Dear colleagues,

Thank you for another great year of the Zlín Ophthalmology Festival, which took place for the sixteenth time this year.

The congress was graced with the presence of the “Queen of Glass and Steel” Eva Jiřičná, who designed the Zlín Congress Centre where the event was held, and Dr. Stephen Slade from Huston, USA, to whom we presented the Lifetime Achievement Award in Ophthalmology.

Also thanks to all the speakers for their high quality and very enriching presentations.

I hope you enjoyed both the professional program of the congress and the accompanying drumming performance by Dominik Urik and I look forward to seeing you again at the Prague Ophthalmology Festival on November 3, 2023.

Yours sincerely,

Dr. Pavel Stodulka, Ph.D., FEBOS-CR

Chief eye surgeon of GEMINI Eye Clinic, Czech Republic

AECOS Europe president

ESCRS board member