IOIS International Ocular Inflammation Society

IOIS 2023: Thank You !

Post Meeting Message

The IOIS committee would like to thank all those involved with the 2023 congress, including our speakers, sponsors and colleagues for sharing their time and insights during the 17th meeting of the International Ocular Inflammation Society and 7th International Assembly of Ocular Inflammation Societies, which was be held in Berlin from 6-9 September 2023.

We welcomed over 700 participants from 70 countries. The presentations were of a high calibre and all sessions were well attended. So far, the feedback has been overwhelmingly positive, which is very encouraging and we look forward to start preparing the 2025 Meeting.

Meet the new Executive Board

Committee changes

During the IOIS 2023 congress the elections for the new IOIS Executive Board were held. We thank the outgoing board members for their commitment in servicing for two terms (2015-2019 / 2019-2023) and we welcomed the new elected board members.

President Quan Dong Nguyen, USA	profile
General Secretary Carlos Pavesio, United Kingdom	profile
Co-Treasurer Talin Barisani, Austria	profile
Co-Treasurer Daniel Vitor Vasconcelos-Santos, Brazil	profile
Chair of International Council Soon Phaik Chee, Singapore	profile
Past President Bahram Bodaghi, France	profile
EBC Member at large Lyndell Lim, Australia	profile
EBC Member at large Harvey Siy Uy, Philippines	profile

Executive Board 2023-2027
Top L to R: Harvey Siy UY, Bahram Bodaghi, Lyndell Lim
Bottom L to R: Soon-Phaik Chee, Quan Dong Nguyen, Talin Barisani, Daniel Vasconcelos-Santos, Carlos Pavesio.

IOIS 2025

We are pleased to announce that the destination for the next IOIS congress in 2025 is Rio de Janeiro, Brazil! The exact date will follow. We look forward to welcoming you all for another exquisite congress !

IOIS 2023 Awards

GOLD MEDAL AWARD 2023
Congratulations to
Prof. Justine SMITH
on receiving the IOIS 2023 Gold Medal

BEN EZRA AWARD 2023
Congratulations to
- Prof. Shigeaki OHNO and
- Prof. Christophe BAUDOUIN
on receiving the IOIS 2023 Ben Ezra Award

PICTURE AWARD 2023

Congratulations to
Dr. Fabrizio GOZZI
on receiving the IOIS 2023 Picture Award with the image
"The "aurora borealis" pattern of vitreous infiltration in vitreo-retinal lymphoma on ultrawide-field retinography"

IOIS 2023 EACCME Accredited

"The 17th International Ocular Inflammation Society (IOIS) Congress, Berlin, Germany, 06/09/2023-09/09/2023 has been accredited by the European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (EACCME®) with 22 European CME credits (ECMEC®s). Each medical specialist should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the educational activity.”

“Through an agreement between the Union Européenne des Médecins Spécialistes and the American Medical Association, physicians may convert EACCME® credits to an equivalent number of AMA PRA Category 1 Credits TM. Information on the process to convert EACCME® credit to AMA credit can be found at www.ama-assn.org/education/earn-credit-participation-international-activities.

“Live educational activities, occurring outside of Canada, recognised by the UEMS-EACCME® for ECMEC®s are deemed to be Accredited Group Learning Activities (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.”

EACCME® credits

Each participant can only receive the number of credits he/she is entitled to according to his/her actual participation at the event once he/she has completed the feedback form. Cf. criteria 9 and 23 of UEMS 2016.20.

HOW to claim your Accreditation?

Log into your IOIS account through the login panel (see footer of the IOIS website), you will need your email address and password. If you dont have your password or forgot your password, just enter your email address and click "forgot password". An email will be send to you to (re)set your password.
Once logged in click on the green button"My Account"
Select "My CME" from the dropdown menu - you will see a download file.
Please make sure to fill out and submit the evaluation form, requested by the Accreditation Services. Thank you!

Certificates of Attendance.

Registered participants can now download a IOIS 2023 Certificate of Attendance through their IOIS account.

HOW?

Log into your IOIS account through the login panel (see footer of the IOIS website), you will need your email address and password. If you dont have your password or forgot your password, just enter your email address and click "forgot password". An email will be send to you to (re)set your password.
Once logged in click on the green button"My Account"
- Select "My certificate" from the dropdown menu
- Click on "Certificate of Attendance IOISCongress 2023 (pdf) the pdf will download automatically