NIIOS Education - General Information

Surgical techniques developed by NIIOS R&D are presented through presentation at scientific meetings and publications in ophthalmic journals. To get surgeons started, NIIOS Education organizes advanced keratoplasty wetlab instruction courses in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, at regular time intervals. In addition, surgeons can apply for personal coaching in advanced keratoplasty techniques, ie a training with live surgeries. 

Visitors 2010

Observer consulting hours, July 14, 2010
- Dr. Christoph Ammermann - Köln, Germany

Wetlab course participants, June 15/16, 2010
- Dr. Frank Howes - Brisbane, QLD, Australia
- Dr. Laura de Benito-Llopis - London, UK
- Dr. Pier Federico Fiorini - Bologna, Italy
- Dr. Miguel Naveiras Torres-Quiroga - Oviedo, Spain

Observer surgical sessions, June 15, 2010
- Dr. Ivanka van der Meulen - Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Dr. Carla Nieuwendaal - Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Mrs. Catherine Leynseele - Zuidland, Netherlands

Observer consulting hours, June 9, 2010
- Dr. Esther Kuiper - Rotterdam, Netherlands

Wetlab course participants, May 18/19, 2010
- Dr. Eduard Haefliger - Binningen, Switzerland
- Dr. Michael Grob - Binningen, Switzerland
- Dr. Georg Gerten - Köln, Germany
- Dr. Theo Seiler - Zürich, Switzerland

Wetlab course participants, March 30/31, 2010
- Dr. Frank Goes - Antwerp, Belgium
- Dr. Ewa Mrukwa-Kominek - Katowice, Poland
- Dr. Tobias Neuhann - München, Germany
- Dr. Francisco Arnalich - Madrid, Spain
- Dr. Dimitrios Miltsakakis - Athens, Greece
- Dr. Udo Paulus - Köln, Germany
- Dr. Alfonso Iovieno - Toronto, ON, Canada

Wetlab course participants, February 26/27, 2010
Fuchs Corneal Dystrophy Symposium, Baltimore, MD, USA,
Dr. John D. Gottsch 
- Dr. John Baer - Hanover, PA, USA
- Dr. Emilio Báez - Caguas, Puerto Rico
- Dr. Stacy Bang - Silver Spring, MD, USA
- Dr. Louis Betz - Lewisburg, PA, USA
- Dr. Salim Butrus - Dunn Loring, VA, USA
- Dr. Steven Chang - Ventura, CA, USA
- Dr. Vincent Dahringer - Raleigh, NC, USA
- Dr. Daniel Goodman - San Francisco, CA, USA
- Dr. Sadeer Hannush - Langhorne, PA, USA
- Lt. Col. Ava Huchun - Richmond Hill, GA, USA
- Dr. Danny Lee - Madison, AL, USA
- Dr. Mark Lister - Belleville, NJ, USA
- Dr. Aisha Macedo - Baltimore, MD, USA
- Dr. J. Alberto Martinez - Bethesda, MD, USA
- Dr. Kenneth Maverick - San Antonio, TX, USA
- Dr. Riwo Oboh-Weilke - Fort Washington, MD, USA
- Dr. Gregory Pamel - New York, NY, USA
- Dr. John Parker - Birmingham, AL, USA
- Dr. Leejee H. Suh - New York, NY, USA
- Dr. Thomas Wood - Memphis, TN, USA
- Donald Ward, CEBT - Memphis, TN, USA
- Jon Hargis, CEBT - Memphis, TN, USA

Observer surgical sessions, February 9, 2010
- Dr. Frank Goes, Jr. - Antwerp, Belgium 

Corneal fellow from February 2010
- Dr. Martin Dirisamer - Linz, Austria

Visitors 2009

Observers surgical sessions, December 8, 2009
- Dr. Sergio Kandelman - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil www.skopus.com.br
- Dr. Benedicte Putting - Haarlem, The Netherlands
- Dr. Hans Schuitmaker - Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Mr. Daniel Lobatto - Leiden, The Netherlands
- Mr. Pieter Hebly - Leiden, The Netherlands

