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

ESOPRS is proud to provide partnership support to the first on-line International Symposium on Wartime Ophthalmic Trauma, organised by ASOPRS. The meeting is on May 7, 2022, with costs generously covered by ASOPRS. It will be a 2-hour session starting at 5pm CEST (8am PST / 4pm BST / 5pm CEST / IST 2030). More info here 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

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 2022 ESOPRS Virtual Annual General Meeting (AGM) of September 16th, 2022. There are 16 new Full Members, 4 International Members, 16 Associate Members and 11 Candidate Members, giving a total of 47 new members. New Full members 2022 Camille Yvon, East Grinstead, United Kingdom, FULL MEMBERSHIP Robert Peden, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, FULL MEMBERSHIP Ioana Pereni, Exeter, United Kingdom, FULL MEMBERSHIP Christopher van Issum, Le Grand-Saconnex, Switzerland, FULL MEMBERSHIP Matej Beltram, Ljubljana, Slovenia, FULL MEMBERSHIP Ana Fakin, Ljubljana,... 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

The 28th Annual Meeting of ESOPRS was held from 9 - 11 September 2010 in Munich. Almost 450 attendees from more than 50 nations registered for this European meeting. Highlights of the meeting were two invited Guest lectures: Guest Lecture I on Friday, September 8 at 13.30 Prof. Jack Rootmann, M.D., F.R.C.S.(C), Diplomate A.A.O., Vancouver “Pearls and Pitfalls in Orbital Surgery – 37 Years of Experience” Guest Lecture II Dr. Petros Perros, M.D., MB, BS, Newcastle “Thyroidology for Ophthalmic Plastic Surgeons” The Mustarde-Lecture was given by Anthony Tyers... read more

To promote and stimulate new members there will be an e-poster session during the 2021 ESOPRS meeting. You are invited to submit abstracts in any of the scientific topics:  Eyelid, orbit, lacrimal, aesthetics or socket. Abstracts must be original, written in English and not previously presented or published prior the meeting.  Deadline for submission is 31st July 2021. The authors will be informed of the decision on acceptance of their abstracts by the Mid of August. Please submit your abstracts here https://www.esoprs.eu/meeting/abstracts/ Full... 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 2013 FULL 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