News & Events

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  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

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

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 our international colleagues and partners at the World Ophthalmology Congress (WOC2020) in Cape Town 26–29 June, is no longer possible. While we are all disappointed that our face-to-face meeting is cancelled, the ICO remains devoted to bringing together the world's ophthalmologists to learn the latest from one another, and to advance... 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

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 Associate Members.FULL MEMBERSHIPDr. Eva Ayala, Barcelona, Spain Dr. Hans Olav Ueland, Bergen, Norway Dr. Marco Sales-Sanz, Madrid, Spain Dr. Renata Migliardi, Torino, Italy Dr. Zafer Onaran, Kirikkale, Turkey Dr. Meghana A. Varde, Hannover, Germany Dr. Isabelle Larré, Reims, France Dr Guiseppe Vadala, Ivrea, Italy Dr Kirsten Schebitz-Walter, Munich, GermanyINTERNATIONAL MEMBERSHIPDr. Albert Wu, New York, U.S.A. Dr. Mohsen B.... 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

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 how we manage our patients and our practices. ESOPRS has created a dedicated discussion forum to share experiences; we will have much to learn from each other with different countries being in different phases of the pandemic surge. All ESOPRS members, will have access to this messaging area. This... 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

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 Associate Member.FULL MEMBERSHIPDr. Paul Stephen Cannon, MD/ United Kingdom Dr. Eva Dafgard-Kopp, MD/ Sweden Dr. Juliette Delmas, MD/ France Dr. George Kalantzis, MD/ United Kingdom Dr. Ioannis Kyprianou MBChB, MRCOphth, FRCSEd(Ophth)/ Cyprus Dr. Andre Litwin, MD/ United Kingdom Dr. Maria-Christina Miller/ Germany Dr. Vikesh Patel, MBChB, FRCSEd(Ophth)/ United Kingdom Dr. Didem Serin/ TurkeyINTERNATIONAL MEMBERSHIPDr. Alan McNab/ AustraliaCANDIDATE... read more