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PAAO President’s Message

28 Aug 2019

August 2019

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must believe, and which we must act upon. There is no other route to success.
~Pablo Picasso

PAAO President’s Message

24 Jul 2019

July 2019

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.

PAAO President’s Message

26 Jun 2019

  Dear Friends, “Yo creo que nada sucede por casualidad. Sabes? Que, en el fondo, las cosas tienen un plan secreto aunque nosotros no lo entendamos.” In his book entitled “La Sombra del Viento,” Carlos Ruiz Zafón reflects on the fact that things – in our lives...

PAAO President’s Message

28 Apr 2019

Dear Friends, I remember how winning the Select Free Paper prize in 1992 changed my life.  The winning prize was to present my paper at the Joint Spanish, Portuguese and PAAO Societies meeting in Sevilla, Spain. What an amazing experience.  I wanted to recreate this...

PAAO President’s Message

28 Mar 2019

Dear Friends, Every two years the Pan-American Association of Ophthalmology (PAAO) highlights achievements in Education, Prevention of Blindness and Humanitarian Service in the Americas and beyond.  At the upcoming 34th Pan-American Congress of Ophthalmology in...