News & Events

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 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

Recording of "Challenging Cases in Oculofacial Plastic Surgery #5" is now available to view.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSzc87hV0ag  read more

To: The President and Fellow members of ESOPRSGreetings 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

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

The American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery announces that Mark J. Lucarelli, MD, FACS, has assumed the Presidency for 2020.The American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (ASOPRS) was founded in 1969 to establish a qualified body of surgeons with excellence in the highly specialized field of oculofacial plastic surgery. ASOPRS has achieved this through its commitment to the advancement of education, research and the quality of clinical practice in the fields of aesthetic and... 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

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

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

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