ESOPRS News Archive
ESOPRS 2024 Christmas Reflections
As 2024 draws to a close, we reflect with pride on an extraordinary year filled with progress, collaboration, and shared achievements, all made possible by the dedication and passion of...
43rd ESOPRS Annual Meeting in Prague, Sept 11-13 2025
We are happy to announce that the 43rd Annual Meeting of the European Society of Ophthalmic Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery (ESOPRS) will take place in Prague, Czech Republic on...
Reflections on the 42nd ESOPRS Annual Meeting in Rotterdam
Dear colleagues and friends, We want to thank everyone who joined us in Rotterdam for the 42nd Annual Meeting of the European Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery! With over...
New ESOPRS Members 2024
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...
ESOPRS Textbook on Ophthalmic Plastic, Lacrimal and Orbital Surgery
We are pleased to announce the publication of the ESOPRS Textbook on Ophthalmic Plastic, Lacrimal and Orbital surgery, published by Springer. This two-volume book covers all aspects of oculoplastic conditions and...
Winter Meeting of ESOPRS in Italy (29 January– 02 February 2025)
ESOPRS winter meeting 2025 will be held from 29 January – 02 February at Madonna di Campiglio (TN), Italy. Please note the meeting will be only open to FULL and INTERNATIONAL...
In Memoriam: Professor Dr. Juan Murube del Castillo (1934-2024)
It is with deep sorrow that we share the news of the passing of Professor Dr Juan Murube del Castillo. Today, our hearts are heavy as we reflect on the...
ESOPRS 2023 Christmas Reflections
In September this year we had the pleasure of meeting friends and colleagues in the ancient setting of Naples, during our 41st Annual Meeting of ESOPRS. The host, Diego Strianese...
Reflections on the 41st ESOPRS Annual Meeting in Naples
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...
New ESOPRS Members 2023
We congratulate our new ESOPRS members, who were accepted at the 2023 ESOPRS Annual General Meeting (AGM) of September 15, 2023. There are 19 new Full Members, 5 International Members, 8...
ESOPRS AGM 2023
Full and International Members Meeting, ESOPRS Annual General Meeting 2023
The Annual General Meeting will be held on Friday, September 15, 2023, 17.00-18.00 (CEST) Further details regarding the AGM are available hereObituary – Prof. Dr. Med. Charles Beyer-Machule
Prof. Dr. Med. Charles Beyer-Machule passed away peacefully on July 9 after a brief illness. He was born in Berthelsdorf, Germany on June 4, 1927 and is survived by Janice, his...
Winter Meeting of ESOPRS in Austria (24-28 January 2024)
ESOPRS winter meeting 2024 will be held from 24th to 28th January 2024 at Sportresort Alpenblick, Zell am See-Kaprun, Austria. Please note the meeting will be only open to FULL and...
Obituary – Dr Richard L. Anderson, the Legend
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of one of the World’s finest oculoplastic surgeons, Dr Richard L Anderson. Dr. Richard Anderson (Rick) was a World-renowned professor, author...
WSOPRAS deadline for submissions of abstracts is on January 25, 2023
Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to announce that we are in the last day for abstract submissions to the World Society of Ophthalmic, Plastic, Reconstructive, and Aesthetic Surgeons (WSOPRAS 2023). With the...
Mr John Edward Wright, Past President of ESOPRS, died on January 6th 2023, after a short illness
John Wright -- known affectionately to colleagues as “JW” -- was born in May 1933 and, with clouds of war brewing over Europe, he was evacuated and spent much of...
Reflections on the 40th ESOPRS Annual Meeting in Nice
After two years of pandemic, with one ESOPRS meeting cancelled and one held virtually, we finally had the opportunity to see each other again face to face in Nice...
Winter Meeting of ESOPRS in Andorra (09-11 March 2023)
ESOPRS winter meeting 2023 will be held from 9th to 11th march 2023 at the Sport Hotel Hermitage & Spa, Soldeu-Grandvalira, Andorra. Please note the meeting will be only open to...
New ESOPRS Members 2022
We congratulate our new ESOPRS members, who were accepted at the 2022 ESOPRS Virtual Annual General Meeting (AGM) of September 16th, 2022. There are 16 new Full Members, 4 International Members, 16...
Obituary – Bruno FAYET
Bruno FAYET February 1st, 1954 - August 18th, 2022. We would like to share the very sad news of the sudden death of Bruno FAYET on Friday August 18th, 2022. Bruno FAYET, MD,...
