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ESCRS, HSIOIRS presidents welcome meeting attendees in Athens
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ATHENS, Greece — In welcoming the audience of the 20th European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons winter meeting, ESCRS president David Spalton, MD, said he was honored and delighted to do so in the city that gave birth to modern medicine 2,500 years ago.
“It is amazing to look out of my bedroom’s window, see the Acropolis and think that there is where everything started. In the golden age of Pericles, Hippocrates established the basic principles and ethics of modern medicine. His ‘do no harm’ is still underlying our medical practice today,” Spalton said.
David Spalton, MD
This 20th meeting, he said, had the largest attendance of any winter ESCRS meeting so far, with more than 2,100 delegates from 67 countries, with 900 delegates from Greece.
“This is a reflection of the tremendous hard work that Prof. Georgaras and Prof. Papadopoulos, president and vice president of the Hellenic Society of Intraocular Implant and Refractive Surgery (HSIOIRS), have done to make the meeting so good,” Spalton said.
This was the third time ESCRS joined HSIOIRS in Athens, Spyros Georgaras, MD, said.
“We are proud to host now a meeting with such a large scientific program, such a large number of papers, many of them from the local society, which defines the Greek tone of this event,” Georgaras said. “Over all these years we have been working side by side with the ESCRS board, more as close friends than colleagues, and are happy to host you again in Athens, the eternal cradle of European civilization.” – by Michela Cimberle
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