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As 2024 draws to a close, we reflect with pride on an extraordinary year filled with progress, collaboration, and shared achievements, all made possible by the dedication and passion of our remarkable community. This year, we celebrated the 42nd Annual Meeting of ESOPRS in Rotterdam, which attracted an all-time high number of attendees. This event yielded a strong financial result, which will be reinvested in future educational initiatives for the benefit of our Society and its members. Another significant milestone in 2024 was... read more

To: The President and Fellow members of ESOPRS Greetings 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 for... 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, his... 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

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

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 first... read more

Prof. Dr. Med. Charles Beyer-Machule passed away peacefully on July 9 after a brief illness. He was born in Berthelsdorf, Germany on June 4, 1927 and is survived by Janice, his wife of 38 years. After completing his preliminary degree in Biochemistry at the University of Göttingen, Germany, Prof. Beyer-Machule received a scholarship from the Institute of International Education as a graduate student in biochemistry at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, where he subsequently he obtained his M.D. degree... read more

Obituary Prof. Dr. Holger Busse, 1.1.1945 - 29.8.2020 It is our sad duty to announce the unexpected passing of our friend and colleague Holger Busse last Saturday, 29.8.2020. As many of us will know, Holger was one of the founders of ESOPRS in the early eighties last century. He was the Chair of the University Eye Hospital in Münster for 24 years from 1986 - 2010. In 1998/99, Prof. Busse was President of the German Ophthalmological Society, DOG. In 2001-2003 he... 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

The European Society of Ophthlmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery has been recognized as a reciprocal society to the American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. ASOPRS thanks ESOPRS’ for continued collegial relationship with ASOPRS.   Reciprocal-Society-Certificate-ESOPRS.pdf (64 KB) read more