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We congratulate our new ESOPRS members, who were accepted at the 2021 ESOPRS Virtual Annual General Meeting (AGM) of October 9th, 2021. There are 11 new Full Members, 1 International Members, 6 Associate Members and 2 Candidate Members, giving a total of 20 new members. New Full members 2021 Bazil Stoica , Spain Johanna V. Berggren , Sweden Josefine Bunke , Sweden Mehmet Serhat Mangan , Turkey Natasa Mihailovic , Germany Nina Jovanovic , Bosnia & Herzegovina Rob van der Veen , Spain Sarju Athwal , United Kingdom Sertaç Argun... 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

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

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

To increase the communication between members on the forum, each subscribed member now gets an email when new posts are added to the “All Case Discussions” forum. You can turn off the email notification from the forum.Click on the “All Case Discussions” to enter the specific forumIf you are “Subscribed” to get email notification it will have a yellow box to allow you to “Unsubscribe” if you wish.If you are not subscribed, you can click “Subscribe to this forum”... 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

Last week our Treasurer David Verity has signed the contract with the professional congress organizer in Nice. Local organisers will be Jacques Lagier and Olivier Galatoire, assisted by Arnaud Martel and Jerome Delas. 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 ESOPRS Colleagues,A message of support from your ANZSOPS colleaguesIn 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

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