Wetlab course participants, November 17/18, 2009
- Dr. Evangelos Minos - Heraklion, Greece
- Dr. Romain De Cock - Canterbury, Kent, UK
- Dra. Graciana Alejandra Fuentes Paez - Barcelona, Spain
- Dr. Martin Dirisamer - Linz, Austria
- Dr. Kostas Boboridis - Thessaloniki, Greece
- Dr. Jan Markus Vetter - Mainz, Germany

Wetlab course participants, October 13/14, 2009
- Dr. Otto Maubach - Köln, Germany
- Dr. Matt Ball - Bristol, UK
- Dr. Alexey Dashevsky - München, Germany
- Dr. Ali Abri - Wels, Austria
- Dr. Guy Sallet - Aalst, Belgium
- Dr. Chi-yuen Shiu - Hong Kong, China
- Dr. Abdel Hakim Taguri - Dammam, KSA Saudi Arabia

Wetlab course participants, October 2, 2009
Instituto de Oftalmología La Arruzafa, Córdoba, Spain,
Dr. Alberto Villarrubia Cuadrado 
- Dr. Juan Alvarez de Toledo - Barcelona
- Dra. Paloma Alvarez Pato - Madrid
- Dr. Emeterio Orduna Domingo - Palma de Mallorca
- Dr. Carlos-Luis Moser Würth - Barcelona
- Dra. Alaitz Santamaria Carro - Baracaldo
- Dra. Raquel Feijoo Lera - Baracaldo
- Dr. Ignacio Montero de Espinosa - Sevilla
- Dra. Itziar Martinez Soroa - Tolosa
- Dr. David Salom - Valencia
- Dr. Jesus Daniel Martinez Rodriguez - Madrid
- Dr. Angel López Castro - Madrid

Corneal fellow September 2009 thru March 2010
- Dr. med. Konstantinos Droutsas - Athens, Greece

Observer surgical sessions, September 1, 2009
- Priv. Doz. Dr. med. Peter Szurman - Tübingen, Germany 

Observer surgical sessions, July 7, 2009
- Dr. Maria Angeles Montes - Madrid, Spain

Observer consulting hours, July 1, 2009
- Dr. John Hofbauer - Beverly Hills, USA
- Dr. Laura Fox - Beverly Hills, USA 

Wetlab course participants, June 9/10, 2009
- Dr. Matthias Böhnke - Hamburg, Germany
- Dr. Denis Martin-Gousset - Dijon, France
- Dr. Erich Groos - Nashville, USA
  www.corneaconsultants.com
- Dr. Andreas Mohr - Bremen, Germany
- Dr. Shadrokh Nabili - Belfast, UK
- Dr. David Varssano - Tel Aviv, Israel
- Dr. Steven Wiffen - Nedlands, Australia
  www.lei.org.au

Observer consulting hours, June 3, 2009
- Dr. Otto Wolter - East Grinstead, UK

Observer consulting hours, May 19, 2009
- Dr. Jan van der Hoek - Scarborough, UK

Corneal fellow February thru November 2009
- Dr. Kyros Moutsouris - Athens, Greece

Corneal fellow since September 2008
- Dr. Isabel Dapena - Madrid, Spain 

Observer consulting hours, January 21, 2009
- Dr. Magdalena Netukova - Prague, Czech Republic http://www.fnkv.cz/?show=kliniky&menu=3&oddeleni=32

Visitors 2008

Corneal fellow January thru June 2008
- Dr. Chandra Balachandran - Strathfield, Australia

Observer consulting hours, September 24, 2008
- Femke Ellerman - Almere, The Netherlands

Visitor, November 27, 2008
- Dr. Salomon Fermon-Schwaycer - Mexico City, Mexico http://www.cenofi.com/

Wetlab course participants, November 25/26, 2008
- Dr. Juan A. Duran - Bilbao, Spain
- Dr. David George Frazer FRCS - Belfast, Northern Ireland
- Ph.D Blanca Garcia Sandoval - Madrid, Spain
- Dr. Sasan Niknam, MD - Shiraz, Iran
- Dr. Michael A. Thiel - Lucerne, Switzerland

Wetlab course participants, October 21/22, 2008
- Dr. Mark Wilkins - London, United Kingdom 
- Dr. Victor Andrigheti Coronado Antunes - Assis, Brazil
- Drs. Peter Fritsche - Hoofddorp, The Netherlands
- Dr. Tillmann Eckert - Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- Dr. Hernando Chacon-Andrade - Red deer, Canada
- Dr. Ioannis Athanasiadis - Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
- Dr. David G.C. Pendergrast, FRANZCO - Auckland, New Zealand

