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 the meeting were two invited Guest lectures:
Guest Lecture I on Friday, September 8 at 13.30
Prof. Jack Rootmann, M.D., F.R.C.S.(C), Diplomate A.A.O., Vancouver
“Pearls and Pitfalls in Orbital Surgery –
37 Years of Experience”
Guest Lecture II
Dr. Petros Perros, M.D., MB, BS, Newcastle
“Thyroidology for Ophthalmic Plastic Surgeons”
The Mustarde-Lecture was given by Anthony Tyers from Salisbury on “Recent Advances and Current Management in Blepharophimosis (BPES) – Syndrome”.
The local organizer, Christoph Hintschich, thanks all attendees for their active participation at this meeting, the exhibitors and sponsors for their active support and all staff members and members of the organizing company for their excellent work and great commitment!
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, four Associate Members and two Candidate Members, giving a total of 23 new members.
New Full members 2020
Sajid Ataullah, Manchester, United Kingdom
Claire Daniel, London, United Kingdom
Martin Emesz, Zell am See, Austria
Pierre Escalas, Saint Herblain, France
Korhan Fazil, Istanbul, Turkey
Sri Gore, London, United Kingdom
Tarang Gupta, London, England
Gregor Hawlina, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Gijsbert Hötte, Rotterdam,... read more
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, your families, friends and colleagues will already have been affected by these events. To those who have lost loved ones or colleagues, we extend our most heartfelt... read more
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 was recognized as a reciprocal society to the American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.
APSOPRS thanks ESOPRS for continued collegial relationship with APSOPRS.
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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 progressive illness over the past few years with characteristic strength, resilience, and commitment both to his family and his work. He was a great teacher, a towering authority in ophthalmology, and a true friend to us all.
Amongst his many contributions, Tony will be remembered for his colour atlas... 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
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
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.
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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 organization of like-minded Oculoplastic Surgeons of Singapore since 2013, it was officially registered as a Society in 2017 with Dr Choo Chai Teck, Singapore National Eye Centre elected as the Founding President.
SSOPRS members are Fellowship-trained Oculoplastic Surgeons from academic institutions and private practices in Singapore who have voluntarily joined... 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
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 the US, Europa and other parts of the world. Regretfully, due to technical reasons not all who had wanted to register for the Meeting were able to. The recorded symposium is available here for ESOPRS members.The organizers were Dr Richard Allen, Dr Eva Dafgard Kopp, Dr Francesco Quaranta Leoni,... read more
