Slovenia welcomes delegates to 18th ESCRS Winter Meeting

Slovenia welcomes delegates to 18th ESCRS Winter Meeting

Addressing the ESCRS Winter Meeting in Ljubljana, president of the ESCRS, 

Roberto Bellucci, said he was delighted to welcome delegates as this was the first 

time that an ESCRS meeting had taken place in Slovenia.

“We are very pleased to be working with our friends and colleagues from the 

Slovenian Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgeons [SSCRS],” said Dr Bellucci, 

“and I would like to give special thanks to Dr Vladimir Pfeifer and Dr Marko 

Hawlina for their assistance and encouragement,” 

he said.

Dr Bellucci said that this was his first meeting as president of ESCRS and he 

looked forward to working with members of the society over the next two 

years. “The members are the ESCRS and with their support we will continue to 

grow,” he said.

Dr Pfeifer, one of the local hosts and a member of the ESCRS Education 

Committee, welcomed delegates to the meeting and invited them to attend 

today’s Live Surgery Session which is organised by the SSCRS and transmitted 

from the University Medical Centre, University Eye Hospital, Ljubljana. Dr Pfeifer 

and Dr Hawlina, president of the Slovenian Society of Ophthalmology, will also 

chair a special symposium organised by the SSCRS on Sunday.

The congress opened yesterday with the Annual Cornea Day organised in 

conjunction with EuCornea and chaired by Dr José Güell, president EuCornea 

and Dr Rudy Nuijts, chairperson of the EuCornea Committee. Other first-
day highlights included a symposium on Enhancements in Pseudophakia, 

courses in Basic Optics, Cataract Surgery and Refractive Surgery and a Young 

Ophthalmologists Programme. There were also Free Paper sessions on Special 

Cases and Cataract.

The congress continues today with symposia on Applications of the 

Femtosecond Laser and Update on Endophthalmitis and courses in Cataract 

Surgery, Refractive Surgery and Cornea, Free Papers on Cataract and ePoster 

presentations. This morning prizes will be awarded for the best Cataract and 

Refractive poster presentations of the meeting. 

The meeting concludes tomorrow with a symposium on The Perfect Phaco, the 

SSCRS symposium and a Refractive Surgery Free Paper Session. Next year’s 

Winter Meeting will be held in Istanbul.

* Further reports  in EuroTimes ,official news magazine of the ESCRS.