Egyptian Society for the Glaucomas

Contact information
Moustafa Nassar
2, Gawad Hosni
Bab el Louk
11111 Cairo
EGYPT
Tel.: (202) 2268 3783
Fax.: (202) 2268 3783
E-mail: glaucoma@link.net
Web site: http://www.glaucoma-eg.org
  

Board
Ahmed AboueleineinPresident
Mohamed Ibrahim AbdallaPast President
Ali KhalifaPast President
Moustafa NassarSecretary
ADEL FARAG Treasurer
Abdalla ElSawyVice President
Adel AbdelshafikGeneral member
Ahmad KhalilGeneral member
ZEINAB OSMAN General member
Nabil SabryGeneral member
Ayman El-ShiatyCongress organizer
  

Organizational structure
Founding date (year) 2000
The society has statutes (bylaws) Yes
The statutes address financial accountability* Yes
* Is it clear how the flow of income and expense (including meetings) is and which officer or committee is responsible?  
The board members are elected
New members of the board are added by cooptation** No
** Cooptation means officers are appointed by the leadership without an election process involving the total membership  
The term of functioning for members of the board is 3 year(s)

Membership
The number of members of our society is approximately 736
Our society has an annual printed report No
Criteria for Membership
  1. Members must have had formal specialist training
    (i.e. established glaucoma fellowship training) in glaucoma
 No
  1. Members must have had informal specialist training (i.e. all forms of training outside established glaucoma fellowships) in glaucoma

    If not specialist / generalist ratio
 No
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  1. Members have a manifest interest in glaucoma as shown by publications
 Yes
  1. Members have a manifest interest in glaucoma as shown by the percentage of glaucoma patients seen (or by other criteria)
 No
  1. Members have expressed interest in glaucoma
 Yes
  1. Everyone can be a member without further qualification
 Yes
  1. We use other criteria
 No

Mission statement/goals
The E.S.G. is a non-governmental Society interested in the field of glaucoma as an educational body, both for doctors and patients in order to raise the standard of knowledge about this disease and improve ways of treatment by encouraging the pharmaceutical companies to sponsor the meetings and to supply the market with the necessary and suitable recommendations for the appropriate medications to be made available to general hospitals.

Liaisons with other organizations
Liaisons with a general ophthalmological society Yes
Liaisons with other organizations Yes

Guidelines
Code of practice on society - Industry relationships available No
Society guidelines on diagnosis and treatment of glaucoma available No
Using guidelines made by an other organization 0

Miscellaneous
Research foundation No
On-line discussion forum (e.g. AGS-net) No

Society program
The Society program*** contains: organizing glaucoma meetings Yes
*** Program = total of activities of the Glaucoma Society  
The Society program contains: form of publication Yes
The Society program contains: other initiatives No
Current initiatives -
Are society-sponsored fellowships or research grants available? No

Meeting
Meeting frequency Once to twice a year
Time of year begin of November, two days
Meeting attendance
  • No. of foreign delegates
 20
  • No. of local delegates
 400
The ratio of glaucoma specialists to generalists that attend the meeting is Yes
The meeting has oral paper sessions Yes
The meeting has poster sessions Yes
The meeting has discussion sessions Yes
Presentation / discussion time ratio
Presentations are on original research
Presentations are updates / reviews
Presentations are both original research and updates / reviews Yes, 1 : 1
The meetings are mono – sponsored No
The meetings are multi -  sponsored Yes
Financial benefits from the meeting go to the Society Yes
Financial benefits from the meeting go to individuals No
Financial benefits from the meeting go to others No

Glaucoma Patient Organizations
Our country has a Glaucoma Patient Organization 0
Additional remarks