39th ESOPRS annual meeting online Sept 17-18, 2021 more info here
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 website and organizes Annual Meetings, which include oculoplastic symposia. ESOPRS looks forward to a fruitful exchange of scientific knowledge between the two societies and welcomes AIMO members to our Annual Meetings.
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... read more
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 brunt of the disease and its complications in Europe. Although the great majority of individuals affected by COVID-19 will have mild to moderate symptoms, the virus is highly... read more
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 and elsewhere will contribute to the Pre-Meeting Course (14 September) and the Annual Meeting (15&16 September), which will be held in the famous Karolinska Institute. In addition, they will organise a very attractive social program around the Meeting. Please have a look at their flyer for further information. Dion Paridaens, MD PhD Secretary... read more
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 Eye Hospital in Münster for 24 years from 1986 – 2010. In 1998/99, Prof. Busse was President of the German Ophthalmological Society, DOG. In 2001-2003... 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
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
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 held its first standalone annual meeting in 2007. Members of SASOPS are ophthalmic surgeons who have a keen interest in and perform oculoplastic surgeries. Fellowship training is not a mandatory requirement to become a member. Some of our members have overseas oculoplastic fellowship training though. We recently endorsed the... read more
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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
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 postpone the anticipated Annual Meeting in September 2021 to 2023 due to the COVID pandemic. We feel that Naples is a splendid venue, which deserves a physical Annual Meeting with many attendees in 2023. We are organizing a 100% virtual Meeting in the fall of this year, 2021. The new venue-scheme of... read more
