5 – 8 September 2021
Looking far and beyond – Learning from other industries and from peers
Hosted by The WAEH
Stockholm, Sweden
Host: St Erik Eye Hospital
Website: https://www.sankterik.se/en-us/
Suggestions or ideas about interesting and important eyecare and eye hospital topics and themes are welcome! Or would you like to host or present at The WAEH Annual Meeting? Feel free to submit your suggestions via this form. Welcome!!
During the annual meetings members have the opportunity to collaborate and exchange information and knowledge about all kinds of topics. Good examples of this include improving the efficiency in the service given to patients and continuous development of patient pathways.
Since the establishment of the WAEH in 2007 in Rotterdam, the WAEH has had the opportunity to visit eyehospitals in Rotterdam and Leuven (2007), Singapore, Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur (annual meeting 2008), Sweden, Finland and Estonia (annual meeting 2009), Melbourne and Jakarta (annual meeting 2010), in London and Leuven (annual meeting 2011), Seoul and Bangkok (2012), Mexico (2013), India and Dubai (2014), Singapore (2015), Rotterdam (2016), the 11thannual meeting was hosted by the Tianjin Medical University Eye Hospital in China (2017), the 12th by the Kellogg Eye Center from Ann Arbor, USA and the 13th annual meeting in London (2019). In 2020 we had a fully digital event due to Corona. In 2021 we will visit Stockholm, Sweden and is the event hosted by St Erik Eye Hospital.
WAEH 15th Annual Meeting themes
2021 – Forward together – developing the eye care of the future.
The Eye Hospital of the Future
- Background philosophy
- Adaptability to new challenges and technical development
- Designing new eyehospitals
- The building process – To move a new hospital building – lessons learned
External Relations – Creating Collaborations between industry, academia and health care for the benefit of our Patients
The eye care of the future – Trends and Outlooks
- Telemedicine
- Self-monitoring
- AI – screening
- Digitalization
New products, regulatory studies/approvals in the field of eyes
- Social media and quality of information
- Telemedicine / Virtual Reality / Augmented Reality / Artificial Intelligence/ Robotics
- Innovation processes – How to Implement Design Thinking in Eye Hospitals
Open for registration soon!
Hotel
Keynote speakers
The Keynote speakers will be announced soon.
Social events
Via this website we will update you about our planned social events for the 2021 meeting in Stockholm.
Meeting fees 2021
Registration fee: 750,- euro per person per member.
Not a WAEH member? Euro 1250,-
Company? Please check the sponsor opportunities.
Speaker Ready Room
Opening hours Registration Desk, Speaker Service Center and Exhibition, people to contact: will be announced two weeks before the meeting.
Art show
During the WAEH 2021 meeting we will – just like in 2019 – organize an art viewing.
Are you an artist from Stockholm and would you like to show your art to a crowd of ‘eye-related’ people?
Apply now and send an email to Maaike van Zuilen: maaike.vanzuilen@waeh.org
Artists from 2019
Dean Rossiter is an internationally exhibiting artist from London. Known throughout Europe, Asia and America for his unique approach to painting.
Idoia Zubia is a French and Spanish artist. She has worked in fashion, decoration and textiles for 17 years.
One of her most remarkable work was an order from Givenchy to hand paint a dress for the singer Beyonce, at the MET of New York in 2016.
