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A new global data project on human tissue use in corneal transplantation

February 11, 2019
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Media Release: 11th February 2019 The Global Alliance of Eye Bank Associations (GAEBA) announces a long-term project to capture annual data on corneal transplants, corneal donations and tissue movement across countries – with other data sets potentially to follow. “Right now, we do not have...

Membership fee lowered down

January 29, 2019
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During the annual meeting the member meeting decided upon a lower membership fee for the members of the WAEH. The scheme of 2018 and beforeFull members paid € 6.000,-and a 50% reduction in the first 2 years. For this budget the members were allowed to bring 5 participants to the global...

My experience training nurses to restore sight in Vietnam

October 29, 2018
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Hello, My name is Angeline and I’m a Senior Staff Nurse at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London. I’m also a medical volunteer with Orbis. In the past year I’ve helped train nurses in Cameroon, Bangladesh and Vietnam and seen first-hand just how important this work is. I’m emailing to tell you a...

Professors James Bainbridge and Robin Ali given top award for gene therapy breakthrough

October 29, 2018
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Two Moorfields staff, Professor James Bainbridge and Professor Robin Ali have recently been named among six international winners of the largest prize in vision research, the 2018 António Champalimaud Vision Award, worth €1 million. The team won the award for their work in developing a...

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AS GOOD AS TOP EXPERTS AT DETECTING EYE DISEASES

October 29, 2018
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Ground-breaking research by Moorfields Eye Hospital, DeepMind Health and UCL uses artificial intelligence (AI) to help identify potentially blinding eye diseases.AI system can recommend the correct referral decision for over 50 eye diseases with 94% accuracy – matching world-leading eye experts.System...

New Member of the WAEH

October 29, 2018
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The board of the WAEH wants to wish the Kisii Eye Hospital from Kenya a warm welcome. The World Association of Eye Hospitals is a worldwide network of eye hospitals and is happy to welcome the Kisii Eye Center as our very first sponsored member. All WAEH members are “centres of excellence”...

New Member of the WAEH

October 29, 2018
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The board of the WAEH wants to wish the Aier Eye Hospital Group from China a warm welcome. The World Association of Eye Hospitals is a worldwide network of eye hospitals and is happy to welcome the Aier Eye Hospital Group as full member. All WAEH members are “centres of excellence”...

Call for Application: Asia Cornea Society – Santen Asia Educational Grant

October 29, 2018
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Dear Doctor, We are proud to announce the 7th round of the Asia Cornea Society – Santen Asia Educational Grantwhich will provide funding support to young, aspiring corneal clinicians or corneal clinician scientistsfor regional corneal observership attachment at top ophthalmic institutions in Asia...

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

July 29, 2018
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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 study is a major milestone for the London Project to Cure Blindness and could lead to an ‘off-the-shelf’ treatment...

Certificate Course by our member Aravind Eye Care System

July 29, 2018
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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 plan and manage the outreach programmes in a most effective and efficient...

Macular degeneration patients regain sight with stem cell implants

April 29, 2018
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Two patients with macular degeneration regained reading vision after receiving stem cells implanted with a new technique, according to researchers. Professor Lyndon da Cruz from Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and his colleagues engineered a patch of retinal pigment epithelium...

Welcome New Full Member King Khaled Specialist Hospital

February 28, 2018
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The board of the WAEH wants to wish the King Khaled Specialist Hospital a warm welcome as our newest full member.

Newsletter February 2018

February 28, 2018
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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? Carrie MortonMcity Deputy DirectorUniversity of MichiganMcity: Transforming the Future of...

Moorfields appoints new medical director

January 29, 2018
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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 service director, Nick has worked for the Trust since 2002. Nick began his career at Moorfields...

Board Election Process WAEH 2018

January 29, 2018
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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 members from the current board will step down: David Probert, Moorfields Eye Hospital, UKDato Kulasegaran,...

New role to strengthen eye health education at Moorfields and UCL

January 29, 2018
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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 opportunities for eye health professionals in the UK and abroad. Professor Nora Ann Colton will take up the...

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

January 29, 2018
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– 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 regional corneal observership attachment at top ophthalmic institutions in Asia....

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

January 29, 2018
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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, over two missions, STS-29 (in 1989) and STS-40 (in 1991). After leaving NASA in 1995, Bagian was...

Former-astronaut Jim Bagian keynote lecturer 2018 meeting

January 29, 2018
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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, Bagian was elected as a member of both the National Academy of Engineering and of the Institute...

Firework-related Eye Injuries Study Questionnaire

January 29, 2018
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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 Firework-related Eye Injuries Study was initially instigated by the Netherlands Ophthalmological...

Are we ready to be diagnosed by AI doctors?

October 29, 2017
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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 change the face of medicine. Doctors and patients will be confronted with...

Call for Abstracts Open NOW!

October 29, 2017
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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 nurses and techs! June 11, we will organize a special visit to one of our other US members. The...

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

October 29, 2017
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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 Eye Hospital in Netherlands for the inaugural World Association of Eye Hospital (WAEH) meeting back...

