Swiss Academy of Ophthalmology

The Swiss Academy of Ophthalmology ( SAoO ) is a central Swiss training facility for ophthalmologists and related professions based in Berneck . It was founded on August 16, 2016.

The aim is a practice-relevant and interactive transfer of knowledge, the quality assurance of ophthalmological care and the strengthening of scientific research in Switzerland. It is supported by a foundation, the Swiss Academy of Ophthalmology Foundation. The president of the foundation is the ophthalmologist Dietmar Thumm, the president of the program commission is the St. Gallen ophthalmologist Daniel Mojon . The academy wants to meet annually; the first congress took place from March 8 to 10, 2017 in Lucerne . The focus was on new therapies for retinal diseases , glaucoma and cataracts as well as current developments in the operation of ametropia ( refractive surgery ).

Every year an innovation prize is awarded at the SAoO congress. In 2018 it went to the Belgian ophthalmologist Marc Gobin, who had developed an initial concept for the minimally invasive strabismus surgery (MISS) developed by Daniel Mojon . In 2019, the American pediatric ophthalmologists Ken Nishal and David Granet were honored with the innovation award.

There is also a development association, also based in Berneck.

literature

• Congress report on the first SAoO meeting in Deutsches Ärzteblatt on April 21, 2017
• Congress report on the 2019 conference in Deutsches Ärzteblatt

Web links

• Website of the Swiss Academy of Ophthalmology
• Artificial tears are not always enough , article in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung about an eye disease discussed at the SAoO, keratoconjunctivitis sicca
• Facebook page of the Swiss Academy of Ophthalmology

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEKnk1f9Xh8 short speech by Gobins at the SAoO 2018
2. ↑ Newsletter of the International Society for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus, WSPOS (PDF)