Mark Hillen

Scleral-Lens-Educational-Society logo and a photo of Leonard Kollross

Léonard Kollros Attains Prestigious FSLS Distinction

Explore the journey of ELZA Institute’s Lead Optometrist, Léonard Kollros, MSc, in earning the distinguished Fellow of the Scleral Lens Education Society (FSLS) title, underscoring his expertise in managing keratoconus with scleral lenses.

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Farhad Hafezi in San Francisco

ELZA at AAO 2023, San Franscisco

Sunday, September 10th, 2023, continued the trend of informative presentations at the ESCRS 2023 conference in Vienna. Here’s a straightforward rundown of the day’s events:

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Featured Image CROCS 2023 with CROCS and ELZA logo

CROCS 2023 – CXL presentations and keratoconus screening

During the Croatian Organisation of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (CROCS) 2023 annual meeting held in Zadar, Croatia, on 12th and 13th October, Prof. Farhad Hafezi lectured on “CXL in 2023” and he and ELZA’s CEO, Nikki Hafezi, performed Croatia’s largest keratoconus in Down Syndrome screening event to date.

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Innovation

Ophthalmic Education’s Virtual Shift

The pandemic’s onset saw a significant shift from traditional learning methods to online platforms. As the article notes, “The COVID-19 pandemic catapulted the world’s population into Zoom meetings, virtual congresses, live webinars…

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ELZA’s Nan-Ji Lu wins VSY Ophthalmology Rising Star 2023 Award

The VSY Biotechnology Ophthalmology Star Awards (OSA) for 2023 were announced at the Satellite Symposium during the ESCRS conference in Vienna. The awards recognize contributions to the field of ophthalmology, specifically research and clinical studies that have advanced understanding and treatment of eye diseases. This year, Dr. Nan-ji Lu from the ELZA Institute in Zurich received the third-place award for her clinical study titled “A New Keratoconus Staging System Based on OCT.” Dr. Lu’s research focuses on a new system for staging keratoconus, a condition affecting the cornea, and has implications for its diagnosis and treatment.

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