Message from the PAOF Chair
Dear Colleagues: One of the goals established at the recent PAAO board meeting was to provide more training and support opportunities to our Young Ophthalmologists in the Americas, Spain and Portugal. We are proud to announce the launching of a new program, the...Richard & Cecilia “Chita” Abbott Young Ophthalmologist Leadership Award Launched
The Pan-American Association of Ophthalmology (PAAO) is excited to announce a new program in support of the PAAO’s Leadership Development Course (Curso de Liderazgo): The Richard & Chita Abbott Young Ophthalmologist Leadership Award. The purpose of this endowed...First Young Paraguayan Society Workshop 2019
On June 29 in the city of Asunción, Paraguay the event called “First Young SPO Workshop” (Paraguayan Society of Young Ophthalmologists) was held for the first time and it was a big success. Residents of Ophthalmology and Ophthalmologists under 40 years presented clinical cases in front of a jury and the general public.
PAAO President’s Message
The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head.”
~William Osler
The words of William Osler, a McGill graduate who became a great physician and professor at McGill, Johns Hopkins & Oxford, are very meaningful to describe my first two months as a President of PAAO.