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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

The 3rd Challenging case in Oculofacial plastic surgery Meeting Theme: Hot Points in Hot Orbit February 6th, 2021 More info here https://www.esoprs.eu/news/event/joint-apsoprs-esoprs-meeting/ Register here https://iravo.org/regmeeting.aspx read more

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

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 are sad to announce the sudden loss of two or our most senior and revered lacrimal surgeons, Professor Jeffrey Jay Hurwitz (Canada) and Professor Sergey Shkolnick (Russia). Jeffrey Jay Hurwitz Professor Hurwitz, International Society of Dacryology and Dry Eye (ISD-DE) Councillor, passed away on 4th February 2022 at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, Canada, where he had been the Ophthalmologist-in-Chief for over three decades. He was the author of one of the original books on Lacrimal Surgery which has survived... read more

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 Ophthlmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery has been recognized as a reciprocal society to the American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. ASOPRS thanks ESOPRS’ for continued collegial relationship with ASOPRS.   Reciprocal-Society-Certificate-ESOPRS.pdf (64 KB) read more

The Organizing and Scientific Committees of the 37th Annual Meeting of the European Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (ESOPRS) can look back on a very successful event, organized –for the first time in the history of ESOPRS - in Bucharest. Focusing on functional and cosmetic (minimally invasive and surgical) oculo-facial topics, the multidisciplinary program reflected the sustained work of internationally renowned and distinguished scientists and clinicians from 42 countries. The keynote and Mustarde lectures, together with the scientific sessions, e-posters and video presentations... 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