Gillingham Fellowship Experience: Dr. Julia de Lima Farah
Along with pursuing a Retina fellowship, the possibility of training abroad was a big dream. I decided to take my chances and applied for an international vitreo-retinal fellowship in Canada...
January Leadership Course 2020
The Pan-American Curso de Liderazgo (leadership course) is preparing the best young ophthalmologists to take leadership roles in their community and professional organizations. See what they did at the January 2020 work session.
Richard & Chita Abbott Young Leader Award First Recipient Announced
Jaime Soria Viteri (Ecuador) representing the Ecuadorian Society of Ophthalmology was the 2019 recipient for his project “OftalmoEconomics”.
SOPANOP Travel Award: Dr. Adriana Velasco y Levy
My name is Adriana Velasco and I am an oculoplastic ophthalmologist graduated in 2018 from the Instituto Conde de Valenciana and trained by Dr. José Luis Tovilla and his team. Through SOPANOP / Allergan I was...
The Ophthalmic Pathology Review Course: A Medical Student’s Perspective
Left to right: Dr. Isabela Vianello, Clara E. Tavares, Dr. Miguel Burnier Jr., Carolina Nishiwaki Dantas and Dr. Rubens Belfort Neto My name is Carolina and I’m a third year medical student from Brazil. This August I had the opportunity to attend this year’s...
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.
LATIN AMERICAN GUIDE TO PRIMARY OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA FOR THE GENERAL OPHTHALMOLOGIST
LATIN AMERICAN GUIDE TO PRIMARY OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA FOR THE GENERAL OPHTHALMOLOGIST by Dr. Fernando Barría von-Bischhoffshausen Glaucoma is the second cause of global blindness after cataract, with irreversible loss, unlike cataract, which is recoverable. The most...
PARD 2019 RECAP
Over 200 ophthalmologists and researchers from 16 countries around the world participated in the 2019 Pan-American Research Day which took place in Saturday, April 27, Vancouver, Canada, co-sponsored by ARVO, the Association for Research in Vision and...
EPIDEMIC OF DIABETES: A CRITICAL CHALLENGE.
EPIDEMIC OF DIABETES: A CRITICAL CHALLENGE BY FERNANDO BARRIA MD The demand for service in ophthalmology will continue to increase throughout the world due to the aging of the population and the uncontrolled increase of diabetes, increasing...
Leadership Course Jan 2019
The Pan-American Curso de Liderazgo (leadership course) participants attended a work session in San Francisco, January 18-21, 2019. PAAO Curso participants joined with the American Academy of Ophthalmology Leadership Development Program (AAO LDP) and European...