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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 his childhood in North Wales. Learning was very much fostered in the family environment, his father being headmaster at a local school, and JW completed his grammar school years with award of the prestigious County Medical Scholarship. He attended Liverpool Medical School, where he graduated MB ChB in 1956,... read more

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 six Candidate Members, giving a total of 31 new members. FULL MEMBERSHIP Adriaan Coumou, Netherlands Anja Eckstein, Germany Edgard Farah, France Elizabeth Hawkes, United Kingdom John Bladen, United Kingdom Marta Calsina, Spain Matthew Edmunds, United Kingdom Matthias Keserü, Germany Milena Sredkova, Bulgaria Nick Koutroumanos, United Kingdom Gamze Ozturk Karabulut, Turkey Roberto Secondi, Spain Ronald de Keizer, Netherlands Theodora Tsirouki, Greece Miroslav Knezevic, Serbia Ilke Bahceci Simsek,... read more

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 sister society. ESOPRS has many active international members from Israel and the Councils of both societies were keen to formally collaborate in scientific events in the future.ESOPRS has collaborations with larger societies representing multiple nations (Asian Pacific Society of Ophthalmic Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery APSOPRS) or large united nations... 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... read more

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 events Over 700 colleagues from 60 countries attended the 38th Annual Meeting of ESOPRS in Hamburg. The feedback by various attendees was generally very positive, not only regarding the scientific sessions and the level of the various presentations, but also the venue and social activities. The keynote and Mustarde lectures... read more

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, the ESOPRS Winter Meeting will be joint to the French REGARDS CROISES meeting.(more…) 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... read more

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 ten Candidate Members. FULL MEMBERSHIP Angelika Klein-Theyer Anna March, Spain Christine Eenhorst, Netherlands Daliborka Miletic, Croatia Malin Malmsjo Adeela Malik Parinaz Shams, United Kingdom Rachna Murthy, United Kingdom Rebecca Ford Stijn Genders, Netherlands Juan Carlos Sanchez Espana Guilherme Castela, Portugal Nikhil Carlo Cascone Zornitsa Zlatarova, Bulgaria Aylin Garip Kuebler, Germany Sylvia Green, Germany INTERNATIONAL MEMBERSHIP Ivana Cardoso Pereira, Brazil ASSOCIATE MEMBERSHIP Carlos Ramos Andres Lozano Grégory Destruhaut, France Jae Woo Jang CANDIDATE MEMBERSHIP Huw Edward Oliphant, United Kingdom Ivan Tanev, Bulgaria Rob van der Veen, Netherlands Simon Dulz, Germany Gijsbert Hotte Vasily Yartsev, Russia Annemarie Klingenstein, Germany Sertaç... read more

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 support of over 30 major Oculoplastic societies, let us seize the opportunity to present your case-based discussions with experts alongside the traditional conference format.The deadline for submissions of abstracts is on January 25, 2023.Each submitter for E-videos and photographs must provide a link to the file when submitting the... read more

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 without start-up problems. ESOPRS website does have a new appearance, but also a new content. A number of new features have been included, which we hope make this site more interesting for members and patients. These features include topics such as:- Find Members Members now can be searched for more easily... read more