DJ EQS-News: Dr. Joern S. Joergensen was elected as a member of the International Intra-Ocular Implant Club (IIIC)
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Dr. Joern S. Joergensen was elected as a member of the International
Intra-Ocular Implant Club (IIIC)
EuroEyes (1846.HK) is proud to announce that Its founder and CEO, Dr. Joern
S. Joergensen, was elected as a member of the International Intra-Ocular
Implant Club (IIIC) during the annual meeting of IIIC on October 4, 2020.
The International Intra-Ocular Implant Club (IIIC) was founded in London in
1966 by Sir Harold Ridley. Dr. Ridley was the first to successfully implant
an artificial lens inside the human eye in 1950. His brilliant ideas were
not cherished by his colleagues for many years, but Dr. Ridley would not be
deterred and lived to see the tremendous success of the procedure he had
pioneered. In 2000, he was knighted by the Queen of England. Today,
intraocular lens implantation is the most frequently performed surgical
procedure worldwide and has saved countless numbers of patients from
blindness.
Sir Ridley founded the International Intra-Ocular Implant Club to promote
research and collaboration in the field of intraocular lens implantation
worldwide; encourage the free and unhindered global exchange of ideas
concerning intraocular lens implantation; provide an international forum to
advance the understanding of intraocular lens implantation; globally promote
intraocular lens implantation surgery and standardization of quality and
availability; raise awareness of implantology globally among medical
providers and the public; and to sponsor and advise related national
societies as they develop.
Membership to the International Intra-Ocular Implant Club is restricted to a
total of 250 active members worldwide. EuroEyes is proud to announce that
Dr. Joergensen was elected as an active member.
Dr. Joergensen is a true pioneer of cataract surgery and refractive lens
surgery. He introduced ambulatory cataract surgery in Hamburg, Germany, as
early as 1990 on a large scale. He also is a pioneer of LASIK surgery and
started to use LASIK in 1994, long before it became mainstream surgery. He
was among the first to adopt multifocal IOLs as a routine treatment of
presbyopia and has for many years implanted the largest number of Zeiss
trifocal IOLs worldwide. Dr. Joergensen was also a very early adaptor of the
Visian ICL, an intraocular lens that corrects high myopia. Dr. Joergensen
founded EuroEyes in 1994. EuroEyes went public on the Hong Kong Stock
Exchange in October 2019 and currently operates 27 centers worldwide
(Germany: 15; China: 7; Denmark: 5).
About EuroEyes International Eye Clinic Limited (1846.HK)
EuroEyes was established in 1993 and is one of the leading brands in the
vision correction industry that combines German ophthalmology excellence and
27 years of experience with individualised customer-care. EuroEyes is one of
the few eye clinic groups with a far-reaching geographical coverage, with
operations in Germany, Denmark and the PRC. The Group's vision correction
services include (i) refractive laser surgery (which includes ReLEx SMILE
and FemtoLASIK); (ii) phakic lens (ICL) surgery; (iii) lens exchange surgery
(which includes the monofocal and trifocal lens exchange surgery) and (iv)
others (which include PRK/LASEK and ICRS implantation).
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