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Management Training and Systems Development for Eye Hospital Administrators/Managers

August 16 - Sep 12, 2018 Beyond clinical excellence, the effectiveness of a hospital depends largely on the establishment of good administrative systems and the institution of sound management princi ...

Patients regain sight after being first to receive retinal tissue engineered from stem cells

Successful trial on patients using new stem cell based treatment for wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Results from a clinical study suggest the treatment is safe and effective. The stud ...

Certificate Course by our member Aravind Eye Care System

Certificate Course on 'Community outreach & Social Marketing of Eye Care Services'June 15th - July 05th 2018The course is designed to enhance the knowledge and skills for developing capacity to pl ...

Welcome New Full Member King Khaled Specialist Hospital

The board of the WAEH wants to wish the King Khaled Specialist Hospital a warm welcome as our newest full member. ...

Newsletter February 2018

Update WAEH 2018 speakers! Who will be our key note speakers of the 12th annual meeting of the World Association of Eye Hospital hosted by the Kellogg Eye Center in co-creation with the WAEH? Ca ...

Moorfields appoints new medical director

Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has appointed Nick Strouthidis to the post of medical director. Currently a consultant ophthalmologist in Moorfields’ glaucoma service and the glaucoma s ...

Board Election Process WAEH 2018

Is your hospital a full member of the WAEH and are you the person representing your hospital in the WAEH network? If so, you can apply to become a board member of the WAEH. This year two board member ...

New role to strengthen eye health education at Moorfields and UCL

Moorfields Eye Hospital and its research partner the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology have appointed their first joint education lead. The new role will strengthen training and education opportunitie ...

Announcement of the 6th round of the Asia Cornea Society – Santen Asia Educational Grant

- Announcement via one of our members - The Asia Cornea Society – Santen Asia Educational Grant will provide funding support to young, aspiring corneal clinicians or corneal clinician scientistsfor ...

Former-astronaut confirmed speaker - DEADLINE!!! CALL for ABSTRACTS

 Former-astronaut confirmed speaker - DEADLINE!!! CALL for ABSTRACTS   Jim Bagian will be one of our keynotes. Jim Bagian is a former-astronaut: he logged 337 hours of space-flight, ov ...

Former-astronaut Jim Bagian keynote lecturer 2018 meeting

Jim Bagian will be one of our keynotes. Jim Bagian is a former-astronaut: he logged 337 hours of space-flight, over two missions, STS-29 (in 1989) and STS-40 (in 1991). After leaving NASA in 1995, Bag ...

Firework-related Eye Injuries Study Questionnaire

January 2018Dear ICO Member Society Leaders,The ICO is pleased to send our Member societies a very important study questionnaire that is especially relevant following New Year festivities. The Firew ...