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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 ...

Are we ready to be diagnosed by AI doctors?

The WAEH and Artificial Intelligence - Possibilities and Pitfalls Read our white paper about Artificial Intelligence – WAEH Within the next decade artificial intelligence (AI) and 'big data' will ...

Call for Abstracts Open NOW!

From the 6th of June till the 9th of June 2018 the 12th Annual Meeting of the WAEH will be hosted by the Kellogg Eye Center in Ann Arbor, USA. On Saturday June 9 there will be a special track for nu ...

Application of Non-Technical Skills (Human Factor) Principles
in the Operating Theatre


By Loh Huey Peng, Assistant Director, Nursing, Operating Theatre, Singapore National Eye Centre (SNEC)My interest in Non-Technical Skills (NTS), or human factors, began when I visited The Rotterdam Ey ...

Newsletter September 2017

  Three New Full Members The board of the WAEH wants to wish the following eye hos ...

Three New Members of the WAEH

The board of the WAEH wants to wish the following eye hospitals a warm welcome: The Beijing TONGREN Eye Hospital from China Niteroi Eye Hospital from Brasil Xi'an Eye Hospital from China The W ...

Media release: Moorfields CEO appointed chairman of World Association of Eye Hospitals

David Probert, chief executive at Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in London, has been appointed chairman of the World Association of Eye Hospitals (WAEH), the global association of over 4 ...