Category: Society News

ICO Annual Conference – Killarney

Posted on 31st May 2023 in Society News

The ICO Annual Conference in Killarney was a great success last week. Over 200 ophthalmologists gathered for the three-day scientific conference which was held at The Great Southern, Killarney (22nd – 24th May) to hear the latest clinical developments in the specialty from eye experts at home and abroad. Dr Geraldine Comer, Consultant Medical Ophthalmologist,

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Eva Kos, Croatia, Educational Observership Grant report from Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Pisa, Italy

Posted on 19th May 2023 in Society News, SOE Grant Placement Reports

Thanks to SOE Educational Grant I had the opportunity to spend nearly one month in Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Pisana, U.O. Oculistica Universitaria, Pisa, Italy. More than 5,000 surgeries in the filed of anterior segment (cataract, glaucoma, corneal transplant surgery) as well as the posterior segment are performed in this unit every year. The department is very

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Eszter Szalai, Hungary observership report from Maastricht University, Dept. of Ophthalmology, The Netherlands

Posted on 21st April 2023 in Society News, SOE Grant Placement Reports

My recent SOE Educational Grant Observership traveling to the University of Maastricht, Department of Ophthalmology procted by Professor Rudy Nuijts was extremely nice and helpful. This was delayed nearly three years because of COVID but the time was very well spent at the Institution. I was able to observe corneal clinic and different corneal surgeries,

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SOE 2023 Medal Awards

Posted on 08th March 2023 in Society News

SOE are delighted to announce that the following awards will be presented at the SOE 2023 Opening Ceremony on Thursday 15th June 2023 at the Prague Congress Centre, Czech Republic. Stefan Seregard, M.D., PH.D., Professor of Ophthalmology, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden will be awarded the Henkes Medal. The Henkes Medal awarded for Leadership in Ophthalmology, is

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