Awards

Prof. Farhad Hafezi, Medical Director of the ELZA Institute in Zurich, Switzerland, had the honor of delivering the prestigious Whitney G Sampson lecture on Sunday, October 13th, 2019 at the annual conference of American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) in San Francisco, California.
The annual meeting of the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons (ESCRS) was held in Paris between 14–18 September 2019, and ELZA’s surgeons and researchers presented a record 21 presentations during the congress – so what did ELZA at ESCRS manage to achieve? Our team presented at 8 free paper presentations and a further 8 instructional courses, as well as three moderated poster sessions, two e-posters (as well as instructing in 1 wet lab too).
Dr. Emilio Torres-Netto’s moderated poster presentation “Stromal bed smoothness after excimer laser surface ablation as a key element for the expression of inflammatory genes”, which won the Best Poster Presentation Prize in the Refractive Surgery Section. Over 1000 posters were submitted to ESCRS; Torres-Netto et al.’s was considered to be the best.
The annual meeting of the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons (ESCRS) was held in Paris between 14–18 September 2019, and ELZA’s surgeons and researchers presented a record 21 presentations during the congress – so what did ELZA at ESCRS manage to achieve? Our team presented at 8 free paper presentations and a further 8 instructional courses, as well as three moderated poster sessions, two e-posters (as well as instructing in 1 wet lab too).
For the second year in a row, Dion Paridaens gave a series of lectures at the 2019 ESASO Course on Orbital, Lacrimal & Oculoplastic Surgery Course in Lugano, Switzerland (21–25 January, 2019).
Being appointed FARVO – Fellow of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology – is a big deal for me. Let me tell you why…
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