1. Welcome |
- Board update talk
- Welcome to our new board member – Short introduction by:
- Dr. Sten Kjellström, St. Erik Eye Hospital, Stockholm
- Update by the Rotterdam Eye Hospital – Igor Schillevoort
| Cathy Kowalewski |
2. WAEH Annual Meeting |
- Looking forward to our 16th Annual Meeting in 2022:
- Hosts: Wilmer Eye Institute Johns Hopkins (Baltimore) and The Koret Eye Institute (San Francisco)
- Dates: WAEH meeting: Tuesday October 3 – Monday October 11
- Monday October 3: travel day from AAO to Baltimore
- Tuesday October 4:
- Morning: Boardmeeting
- Afternoon: visit to innovative location: open to members / board members
- Evening: WAEH dinner: get to know your fellow-members / speed dating with WAEH members
- Wednesday October 5: full day programme Baltimore
- Thursday October 6: full day programme Baltimore
- Friday October 7: travel to San Francisco
- Saturday October 8: visit Koret Eye Institute
- Sunday October 9: open
- Monday October 10: visit Silicon valley / visit Genentech / Zeiss innovation centre
- Event website is online:
- Call for abstract is open:
- Call for registrations is open:
- Structure of the programme:
- Proposal for meeting fees:
- Full members: two attendees included in the WAEH membership [ MVZ needs to check this in the criteria for membership]
Associate members: one attendee included in the WAEH membership
- Would you like to register more attendees?
Registration fee: 750,- euro per extra attendee Not a WAEH member? Euro 1150,- Company? Please check the sponsor opportunities.
- Sponsoring
- Update by Cathy and Maaike
- Sponsor packages are developed
- Conversations with the team of Baltimore of what is possible
- Logistics / Hotel
- Upcoming Annual Meetings
- 2023: Melbourne
- 2024: China – Hosted by the Aier Eye Hospital Group
| Maaike van Zuilen |
3. Member acquisition |
- Lusaka Eye Hospital – Zambia, Africa – Sponsored member
- Update about status monthly meetings
- End of 2022: Grow into associate membership at the end of this year
- Update conversations with potential new members:
- Conversation April:
- Takashi Hida, MD PhD
Head Cataract Division Brasília Ophthalmology Hospital HOB Chairman OPTY Eye Hospital Chain Medical Affairs takashi-hida.com.brwww.hobr.com.br www.opty.com.br —— —— —— —— —— —— —— —— President Brazil Cataract & Refractive Meeting 2019 BRASCRS Post Graduation HARVARD HMS PhD Sao Paulo University FMUSP Post Doc SP Federal University UNIFESP
- In contact with:
- 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
- David Steel
- South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust, UK
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- Eye Health Africa – African Eye Hospital Association
- Waiting list:
- Fatehmah Alshamlan – Saudi Arabia (4 months time contact again)
- Techlaser – Brasil – 56 eyehospitals
- Overview of eyehospitals
| Maaike van Zuilen |
4. WAEH Projects |
- Received project proposals
- Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital has sent a project proposal
- The call for projects has been published several times in the newsletter of the WAEH
- Update WAEH Medical Outcomes – Keratoconus
- Update WAEH Medical Outcomes – Primary Retinal Detachment – organized by MVZ
- The Rotterdam Eye Hospital – dr. Sonia Manning has started the development of the Medical Indicator Set for Primary Retinal Detachment
- The group of experts has met for the three development meetings – final session May 25 to finalize the outcome set
- The outcome set has been developed
- Feedback has been requested via the global waeh network
- Feedback is currently implemented
- Final session May 25 to finalize the outcome set
- VR group:
- Shaomin PENG, Lead of AIER Retina Team, Aier Eyehospital Group, China
- Gemmy Cheung Chui Ming, Singapore Nationale Eye Centre, Singapore
- David Steel, Sunderland Eye Infirmary, United Kingdom
- A/Prof. Penelope Allen, Centre for Eye Research Australia, Australia
- Jacey Hongjie MA, retina doctor, Aier Eyehospital Group, China
- Marcos Rubio, Retina Division, King Khaled Eye Specialist Hospital, Saudi Arabia
- Adam Wenick, MD, PhD, Wilmer Eye Hospital, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, USA
- Leads of this group:
- Sonia Manning, Ophthalmologist The Rotterdam Eye Hospital, The Netherlands
- Michele van der Kemp, External Value Based Healthcare Expert
- Layla Teunissen, policymaker The Rotterdam Eye Hospital, The Netherlands
- Maaike van Zuilen, WAEH
- Next steps regarding the medical outcome sets
- Organize webinar
- Presentation during WAEH Annual Meeting
- Design the outcome set (both not completely finalized yet)
- Publish on Hub
- Start community of practice
- Keratoconus
- Retinal Detachment
- The Rotterdam Eye Hospital has also a set coming up for glaucoma – also include in the WAEH network?
| Maaike van Zuilen |
5. Update action points |
- Eye Hospital Design
- The Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital from Dublin is planning to build a new eyehospital
- Would like to be connected
- Start Communities of Practice:
- The Community of Practice is open for all marketing and communications experts from member-eyehospitals
- [DATE to be added]
- Question from MVZ: would be great to co-create and organize with a team of communication professionals
- Communities of Practice for Nurses
- Date: Thursday June 9
- Question from MVZ: would be great to co-create and organize with a team of nursing professionals
- Ongoing email thread
- 3D printing of prosthetic eyes – date for a webinar to be planned in
- Next steps for the communities of practice and email threads:
- Make decision regarding tool (Listserve?)
- Online Education – Workshops by Moorfields
- Victoria Cohen Eye Cancer Charitable Trust
- MVZ spoke to Nick Rapley, he has set up the Victoria Cohen Eye Cancer Charitable Trust – in memory of his wife, who sadly passed away at the end of December 2020. The charity provides a budget for aspiring ocular oncologists.
Would be great if the fellowships could take place in one of our waeh member eyehospitals? Question to the board: do you provide these kinds of fellowships?
- For your agenda’s – 19th IMC (International Myopia Conference) in summer in China
- Board members and waeh network is invited
- Olena from Ukrain was helped with the help of the global WAEH network

| Maaike van Zuilen |
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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
- Mid August: WAEH annual meeting decision
- Tuesday October 4 – WAEH Annual Meeting
- Friday October 7 – WAEH Annual Meeting
- 7 Dec: 13.00 CET/7am EST
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