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14 DAYS TO GO to Submit your abstract for SOE 2019!

Posted on 03rd January 2019 in Society News, YO News

Submit your abstract now for SOE2019 ! Present your work to an international delegation of experts and peers. Abstracts enable you to share your professional ophthalmic research and experiences to an engaged audience. With Plans well underway for our Scientific Programme offering a plethora of sessions from some of the best lecturers and teachers in

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Global Ophthalmology Awards Program (GOAP)

Posted on 18th December 2018 in Society News, YO News

The Global Ophthalmology Awards Program (GOAP) – a unique initiative established by Bayer in 2012 to support research projects that advance scientific understanding of retinal diseases. To date, 70 research grants, totaling US$3.5million, have been awarded to support a range of innovative ophthalmology research projects, including 12 grants in 2018. Your opportunity to receive a

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KEYNOTE Lecture update Jonathan C. Horton MD PhD

Posted on 05th December 2018 in Society News, YO News

Overview by – Jonathan C. Horton MD PhD, on his Keynote lecture ‘Vascular Supply of Human Striate Cortex Explains Visual Field Defects from Embolic Stroke’ to take place at SOE 2019 on 16/06/2019 @ 11:45 – 12:30 What accounts for the patterns of visual field loss present in patients after occipital stroke?  The cerebral cortex is

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Observership Report from Lydia Hankovska, Slovakia at Moorfields Eye Hospital, London

Posted on 04th December 2018 in Society News, SOE Grant Placement Reports, YO News

My name is Lydia Hankovska. I am the 4th year resident of the ophthalmology at Slovak Medical University in Bratislava, Slovakia. First of all, I would like to express my immense appreciation to the European Society of Ophthalmology. The Educational Grant for Ophthalmologists-in-training gave me a chance to broaden my knowledge in the area of ophthalmology

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Observership report from Izabela Sucharska, Poland, at Instituto de Microcirurgia Ocular in Barcelona, Spain

Posted on 27th November 2018 in Society News, SOE Grant Placement Reports, YO News

I have spent 4 weeks as an observer in Instituto de Microcirurgia Ocular in Barcelona, Spain from 1st-26th of October 2018. Due to Spanish laws, as an observer I could not participate in the patient’s examination. So, during my stay there I was spending all the time in the operating theatre where I could have

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