ESCRS Peter Barry Fellowship 2018

The Peter Barry Fellowship allows trainee to work abroad at a centre of excellence for a year

Colin Kerr

Published: Thursday, February 1, 2018

Applications are open for the Peter Barry Fellowship 2018. This Fellowship commemorates the immense contribution made by the late Peter Barry to ophthalmology and to the ESCRS. The Fellowship of €60,000 is to allow a trainee to work abroad at a centre of excellence for clinical experience or research in the field of cataract and refractive surgery, anywhere in the world, for one year. The 2017 winners of the inaugural Peter Barry Fellowship were Luis Fernández-Vega, Nino Hirnschall and Myriam Böhm (pictured above with outgoing ESCRS President David Spalton and Carmel Barry, wife of the late Dr Barry). Applicants must be European trainee ophthalmologists, 40 years of age or under on the closing date for applications and have been ESCRS members for three years by the time of starting the Fellowship. The Fellowship will be awarded at the ESCRS Annual Congress in Vienna in September 2018, to start in 2019. To apply, please submit the following: ∙ A detailed up-to-date CV ∙ A letter of intent of 1-2 pages, outlining which centre you wish to attend and why ∙ A letter of recommendation from your current Head of Department ∙ A letter from your potential host institution, indicating that they will accept you if successful The closing date for applications is 1 May 2018. Applications and queries should be sent to Danielle Maher at Danielle.Maher@escrs.org.