SOE Medal Presentations took place at the SOE 2023 Opening Ceremony on Thursday 15th June 2023 at the Prague Congress Centre, Czech Republic. The Helmholtz Medal, founded in 1968 is awarded every four years to the European ophthalmologist who has done much for the Society and for ophthalmology. Matteo Piovella, MD, Italy, Global Center for
In my brief experience at Moorfields Eye Hospital I can say it has been an honour and privilege to attend one of the oldest eye hospitals in the world with traditions in evidence based medicine in ophthalmology. I would personally like to thank Dr. Daniel Gore, Dr. Sajjad Ahmad, Dr Jennifer Hind and Dr.
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,
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
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,
