of two or our most senior and revered lacrimal surgeons, Professor Jeffrey Jay Hurwitz (Canada) and Professor Sergey Shkolnick (Russia).

Jeffrey Jay Hurwitz

Recording of "Challenging Cases in Oculofacial Plastic Surgery #5" is now available to view. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSzc87hV0ag   read more

Inna Vladimirovna Sasim was born and raised in Baranovitsji, a small town southwest of Minsk in the former Sovjet state of Belarus. She passed high school with high marks and studied medicine in Minsk with just as good results. Like her older sister, she specialized in ophthalmology and became a staff-member in Hospital 10 in Minsk. After completing a PhD at the University of Minsk, she developed an interest in orbitology and oculoplastic surgery and went to Utrecht, the Netherlands,... read more

To increase the communication between members on the forum, each subscribed member now gets an email when new posts are added to the “All Case Discussions” forum. You can turn off the email notification from the forum. Click on the “All Case Discussions” to enter the specific forum If you are “Subscribed” to get email notification it will have a yellow box to allow you to “Unsubscribe” if you wish. If you are not subscribed, you can click “Subscribe to this forum” and... read more

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  Dear colleagues and friends, We want to thank everyone who joined us in Naples last month for the 41st ESOPRS Annual Meeting! With a whopping 800 participants in the general meeting and 560 in the Pre-meeting course, this year's event was one of ESOPRS' largest gatherings ever. The ESOPRS Committee is grateful for the great efforts made by local organizers Diego Strianese, Adriana Iuliano, Fausto Trance, Giovanni Uccello, Vittoria Lanni and Mariapaola Laezza, who kindly hosted the 41st Annual Meeting in Naples.... read more