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Board meeting agenda

  • 30 June 2022
  • Time: 14.00 Central European Summer Time

Attendees

  • Chair of the WAEH:
    • Cathy Kowalewski, Wilmer Eye Institute – Johns Hopkins Hospital, USA
  • Martin Kuper, Moorfields Eye Hospital, United Kingdom
  • Dr. Nelson, Kellogg Eye Center, USA
  • Dato Kulasegaran, Tun Hussein On National Eye Hospital, Malaysia
  • Igor Schillevoort, The Rotterdam Eye Hospital, The Netherlands
  • Abdulaziz AlRajhi, King Khaled Eye Specialist Hospital, Riyaad
  • Brendon Gardner, Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, Australia
  • Tjahjono, Jakarta Eye Center, Jakarta, Indonesia
  • Sten Kjellström, St. Erik Eye Hospital, Stockholm
  • Li Li, Aier Eye Hospital Group, China
  • Charity Wai, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore
  • Rodrigo Hasegawa, Hoftalon Eye Hospital, Brasil
  • Wim Oosterom – external WAEH advisor to the board

Organized by

  • Maaike van Zuilen, WAEH

Agenda

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1. Welcome
Cathy Kowalewski
  • We will start with an update about the WAEH project Medical Outcomes – Keratoconus
2. WAEH Annual Meeting
Maaike van Zuilen
3. Member acquisition
Maaike van Zuilen
  • Incoming application:
  • Lusaka Eye Hospital – Zambia, Africa – Sponsored member

  • WAEH / MVZ In contact with:
    • Takashi Hida, MD PhD
    • Labib Tazone Utshab, coordinator
      • Prime Bank Eye Hospital (an initiative of Prime Bank Foundation) – Bangladesh
    • Jaime Lozano Alcázar, Director Médico.
      • Fundación Hospital de Nuestra Señora de la Luz, Mexico
        • Eye Health Africa – African Eye Hospital Association
        • Dr. Fatehmah Alshamlan – Saudi Arabia (4 months time contact again)
        • Techlaser – Brasil56 eyehospitals
4. WAEH Projects
Maaike van Zuilen
  • Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital will start with the new waeh project Patient Eye Drop Instillation Education Package: Patient Eye Drop Instillation Education Package
    • The Education Package will be launched during World Sight Day 2022
5. Update action points
Maaike van Zuilen
  • Start Communities of Practice:

    • Communities of Practice for Nurses

      • Date: Thursday June 9
      • Whats app group started – need extra ambassadors from eyehospitals

    • Communities of Practice for Global Communications

      • Date: July 7
      • 12.00PM NOON CEST
      • Meet via Zoom
6. To be reviewed
7. Dates 2022
  • Board meeting dates of the board meetings in 2022
  • 23 February: 13.00 CET/7am EST  
  • 16 May:  14.00 CET/8am EST
  • 30 June: 14.00 CET/8am EST
  • 18 August: 14.00 CEST – WAEH annual meeting decision
  • Tuesday October 4 – WAEH Annual Meeting
    • Baltimore: WAEH Board meeting
  • Friday October 7 – WAEH Annual Meeting
    • Baltimore / SF?: WAEH Board meeting?? – to be decided
  • 7 Dec:  13.00 CET/7am EST