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Letter from President

LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE EUROPEAN EYE BANK ASSOCIATION WITH UPDATED INFORMATION

Dear Colleagues and Friends,

I warmly welcome you to the EEBA web-site. After a successful Annual Meeting in Freiburg (21-22 January 2011), I would like to take this opportunity to provide Members with further details of recent changes concerning our Association, together with information relating to decisions which were made during the Business Meeting.

Given that the world of science and knowledge is in constant evolution, the EEBA Committee decided to give some necessary impetus to the EEBA activity during the course of last year, in order to maintain EEBA's role as the leading pan-national association in Europe dedicated to the advancement of eye-banking. The results of these endeavours are listed below.

Main action-points that were accomplished in 2010:

  • The new EEBA web-site (www.europeaneyebanks.org) has been fully implemented. For the first time data collection for the Annual Directory was organised through the web-site and the 2010 Directory was issued in the form of a CD. All the data from the Directory is available for Members on the web-site. For future Meetings, both a paper and CD version of the Directory will be produced for Members.
  • EEBA Members can now get information on the availability of surplus tissue on the official EEBA web-site. Individual EEBA eye-banks which have tissue to offer other eye-banks can insert data about such tissue on the web-site. Those eye-banks that are "in need of tissue" can then contact the Correspondent of the offering bank for further details/information on the particular tissues available. The EEBA does not, of course, assume any liability for the quality of tissue offered or tissue exchanges - its web-site is only an information point where those "in need" can connect with those "in surplus".
  • The revisions and updating of the EEBA Rules were finalized and a Final Draft was sent to all Members one month prior to the Annual Meeting. The Members' unanimous approval on the proposed Rule changes was obtained during the Business Meeting in Freiburg and the updated Rules can be found on the EEBA web-site.
  • In 2010 the EEBA was officially invited to give presentations at two International Meetings:
  • a) at the 1st EuCornea Meeting in Venice (800 participants) two topics were presented: "European Eye Bank Association" and "Organ culture of corneal tissue - quality aspects";
  • b) at the 19th International Congress of the European Association of Tissue Banks (EATB) in Berlin (240 participants) a presentation was made on "EEBA - History, Presence and Future".
  • For 2011, the following two "EEBA Instructional Courses" at major Ophthalmology Meetings have been organised by the Committee:
  • a) SOE/AAO Meeting in Geneva (June 2011) - course entitled: "Donor cornea selection: implications on graft survival";
  • b) EuCornea Meeting in Vienna (September 2011) - course on "Eye banking for the corneal surgeon".
  • An EEBA information booklet describing the aims and activities of the Association was published and distributed to over 300 European ophthalmic surgeons, researchers and other health professionals connected with eye-banking, in order to increase awareness of the existence of the EEBA.
  • Honorary EEBA Memberships were awarded during the Freiburg Meeting to two prominent Members of the EEBA, Dr. Liesbeth Pels and Hanneke Maas from the Cornea Bank Amsterdam, who were justifiable honoured for their significant and long-standing contributions to the expansion of eye-banking in Europe and to the development of EEBA. We are proud to have them among us!

I would like to personally thank all those individual Members who actively participated in bringing the above tasks to fruition by their actions, comments, observations, suggestions and constructive criticisms. In particular, special thanks go to Andrea and Claus Gareiss-Lok from Munich for the work undertaken in developing our web-site and for the on-line collection of data for the Directory, and to Martin Hermel from Aachen for his resolute work on the revision of the EEBA Rules.

The success of the XXIII EEBA Annual Meeting - so well organized by our hosts from Freiburg, with a noteworthy number of highly interesting scientific papers and posters on eye-banking and innovative developments in corneal transplantation - is a tangible outcome of the constant work and progress of eye-banking in Europe, and I want to that all EEBA Members for the part that they continuously play in making these annual meetings so intellectually stimulating and professionally rewarding!

If you are not yet an EEBA Member, then I would highly recommend that you consider joining this wonderful society as you will surely receive real professional and scientific benefits by becoming an active member, and vice-versa as the EEBA will become a stronger and better Association with each new individual contribution. Your support of EEBA is important to help foster our strong reputation and excellence. Remember! EEBA can only effectively function in a process of ongoing improvement and is reliant on the encouragement, dedication and spirit of its membership. 

Please do not hesitate to contact me, or our Secretariat (admin@europeaneyebanks.org), with any comments or suggestions regarding EEBA.

With best regards

 

Prof. Iva Dekaris, MD, PhD

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