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TFOS European Ambassador meeting: Unmet needs and future scientic and clinical solutions for ocular surface diseases.

The Ocular Surface Volume 18, Issue 4, October 2020, Pages 936-962

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtos.2020.05.006

TFOS European Ambassador meeting: Unmet needs and future scientic and clinical solutions for ocular surface diseases.

Susan Erickson (a), Amy Gallant Sullivan (b), Stefano Barabino (c), Enesa Begovic (d), Jose M. Benitez-del-Castillo (e), Stefano Bonini (f), José Salgado Borges (g), Vladimir Brzheskiy (h), Nina Bulat (i), Alma Cerim (d), Jennifer P. Craig (j), Valeriu Cușnir (i), Valeriu Cușnir Jr. (i), Vitalie Cușnir (i), Serge Doan (k), Erol Dülger (l), Sarah Farrant (m), Gerd Geerling (n), David Goldblum (o), Sergey Golubev (p), José A.P. Gomes (q), José Manuel González-Méijome (r), Christina N. Grupcheva (s), Ömür Uçakhan Gündüz (t), Jutta Horwath-Winter (u), Fredrik Källmark (v), Nino Karanadze (w), Huda Hajjir Karcic (d), Suvad Karcic (d), Georgios Kontadakis (x), Elisabeth M. Messmer (y), Malgorzata Mrugacz (z), Conor Murphya (a), Olivia E. O'Leary (o), Vitalie Procopciuc (d), Heiko Pultab (ac, ad), Peter Raus (ae), Afsun Şahin (af), Niko Setälä (ag), Adriana Stanila (ah), Dan Mircea Stanila (ah), Tor Paaske Utheim (ai), Jelle Vehof (aj, ak), Piera Versura (al), Edoardo Villani (am), Mark D.P. Willcox (an), James S. Wolsohn (ab), Zbigniew Zagórski (ao), Gunnar Már Zoega (ap), David A. Sullivan (aq), (∗) 

(a) Brookline, MA, USA

(b) TFOS, Boston, MA, USA

(c) Ocular Surface Center and Department of Ophthalmology, Sacco Hospital, Milan University, Milan, Italy

(d) Private Health Institution Polyclinic “Eye” Dr Karcic, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

(e) Complutense University of Madrid and Hospital Clinico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain

(f) Department of Ophthalmology, University of Rome Campus BioMedico, Rome, Italy

(g) Department of Ophthalmology, Private Hospital of Boa Nova & Prof. J. Salgado-Borges Clinic, Porto, Portugal

(h) Department of Ophthalmology, St. Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University, St. Petersburg, Russia

(i) Department of Ophthalmology and Optometry, S Nicolae Testemițanu State University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Chișinău, Moldova

(j) Department of Ophthalmology, The University of Auckland, New Zealand

(k) Ocular Surface Unit, Hôpital Bichat - Fondation A de Rothschild, Paris, France

(l) Department of Ophthalmology Near East University Hospital, VIP Health Clinic Nicosia, Cyprus

(m) Earlam and Christopher Optometrists and Contact Lens Specialists, Taunton, United Kingdom

(n) Department of Ophthalmology, University Hospital Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany

(o) Department of Ophthalmology, University Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

(p) Department of Ophthalmology, Branch of the Military Medical Academy, Moscow, Russia

(q) Dept. of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Federal University of Sao Paulo/Paulista School of Medicine, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil

(r) Optometry and Vision Science, CEORLab - Center of Physics, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

(s) Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Medical University of Varna, Varna, Bulgaria

(t) Cornea and Contact Lens Service & Department of Ophthalmology, Ankara University Medical School, Ankara, Turkey

(u) Dry Eye Unit & Corneal and Cataract Section, Department of Ophthalmology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

(v) Källmark Dry Eye Clinics, Stockholm, Sweden

(w) Department of Eye Diseases, Tbilisi State Medical University, Tbilisi, Georgia

(x) Institute of Vision and Optics, University of Crete, and Department of Ophthalmology, University Hospital of Heraklion, Heraklion, Greece

(y) Department of Ophthalmology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany

(z) Department of Ophthalmology and Eye Rehabilitation, Medical University of Bialystok, Bialystok, Poland

(aa) Department of Ophthalmology, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland School of Medicine and Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

(ab) Ophthalmic Research Group, Aston University, Birmingham, UK

(ac) School of Optometry and Vision Sciences, Cardi  University, Cardi , UK

(ad) Dr Heiko Pult & Optometry and Vision Research, Weinheim, Germany

(ae) Department of Ophthalmology/Eye Surgery, Free University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium af Department of Ophthalmology, Koç University Medical School, Istanbul, Turkey

(ag) Department of Ophthalmology, Central Finland Central Hospital, Jyväskylä, Finland

(ah) Ofta Total Clinic, Faculty of Medicine, University of Lucian Blaga, Ocular Surface Research Center, Sibiu, Romania ai Department of Ophthalmology & Department of Medical Biochemistry, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway

(aj) Section of Academic Ophthalmology, School of Life Course Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine (FoLSM), King's College London, London, UK

(∗) Corresponding author. Schepens Eye Research Institute of Massachusetts Eye and Ear, 20 Staniford St., Boston, MA, 02114, USA.

E-mail address: dasullivan@me.com (D.A. Sullivan).

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Abstract.

The mission of the Tear Film & Ocular Surface Society (TFOS) is to advance the research, literacy, and educational aspects of the scienti c  eld of the tear  lm and ocular surface. Fundamental to ful lling this mission is the TFOS Global Ambassador program. TFOS Ambassadors are dynamic and proactive experts, who help promote TFOS initiatives, such as presenting the conclusions and recommendations of the recent TFOS DEWS IITM, throughout the world. They also identify unmet needs, and propose future clinical and scienti c solutions, for management of ocular surface diseases in their countries. This meeting report addresses such needs and solutions for 25 European countries, as detailed in the TFOS European Ambassador meeting in Rome, Italy, in September 2019.

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