Three New Members of the WAEH

October 29, 2017
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The board of the WAEH wants to wish the following eye hospitals a warm welcome: The Beijing TONGREN Eye Hospital from ChinaNiteroi Eye Hospital from BrasilXi’an Eye Hospital from China The World Association of Eye Hospitals is a worldwide network of eye hospitals and is happy to...

11th annual meeting – 2017

October 29, 2017
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We are delighted to welcome you in China to the 11th WAEH Annual Meeting! The 11th annual meeting of the WAEH will be hosted by the Tianjin Medical University Eye Hospital from Tianjin, China from June 14 till June 17, 2017. The questions that crop up in all of our eye hospitals cover...

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

October 23, 2017
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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 40 eye hospitals from all over the world. David will lead the association for the next two years,...

New Chinese member of the WAEH

October 23, 2017
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The board of the WAEH wants to wish the following eye hospital a warm welcome:Eye & Ent Hospital Fudan University, in Shanghai, China. The World Association of Eye Hospitals is a world wide network of eye hospitals and is happy to welcome Eye & Ent Hospital Fudan University as a full member. All...

WAEH mentioned in Dutch Nursing magazine

October 23, 2017
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The Rotterdam Eye Hospital (Rotterdam, The Netherlands) and The Department of Ophthalmology of the University Hospital Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), both members of the WorldAssociation of Eye Hospitals, have developed a method for administering eye drops/eye ointment to patients The Dutch Nursing...

Newsletter September 2017

September 29, 2017
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Three New Full Members 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 Congratulations!!! Check out our next newsletter for more details! Moorfields...

New member of the WAEH

October 23, 2016
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The board of the WAEH wants to wish the following eye hospital a warm welcome:The Chatswood Private Hospital from Sydney, Australia. The World Association of Eye Hospitals is a world wide network of eye hospitals and is happy to welcome The Chatswood Private Hospital as an associate member.All...

World Sight Day: Stronger Together

October 23, 2016
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Did you know that approximately 285 million people around the world live with low vision and blindness? Not only elderly have to deal with low vision and blindness, also 19 million children worldwide are visually impaired.However, 80% of all those people have avoidable visual impairment, which means...

New member of the WAEH

October 29, 2015
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The board of the WAEH wants to wish the following eye hospital a warm welcome: The Tays Eye Clinic from Tampere in Finland. The World Association of Eye Hospitals is a world wide network of eye hospitals and is happy to welcome The Tays Eye Clinic (Tampere, Finland) as an associate member. All...

Singapore National Eye Centre wins the first Winsemius Award

October 29, 2015
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The Singapore National Eye Centre, part of the SingHealth Group, has won the first Winsemius Award in the category ‘Collaborative Innovation’. The SNEC won this award for the close cooperation with The Rotterdam Eye Hospital (the Netherlands) from 1997 till now. Both eye hospitals are founding...

World Sight Day 2015

October 29, 2015
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World Sight Day (WSD) is an annual day of awareness held on the second Thursday of October, to focus global attention on blindness and vision impairment. World Sight Day 2015 is on 8 October 2015. This year, the ‘Call to Action’ for World Sight Day is: Eye care for all Several...

9th Annual Meeting of the WAEH – Singapore

October 29, 2015
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9th Annual Meeting of the WAEH – Singapore – May 21 – 24 – 2015 The 9th meeting will be organized in close cooperation with the Singapore National Eye Centre.The meeting will start with an informal social meeting in the evening of May 20.More information will follow in the upcoming...

Welcome to new members!

October 23, 2015
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The board of the WAEH welcomes the following three eye hospitals from all over the world: From Finland: Tilkan Silmasairaala – Eye Hospital (associate member)From Brasil: Hospital da Visao de Pernambuco (associate member)From Italy: The Eye Hospital Turino (full member)From Brasil: Hoftalon Eye...

Welcome to new members!

October 23, 2015
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The board of the WAEH welcomes the following seven eye hospitals from the USA: Bascom Palmer Eye Institute (USA)Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary (USA)Phillips Eye Institute (USA)Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins (USA)Emory Eye Center (USA)New York Eye and Ear Infirmary (USA)Wills Eye Hospital...

Two new members WAEH

October 23, 2015
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The board of the WAEH welcomes the following eye hospitals: The Ispahani Islamia Eye Institute & Hospital (Bangladesh) The Suraj Eye Institute (India) All WAEH members have a clear focus on delivering the best and most safe ophthalmic care for their patients. Want to know more about...

SOL Innovation Award

October 23, 2015
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During the 9th meeting the former chairman of the WAEH, Mr. Kees Sol, CFO of the Rotterdam Eye Hospital, has received the inaugural SOL Innovation Award for his contributions to the WAEH since it’s establishment. Mr. Sol has always had an eye on innovation. The focus of the Rotterdam Eye Hospital...

New members of the WAEH

October 23, 2015
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he board of the WAEH is delighted to give a warm welcome to the following eye hospitals as associate member of the WAEH: – The West of England Eye Unit from Exeter, UK. – The Dr. K. Zaman BNSB Eye Hospital from Mymensingh,...