PAAO Announcements
Help identify the Great Challenges in Global Eye Health
On behalf of the Lancet Commission on Global Eye Health, Professor Matthew Burton and Professor Hannah Faal would like to invite PAAO members to participate in a study aimed at identifying the "great challenges" in global eye health.
Champalimaud Foundation Awards €1M to Three Brazilian Institutions
The 2019 António Champalimaud Vision Award recognizes the Instituto da Visão – IPEPO, the Altino Ventura Foundation and the UNICAMP Ophthalmology Service, three longstanding organizations that have worked to prevent blindness and visual impairment...
Enrique Graue Wiechers Recognized by ANUIES
Wong, Alma Paola. Photograph of Enrique Graue Wiechers receiving ANUIES recognition. Milenio, 20 Aug. 2019, https://www.milenio.com/politica/graue-exige-rescatar-a-universidades-con-deficitThe Rectors of the most prestigious universities in Mexico presented an...
Call for Papers
Dear friends, It is my pleasure to announce that we are online and live at www.thepajo.org with all new cover and pages design of The Pan-American Journal of Ophthalmology. As planned, PAJO will publish in an on demand (continuous) flow along the year. This is...
PAAO-YO Lounge at Congress
We are excited to announce a new PAAO-YO activity! With the generous support from Johnson & Johnson Vision, a PAAO-YO Lounge is being organized to provide a place for Young Ophthalmologists from all over the world to meet, to network, to exchange scientific...
Have you noticed anything different in your inbox?
We all get too many emails these days. At end of last year we realized that in our desire to keep you updated with all the new PAAO news and events, we were also sending out too many emails. We love our members and we respect your time. So some...
Suel Abujamra 1933-2018
Prof. Dr. Suel Abujamra devoted his life to Ophthalmology in Brazil as he used to say: "mobilize and raise awareness about all blindness that could be avoided." He passed away on December 29, 2018, after bravely fighting among doctors at Sírio Libanes Hospital and...
Manuel Eduardo Valdez 1918-2019
On January 25, 2019, Dominican medicine lost one of its great Professors, a trainer of generations of specialists in the field of ophthalmology, Dr. Manuel Eduardo Valdez Guerrero, who would have turned 101 in May of this year. Dr. Valdez was born in Nizao, Peravia...
Dr. Natalio Izquierdo Presented the 2018 Guillermo Picó Santiago Memorial Lecture
PAAO to be honored with Distinguished Service Award at AAO 2017
Every year the American Academy of Ophthalmology recognizes organizations and individuals who have made significant contributions to ophthalmology. The Pan-American Association of Ophthalmology is proud to announce that it will be presented the Distinguished...