Challenging Cases in Oculofacial Plastic Surgery #5 – Recording
Recording of "Challenging Cases in Oculofacial Plastic Surgery #5" is now available to view.
International Symposium on Wartime Ophthalmic Trauma
ESOPRS is proud to provide partnership support to the first on-line International Symposium on Wartime Ophthalmic Trauma, organised by ASOPRS. The meeting is on May 7, 2022, with costs generously...
OBITUARY
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
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Save the date, Cases and discussions of challenging pediatric oculoplastic cases by world leaders.
A joint APSOPRS-ESOPRS Webinar Saturday 2nd July 2022 More info here https://www.esoprs.eu/news/event/challenging-cases-in-oculofacial-plastic-surgery-5/
ESOPRS/ASOPRS symposium on ’Nuances in Periocular Reconstruction’ (5th Feb 2022)
On the 5th of February the digital ESOPRS/ASOPRS symposium on ’Nuances in Periocular Reconstruction’ was held. The two hour interactive Meeting was well attended by more than 400 attendees from...
New ESOPRS Members 2021
We congratulate our new ESOPRS members, who were accepted at the 2021 ESOPRS Virtual Annual General Meeting (AGM) of October 9th, 2021. There are 11 new Full Members, 1 International Members,...
Winter Meeting of ESOPRS in Zermatt (10-13 March 2022)
ESOPRS winter meeting 2022 will be held from 10 to 13 march 2022 at the Sunstar hotel, Zermatt, Switzerland. Final deadline for registration is the 12th of January 2022, but places...
Extraordinary Full Members Meeting
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...
40th ESOPRS Annual Meeting in Nice, 2022, Sept 15-17
Last week our Treasurer David Verity has signed the contract with the professional congress organizer in Nice. Local organisers will be Jacques Lagier and Olivier Galatoire, assisted by Arnaud Martel...
ESOPRS AGM 2021
Virtual Full and International Members Meeting, ESOPRS Annual General Meeting 2021
The Virtual Meeting will be held on Saturday October 9th 2021, at 10.30-12.00 CEST. Please save-the-date! Further details regarding the Virtual Meeting...Call for e-poster abstracts
To promote and stimulate new members there will be an e-poster session during the 2021 ESOPRS meeting. You are invited to submit abstracts in any of the scientific topics:...
Apply for an ICO Fellowship
Join the more than 1,200 ophthalmologists from 84 countries who have been granted ICO Fellowships. The ICO Fellowships program supports promising young ophthalmologists from low resource countries in improving their...
Annual Meeting 2021 online event
Updated: 05/05/2021 On behalf of ESOPRS’ Executive Officers Francesco Quaranta-Leoni, David Verity and local organizers Diego Strianese and Adriana Iuliano, I would like to inform you that we have decided to...
Joint APSOPRS – ESOPRS Meeting
The 3rd Challenging case in Oculofacial plastic surgery Meeting Theme: Hot Points in Hot Orbit February 6th, 2021 More info here https://www.esoprs.eu/news/event/joint-apsoprs-esoprs-meeting/ Register here https://iravo.org/regmeeting.aspx
ESOPRS and SASOPS partner societies
The Executive Council of ESOPRS is happy to announce the future collaboration of ESOPRS with theSouth African Society of Oculoplastic Surgeons (SASOPS) as partner societies. SASOPS was formed in 2004 and...
ESOPRS and AIMO partner societies
The Executive Council of ESOPRS is happy to announce the future collaboration of ESOPRS with the Associazione Italiana Medici Oculisti (AIMO) as partner societies. AIMO has about 1000 members, has a...
New ESOPRS Members 2020
We congratulate our new ESOPRS members, who were accepted at the 2020 ESOPRS Virtual Annual General Meeting (AGM) of October 30th. There are fifteen new Full Members, two International Members,...
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...
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...
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...
With great sadness, we announce the passing of our colleague Tony Tyers
It is with great sadness and a heavy heart that we must let you know of the passing of our colleague Tony Tyers. As many of you will know, Tony bore...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Singapore Society of Ophthalmic Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery
To: The President and Fellow members of ESOPRS Greetings for 2020. It gives me great pleasure to formally announce the formation of the Singapore Society of Ophthalmic Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery. An informal...
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...
ESOPRS Winter Meeting 2020
Update 8th November 2019 - Pre programme added. We are organizing from the 23rd to the 25th of January 2020 the ESOPRS WINTER MEETING in Val d 'Isère (France). For this edition,...
