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Dear Colleagues and Friends,
I warmly welcome you to the EEBA web-site. As the new President of the European Eye Bank Association, I am greatly honoured to accept this responsibility and I would like to thank the Members for giving me the opportunity to work for the benefit of the Association. As you know it is not an easy task to follow in the footsteps of our illustrious previous Presidents: Prof. Niels Ehlers, Dr. Diego Ponzin and Prof. Vincent Borderie; and I publicly thank them for the contribution they have made to the advancement of the Association.
Given that the world of science and knowledge is in constant evolution, EEBA will surely need to make some changes in its activity as well, in order to maintain its role as the leading European society in the field of eye banking. The Committee, being aware of this necessity, has already proposed some important changes to our activities and Rules, which were opened for discussion at the last Business Meeting. My personal view of the action-points that would improve the work of EEBA in the following years has already been presented to the Committee. However, since the voice of all Members is highly appreciated, we would welcome your feedback and suggestions to this programme, so that we can really work together as a "team" for a better future of eye banking in Europe.
Program for the next Presidency:
1. To improve the exchange of ocular tissue among EEBA eye banks in order to maximise the number of grafts in Europe (both EU and non-EU countries); namely to highlight the availability of surplus tissue on a web-site and to enable the surgeon or eye-bank to "seek out" donor tissue for a specific patient.
The Association would not, of course, assume any responsibility for the tissue exchange; its web-site would only be utilized as an information point where those "in need" of tissue could be put in touch with those "with surplus".
2. To set up regular EEBA "training courses" (which can be done "on site in the Member eye bank" or organised as formal courses during the Annual Meeting).
3. To increase EEBA membership by improving links with doctors (surgeons, residents, and ophthalmologists from corneal departments) and technicians that aren't already members.
4. To organize workshops/courses at the main Ophthalmology Meetings - SOE, ESCRS, EVER, AAO etc.
5. To issue printed booklets with information regarding EEBA and its aims/services and distribute them in European hospitals in order to increase the public awareness of the importance of the EEBA.
6. To collect more funds in order to be "more operative" (increase number of members, open donation-site on a web-page, include advertisements of pharmaceutical companies in the EEBA booklet).
7. Finish all revisions of the EEBA Rules and get the Members approval/rejection by electronic voting (i.e. not to wait a whole year until the next Business Meeting in January 2011).
8. To provide "professional opinion" of the EEBA Committee as to whether a newly opened Member eye bank adheres to the EEBA Standards (if an eye-bank asks for such a confirmation!).
9. To award Eye Bank Technician with a certified status (upon completion of an EEBA course and a written exam).
I can highly recommend, for those of you who are not yet an EEBA Member, to consider becoming an active member of this wonderful society. You will surely have real professional and scientific benefit by joining the Association, and vice-versa as the EEBA will become a stronger and better Association with each new individual contribution.
Please do not hesitate to contact me, or our Secretariat (admin@europeaneyebanks.org), with any comments or suggestion regarding EEBA.
With best regards,
Prof. Iva Dekaris, MD, PhD