Wetlab course participants, September 16/17, 2008
- Jerry W. Barker, BS, CEBT - Winston-Salem, USA www.ocularsystemsinc.com/
- Dr. Neil B. Griffin - Southern Pines, USA
- Dr. Andrew Logan - Wellington, New Zealand
- Dr. Juan Pablo Rodriguez-Perez - San Diego, USA
- Gregory A. Schmidt, BS, CEBT - Iowa, USA
- Prof. Donald Tan - Singapore, Singapore
- Dr. Davide Venzano - Genova, Italy
- Dr. Sonia H. Yoo - Miami, USA

Observer consulting hours, September 10, 2008
- Sung Dong Chang, MD - Daegu, Korea

Wetlab course participant, August 26/27, 2008
- Konstantinos Droutsas, MD - Athens, Greece

Observer surgical sessions, August 19, 2008
- Marco Nardi, MD PhD - Pisa, Italy

Wetlab course participants, July 16, 2008
- Bruce Allan, MD PhD - London, United Kingdom
- Sheraz Daya, MD PhD - West Sussex, United Kingdom
- Gerd Geerling, MD PhD - Wurzburg, Germany
- Hassan Hashemi, MD - Teheran, Iran
- Marco Nardi, MD PhD - Pisa, Italy
- Jerome Vryghem, MD PhD - Brussels, Belgium

Observers surgical sessions, July 1, 2008
- Ger Vijfvinkel - Zuidland, The Netherlands
- Manfred Klomp - Zuidland, The Netherlands

Observers surgical sessions, June 24, 2008
- Martin Hermel, MD - Aachen, Germany www.ukaachen.de/content/folder/1019008/1
- Andreas Mohr, MD PhD - Bremen, Germany

Observers surgical sessions, May 27, 2008
- Claus Eckardt, MD - Frankfurt am Main, Germany www.eckardt-frankfurt.de
- Tillmann Eckert, MD - Frankfurt am Main, Germany www.eckardt-frankfurt.de
- Philip Maier, MD - Freiburg, Germany
- Mario Dhooge, MD - Helmond, The Netherlands

Wetlab course participants May 13/14, 2008
- William C. Ashford, MD - Jackson, USA
- Marshall Bowes Hamill, MD - Houston, USA
- Ewan Craig, MD - Shrewsbury, United Kingdom
- Mauro Fioretto, MD PhD - Milan, Italy
- Oganes Oganesyan, MD - Moscow, Russia
- Ramin Salouti, MD - Shiraz, Iran
- Richard Schulze, Jr MD - Savannah, USA http://www.schulze-eye.com/

Observer consulting hours, April 16, 2008
- Martin Hermel, MD - Aachen, Germany www.ukaachen.de/content/folder/1019008/1

Wetlab course participants April 8/9, 2008
- Muawyah Al Bdour, MD PhD - Amman, Jordan
- Ana Boto de los Bueis, MD - Madrid, Spain
- Benedicte Putting, MD PhD - Haarlem, The Netherlands
- Jerome C. Vryghem, MD - Brussels, Belgium

Wetlab course participants March 18/19, 2008
- Jaime Etxebarria, MD - Bilbao, Spain
- Beatrijs Foets, MD PhD - Leuven, Belgium
- Alexander Podskochy, MD - Stockholm, Sweden www.sankterik.se
- Chad Rostron, MD - London, United Kingdom
- Pavel Stodulka, MD PhD - Zlin, Czech Republic www.goc.cz

Wetlab course participants February 12/13, 2008
- Jan van der Hoek, MD - North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
- Jan Hendrik Weyer, MD - Polokwane, South Africa

Observers surgical sessions, January 22, 2008
- Frank Ruseler - Zuidland, The Netherlands 
- Dominique Dumas - France

Observer surgical sessions, November 10-20, 2007
- Sergio Kandelman, MD - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil www.skopus.com.br

Observer surgical sessions, July 11-18, 2007
- Sergio Kandelman, MD - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil www.skopus.com.br


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