Israeli Society of Ophthalmic Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery becomes sister society of ESOPRS
During the last Annual Meeting of ESOPRS in Hamburg it was decided that the Israeli Society of Ophthalmic Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery (ISOPRS) is formally associated with ESOPRS as a...
New ESOPRS Members 2019
We congratulate our new ESOPRS members, who were accepted at the 2019 ESOPRS Annual Meeting in Hamburg. There are seventeen new Full Members, one International Member, seven Associate Members and...
Thank you from Hamburg
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...
Reflections on the 38th Annual Meeting
Reflections on the 38th Annual Meeting of ESOPRS in Hamburg 12-14th September 2019 and a glance at the ESOPRS Winter Meeting in Val d’Isere in January 23-25, 2020 and upcoming...
In memoriam Inna Sasim
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...
New ESOPRS Members 2018
We congratulate our new ESOPRS members, who were accepted at the 2018 ESOPRS Annual Meeting in Bucharest. There are fifteen new Full Members, one International Member, four Associate Members and...
37th Annual Meeting of ESOPRS in Bucharest
The Organizing and Scientific Committees of the 37th Annual Meeting of the European Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (ESOPRS) can look back on a very successful event, organized...
ESOPRS participates in SOE 2019, June 13-16 (Nice, France)
From June 13 till 16, 2019 the biannual meeting of the European Society of Ophthalmology (SOE) will take place in Nice, France. The meeting’s venue will be the Acropolis Congress and...
ESOPRS Members now get forum updates by email
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...
New ESOPRS Members 2017
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...
ESOPRS received recognition as a reciprocal society to APSOPRS
The European Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (ESOPRS) has been recognized as a reciprocal society to the Asia-Pacific Society of Ophthalmic Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery (APSOPRS). In 2013 ESOPRS...
SOE 2017 at CCIB, Barcelona, Spain: 10 – 13 June 2017
ESOPRS is involved in a number of sessions during the SOE 2017 Congress. A stimulating and exciting scientific programme includes a Keynote Lecture from former ESOPRS President Mr Anthony...
New ESOPRS members 2016
We congratulate our new ESOPRS members, who were accepted at the 2016 ESOPRS Annual Meeting in Athens. There are fifteen new Full Members, four International Members, and two Candidate Members.
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Save the date: 14-16 September 2017 ESOPRS Annual Meeting Stockholm
Dear Colleagues and Friends, Next year, in 2017, the local organisers Eva Dafgård Kopp, Elin Bohman and Sven Sahlin welcome you at the 36th Annual Meeting of ESOPRS. Excellent speakers from Europe...
Join young ESOPRS group YESOPRS in Athens 2016
The Committee of ESOPRS strongly supports the initiative of Dan Georgescu who invites all young ESOPRS (candidate) members to join the YESOPRS group in Athens 2016. Dion Paridaens, Secretary ESOPRS
New ESOPRS members 2015
We congratulate our new ESOPRS members, who were accepted at the 2015 ESOPRS Annual Meeting in Brussels. There are nine Full Members, five International Members, seven Candidate Members and six...
New ESOPRS members 2014
We congratulate our new ESOPRS members, who were accepted at the 2014 ESOPRS Annual Meeting in Budapest. There are nine Full Members, one International Member, six Candidate Members and one...
New ESOPRS-Members 2013
We congratulate our new ESOPRS members, who were accepted at the 2013 ESOPRS Annual Meeting in Barcelona. There are three Full Members, one International Member and five Candidate Members. New ESOPRS...
ESOPRS received recognition as a reciprocal society to ASOPRS
The European Society of Ophthlmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery has been recognized as a reciprocal society to the American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. ASOPRS thanks ESOPRS’ for continued...
New ESOPRS-Membership Subscription Fees
ESOPRS membership annual subscription fees have not been increased for a very long time. From 2013 onwards the annual membership fees for Full members and International members will increase from 60.00...
New ESOPRS-Members 2012
The ESOPRS Committee congratulates the new ESOPRS members, who were accepted in 2012! New-members-list-2012.pdf (119 KB)
New ESOPRS website
Dear ESOPRS Members, On behalf of the ESOPRS committee we would like to announce ESOPRS new website www.esoprs.eu . This website has been completely redesigned and now is running – hopefully...
ESOPRS Annual Meeting 2010
The 28th Annual Meeting of ESOPRS was held from 9 - 11 September 2010 in Munich. Almost 450 attendees from more than 50 nations registered for this European meeting. Highlights of...