News & Events

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 for the 40th ESOPRS Annual Meeting. The excellent scientific program combined with the opportunity to personally share clinical experiences, have lunch and dinner together, dance and share memories made this year’s Annual Meeting a great success. We had over 700 participants from 65 different countries that attended the scientific meeting... read more

 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 Tyers, but also other ESOPRS members and Committee Members will speak at various sessions. It is once again expected that over 3500 delegates from over 100 countries will attend the Congress and promises to be another very successful SOE Congress.For further information please visit: www.soe2017.org 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

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

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 2013 ESOPRS Annual Meeting in Barcelona. There are three Full Members, one International Member and five Candidate Members.New ESOPRS members 2013FULL MEMBERSHIP Prof. Yaroslav Grusha (Russia) Dr. Eszter von Lovenberg, FEBO (Germany) Dr. Simon Addison Woodruff (United Kingdom)INTERNATIONAL MEMBERSHIP Dr. Angelo Tsirbas (Australia)CANDIDATE MEMBERSHIP Dr. Christiane Decker (Germany) Dr. Juliette Delmas France) Dr. Tina Herold (Germany) Dr. Christina Miller (Germany) Dr. Frederic Scholtes (France) read more

Dear Colleagues,CHALLENGING CLINICAL CASESAs 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

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. FULL MEMBERSHIP Dr Carlo Graziani, Torino, Italy Dr Suresh Saygili, Shrewsbury, U.K. Dr Richard Scawn, London, U.K. Dr Luz Gonzalez, Barcelona, Spain Dr Gustavo Savino, Rome, Italy Dr Elin Bohman, Stockholm, Sweden Dr Andrea Sciscio, Rome, Italy Dr Dyonne Hartong, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Dr Alessandra Modugno, Rome, Italy Dr Jelena Mandic, Zagreb, Croatia Dr Ralf Ungerechts, Darmstadt, Germany Dr Guy Missotten, Louvain,... read more

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, FACS, was undoubtedly among the very best French lacrimal surgeons we have known.First resident, in the eighties, at Paris University Hospital during five years, he then attended a four-year fellowship at the Hôtel-Dieu under the leadership of the well-known Professor Yves POULIQUEN, Member of the Académie française.During this time,... read more

An extraordinary Full Members Meeting (online) was scheduled to be held on January 15th on 09.30 CET.UPDATE: 6th December 2021The 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