Vice-President: Dr Mutale Nyaywa
Secretary General: Dr Willard Mumbi
Publicity Secretary: Dr John Yotam Mvula
Immediate Past President: Dr Misa Funjika
Contact: admin@wspos.org
The Zambia Ophthalmological Society was formed in 2009. The Objectives of ZOS include:
Promote and support research
Promote co-operation with other ophthalmologic Societies
To arrange and hold periodic meetings for professional and educational development
Lobbying and advocacy
The society currently has 23 members, ophthalmologists and in addition, there are associate members that
include residents, ophthalmic nurses, ophthalmic clinical officers and optometrists.
Currently paediatric eye services are being offered in Kitwe, Copperbelt Province which also carter for the vast Northern region of the country and soon preparing to start paediatric services at the University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka. The Society is actively looking into among others the reduction of childhood blindness through introduction of comprehensive child eye health services that encompass child eye health promotion, retinopathy of prematurity screening and treatment, and comprehensive retinoblastoma management.
President/Head: Dr. Fitsum Bekele
President/Head: Akim Mashoko
President/Head: Dr. Ssali Grace
President/Head: Dr. Pradeepa K. Siriwardena; DO, MS, FRCS
President/Head: Dr Igor Aznauryan, MD, Dr. Sc., Prof
President/Head: Dr. Said Hussein Gedi, MD, Consultant Eye Surgeon
President/Head: Prof. Iwona Grabska-Liberek
President/Head: Prof. Adedayo Omobolanle Adio
President/Head: Dr Suman Thapa, MD, PhD
President/Head: Chimgee Chuluunkhuu
President/Head: Dr. Gerald Msukwa
President/Head: Karima lamin Shalabi, MD
President/Head: Dr. Ibrahim Matende
President/Head: Prim. Neda Striber, MD
President/Head: Prof Ebana Mvogo
President/Head: Prof. A.H.M. Enayet Hussain
President/Head: Prof. Elmar Qasimov
President/Head: Professor Ourida Ouhadj
President/Head: Dr. Dastagir Amiri MD, PGD, Ophthalmologist
President/Head: Guy Barnett-Itzhaki
President/Head: Birgit Lorenz
President/Head: Jan Roelof Polling
President/Head: Osman Sevki
President/Head: Catherine Liu
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President/Head: Prof. Adriano Magli
President/Head: Jose Fernando Perez
President/Head: FERNANDO FALCÃO
President/Head: Professor Audrey Chia
President/Head: Dr. Norman Fajardo
President/Head: Dr Kenneth Choong-Sian Fong
President/Head: Dr Gerald W Zaidman
President/Head: Nataliya Pasyechnikova
President/Head: Prof Khin Ommar Khine
President/Head: Dr. Ahmed Abdullah Ahmed
President/Head: Dr. Essam Batayneh
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President/Head: Sara Flodin
President/Head: Dr José Luis Güell
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President/Head: Zia Mohammad
President/Head: Dr. Eduardo Chavez Mondragon
President/Head: Dr. Dipl.-Kfm. Philip Gass
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President/Head: Dr Shuan Dai
President/Head: Alvit Wolf
President/Head: Hamzah Almajedi
President/Head: Prof. Natasa Vidovic Valentincic
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President/Head: Dr.Shantha Balekudaru DNB
President/Head: Prof. Vinita Singh
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President/Head: Dominique Bremond-Gignac
President/Head: G. Darius Hildebrand FRCS FRCOphth FEBO
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President/Head: Lisbeth Sandfeld
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President/Head: Levi Kandeke
President/Head: Dr Fabio Ejzenbaum
President/Head: Prof. Dr. Michael Schittkowski / Prof. Dr. Ina Sterker
President/Head: Adriana Solano
President/Head: Verônica Cardoso Alves
President/Head: Christopher Tinley; SOUTH AFRICA
WSPOS
World Society of Paediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus
Ground floor, The Apex Building
Blackthorn Road
Sandyford Business Park
Dublin 18
D18 h6k2
Phone: +353 1 288 3630
Email: wspos@wspos.org
Charity Registration Number: 1144806
