PAAO President’s Message

October 2022

This month, the PAAO partnered with Bascom Palmer Eye Institute to organize the joint 26th Pan-American Regional Course of Ophthalmology and the 44th Interamerican Course of Clinical Ophthalmology. More than 600 ophthalmologists from all over the world attended.

PAAO President’s Message

May 2020

Everything will be all right

Todo va a estar bien

Tudo acabará bem

Ça va bien aller

PAAO President’s Message

April 2020

“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.”
~ Sir William Osler, 1903

PAAO President’s Message

March 2020

“I am staying home. Please wash your hands very carefully and respect the distance of at least 2 meters from one another. We need to take care of ourselves, our families and in particular of our elderly friends.”
~Roger Federer

PAAO President’s Message

February 2020

In order to be a great clinician, one needs to understand the pathological mechanisms that leads to the signs and symptoms of a given disease in a particular patient.
–Lorenz Zimmerman