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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

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

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

On the 5th of February the digital ESOPRS/ASOPRS symposium on ’Nuances in Periocular Reconstruction’ was held. The two hour interactive Meeting was well attended by more than 400 attendees from the US, Europa and other parts of the world. Regretfully, due to technical reasons not all who had wanted to register for the Meeting were able to. The recorded symposium is available here for ESOPRS members.The organizers were Dr Richard Allen, Dr Eva Dafgard Kopp, Dr Francesco Quaranta Leoni,... read more

Dear Colleagues,CHALLENGING CLINICAL CASESAs we all know, the COVID-19 pandemic has caused an unprecedented public health challenge, and we were forced to postpone our Annual Meeting a full year. Hopefully we will physically meet again in Naples in September 2021.In the meantime, to serve our members and those interested in our teaching activities, we held several webinars on various topics relating to challenging cases in Oculoplastics, Lacrimal and Orbital Surgery: a live ESOPRS Academy. We will continue in 2021... read more

During the last Annual Meeting of ESOPRS in Hamburg it was decided that the Israeli Society of Ophthalmic Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery (ISOPRS) is formally associated with ESOPRS as a sister society. ESOPRS has many active international members from Israel and the Councils of both societies were keen to formally collaborate in scientific events in the future.ESOPRS has collaborations with larger societies representing multiple nations (Asian Pacific Society of Ophthalmic Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery APSOPRS) or large united nations... 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

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

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

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