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 eye... 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 contagious... 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 Netherlands,... 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 Argun... read more
An extraordinary Full Members Meeting (online) was scheduled to be held on January 15th on 09.30 CET.
UPDATE: 6th December 2021
The Council has just agreed to postpone the extraordinary AGM meeting that was going to be scheduled for January 15th, until further notice due to work in progress regarding the new CIO of ESOPRS and the ESOPRS book project.
We will update this post when the date for the extraordinary AGM has been agreed. read more
Join the more than 1,200 ophthalmologists from 84 countries who have been granted ICO Fellowships. The ICO Fellowships program supports promising young ophthalmologists from low resource countries in improving their practical skills and broadening their knowledge of ophthalmology.
Apply for three-month, six-month or one-year opportunities with top host organizations around the world. Once your fellowship is complete, you’ll take your learnings and experiences back to your home country to enhance vital programs that preserve vision and... 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 sympathy... 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 were... read more
In September this year we had the pleasure of meeting friends and colleagues in the ancient setting of Naples, during our 41st Annual Meeting of ESOPRS. The host, Diego Strianese had been a fellow to Prof Jack Rootman in Vancouver, Canada more than 20 years earlier and had invited his mentor to give a keynote during his Meeting. A tribute to his hero, who he owed so much. As Prof Rootman could not make it to Naples, he gave a... read more