World Ophthalmology Congress (WOC) 2008 Hong Kong

MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR

Scientific Program Committee, WOC 2008

It is a great pleasure to add my welcome to the World Ophthalmology Congress 2008 in Hong Kong. I am confident that this will be an outstanding scientific meeting. The leadership and organization for the 28 specialties and subspecialties will be provided by a Who's Who of international leaders in ophthalmology as our scientific coordinators.These internationally respected leaders are recruiting outstanding moderators and chairs and, together, they ensure that we will have the best speakers from around the world.

We are all excited and most fortunate that Hong Kong is the venue for the World Ophthalmology Congress 2008. In addition to its dynamic people and natural beauty, e.g. its harbor and its skyline, Professor Dennis Lam and the Hong Kong organizers and team have arranged world class convention facilities and venues for our meeting. The logistics and most technologically up to date systems guarantee that we will have the form to match the world class substance provided by our speakers.

The world leaders in industry in our field have committed and we are therefore guaranteed to have outstanding technical exhibits.

I hope to see you in June 2008 in Hong Kong for what will be a most important and most memorable scientific meeting.

Sincerely,




Steve Ryan
Scientific Program Committee Chair
World Ophthalmology Congress 2008

 

Scientific Program Committee

Chair
Stephen Ryan (USA)
Co-Chairs
Wai-man Chan & Clement Tham (HK), Xiao-xin Li & Liang Xu (PRC)
 
Sponsor: international Council of ophthalmology
Bruce Spivey (President) Akef El Maghraby (Vice President)
Yasuo Tano (Treasurer) Jean-Jacques De Laey (Secretary General)
Richard L. Abbott J.P. Adenis
Selwa A.F. Al-Hazzaa Abdulaziz AlRajhi
Rubens Belfort, Jr. Benjamin F. Boyd (Honorary Life Member)
Daniel Etya'ale Veit-Peter Gabel
Enrique L. Graue Zdenek J. Gregor
Patrick C.P. Ho H. Dunbar Hoskins, Jr.
Mohammed Daud Khan Tero Kivela
Dennis S.C. Lam Gerhard K. Lang
Christian Luco Akira Nakajima (Honorary Life President)
Gottfried O.H. Naumann (Immediate Past President) Gullapalli N. Rao
Stephen Ryan Grace E.B. Saguti
Abdel Latif H. Siam Alfred Sommer
Bradley R. Straatsma Hugh Taylor, AC
Mark O.M. Tso Abhay R. Vasavada
Peter G. Watson Zbigniew Zagorski
Jialiang Zhao  

International and Supranational Organizations

Academia Ophthalmologica Internationalis
 - Paul Lichter
Asia-Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology
 - Yasuo Tano
 - Hugh Taylor
European Society of Ophthalmology
 - Gabriel van Rij
 - Stefan Seregard
Middle East African Council of Ophthalmology
 - Abdulaziz AlRajhi
 - Amel Ouertani
 - Mohamed Alaa El-Danasoury
Pan-American Association of Ophthalmology
 - Richard Abbott
 - Enrique Graue

Key Supporting Organizations

American Academy of Ophthalmology
 - Edward Holland
 - Dunbar Hoskins Jr.
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology
 - Joanne Angle
Chinese Ophthalmological Society
 - Jian Ge
 - Kan-xing Zhao
European Association for Vision and Eye Research
 - Tero Kivela
 - Uwe Pleyer

World Ophthalmology Congresses

Frank Martin (Sydney, Australia) - 2002
Rubens Belfort Jr. (Sao Paulo, Brazil) - 2006
Gerhard Lang (Berlin, Germany) - 2010