OPEN DAY EYE FLOATERS
(4˚ Scott Geller Day)
ROME, October, 12/13/14, 2015
PRIMAVISTA, Ophthalmic Center, G.B. De Rossi street, 22, Rome
For reservation call 0141.721.427
On the occasion of participation in the VII˚ International Ophthalmic and Ophthalmoplastic Training Courses from October 7 to 10 in Acireale and the National Meeting of AIMO on 15 and 16 October in Rome, Scott Geller, Feike Gerbrandy and Carlo Orione, will be exceptionally together, from 12 to 14 October in Rome, to visit those who suffer from floaters and, if necessary, to treat them with the laser to vaporize the Floaters in the Vitreous.
Scott Geller (Fort Myers, USA), a Board Certified Ophthalmologist, pioneered and perfected laser treatment of eye floaters. He have founded the World’s premier Eye Floater Specialty Center: The South Florida Eye Foundation / South Florida Eye Clinic has been treating eye floaters for 27 years. Dr. Geller has the largest and longest series of patients treated with laser in the world.
He presented his first series of successful cases at the International Congress of Ophthalmology in Singapore 1989, and has presented his data to other Ophthalmologists at conferences in the US, Europe, and Asia about treating eye floaters with laser.
Since 2012 he participates every year at the International Congress organized in Italy by dr. C. Orione and, after the Meeting, stops in Italy a few days for the Open Day where, with C. Orione, visit and treats patients with floaters.
Feike Gerbrandy (Amsterdam, Netherlands), has specialized in the laser treatment of vitreous floaters. He started Floaterlaser Amsterdam Eye Clinic, a clinic dedicated to this treatment. In 2011 he joined forces with Opsis Eye Hospital in Amstelveen, a suburb of Amsterdam.
Many international patients have found their way to dr Gerbrandy in Amstelveen.
Dr Geller and dr Gerbrandy founded the Vitreous Floaters Study Group.
The members of this group are all vitreous floaters specialists. The purpose of the VFSG is to cooperate in research and establish guidelines for treatment.
In 2012 it was transformed into the International Society of Vitreous Laser Surgery (ISVLS), of which he is a Board Member with Scott Geller, James Johnson and Carlo Orione, with the aim to work closely and do research.
Carlo Orione (Nizza Monferrato/Genova, Italy), the only Italian member of ISVLS, began, first in Italy, in 2009 to take an interest and care for laservitreolysis to vaporize floaters and, to date, has performed more than 1,000 laser treatments (https://www.orioneye.com/2445-leggi-i-commenti.html).
In 2011 he has traveled to Florida by Scott Geller to perfect the technique.
Since 2012 he organizes every year an Open Day in Italy to visit and treat patients suffering from floaters with Scott Geller.
From 2013 it is provided, first in Italy, the new Ellex Yag laser for vitreolysis.
In March 2013 it was interviewed on Viscochirurgia, a medical journal distributed to all italian ophthalmologists, to inform and explain the technique to the colleagues.
In October, 2013, in Amsterdam, at the European Congress ESCRS, he was invited as the only Italian expert, at the International Forum to outline the guidelines for laservitreolysis.
He drafted the Informed Consent for laservitreolysis approved in the month of July 2013 by AIMO as consent of reference for all italian ophthalmologists.
Reports presented to Ophthalmologists Conferences:
December 15, 2012, Cosenza: “YAG laser for the treatment of Floaters, three years’ experience.”
July 13, 2013, Bari: “Floaters Treatments with Yag laser.”
September 6, 2013, Elba: “Yag Laser Treatment of floaters” (Symposium held with Scott Geller with live treatment).
October 4, 2014, Taormina: “Laservitreolysis: materials and methods.”
May 16, 2015, Milan, during the Congress of the Italian Society of Ophthalmology (SOI): “Laservitreolysis: the point after 6 years of treatment for floaters.”
October 1, 2015, Padova, during the Congress of Italian Society of Legal Ophthalmology (SIOL), Course 2 with D. Micochero: “Yag Laser Vitreolysis: scientific and medicolegal aspects”
October 10, 2015, Acireale, Roundtable with S. Geller, F. Gerbrandy and C. Orione: “Yag Laser Vitreolysis: state of the art”
October 16, 2015, in Rome, as part of the annual Congress of the Italian Association of Ophthalmologists (AIMO), which he is Board Member, he will organize and direct a course of three hours, entitled: “Diagnostic and therapeutic approach to patients refer floaters “.
Visits and any treatments will be held in Rome at the
Primavista Ophthalmic Center, G.B. De Rossi street, 22
only on Monday 12, Tuesday 13 and Wednesday 14 October 2015
For more information please write to this mail address: info@orioneye.com
For reservation please call 0141.721.427