SOE Lecturer

SOE National Lectures are given at National Society meetings.  Since 2005 SOE Lectures have been presented at many European Ophthalmological Society National meeting. The Lecturers are nominated by their National Society and are promising young Clinicians or Researchers under the age of 45.

Lectures given in 2026

Iva Dimitrova
SOE 2026 Lecturer
Bulgaria
Title of lecture: DME- OCT biomarkers predicting visual outcomes

Alexander Kai Thomsen
SOE 2026 Lecturer
Denmark
Title of lecture: Development of Targeted Therapy to Patients with Age-Related Macular Degeneration

Moritz Lindner
SOE 2026 Lecturer
Germany
Title of lecture: Optogenetics for Restoring Vision: From Mouse Models to the Patient Perspective

Tibor Rák
SOE 2026 Lecturer
Hungary
Title of lecture: Neuroprotection-the next stage of the glaucoma management

Ann O’Connell
SOE 2026 Lecturer
Ireland
Title of lecture: Medical Retina: a three-pronged  approach

Lita Meidropa
SOE 2026 Lecturer
Latvia
Title of lecture: Visual Disability in Latvia: What Do the Last 5 Years of Data Show?

Thea Melsen Sudmann
SOE 2026 Lecturer
Norway
Title of lecture: Visual fields and driver's licenses: paragraphs, perimetry and politics

Tahm Spitznagel
SOE 2026 Lecturer
Switzerland
Title of lecture: How Can We Better Understand the Patient Perspective in Geographic Atrophy?

Nilüfer Yeşilırmak
SOE 2026 Lecturer
Turkey
Title of lecture: Through the eye into the brain

Yevhenii Chumakov
SOE 2026 Lecturer
Ukraine
Title of lecture: Electrothermoadhesion for retinopexy using a small-gauge welding probe: An experimental study