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History
Beavrs is the brain child
of Prof David McLeod, Anthony Chignell and Peter Leaver. Their 3
respective fellows were Charley James, David Wong and Paul Jacobs;
they were charged with forming a subspecialty society emphasising
that it could be:
- participatory: everyone
who comes should make a presentation;
- mutually supportive:
the meeting should have a friendly and relaxed atmosphere to encourage
uninhibited exchange;
- informal: the association
did not and still does have any official organisation;
- itinerant: the meeting
should be held in different parts of UK and Eire.
The first meeting was held at Keeble College as a satellite meeting
to the Oxford Congress in July of 1986.
The Alcon Visiting Professor to the University of Liverpool was
started in 1993 and our first invited speaker was Anselm Kampik.
Since then, the visiting lecturers include Alan Gaudric, Peter Weidemann,
Klaus Eckardt, Carl Claes, Klaus Heimann, Michael Trese, Cynthia
Toth, Bernd Kirchhof, and George Williams (not necessarily in that
order).
The first joint meeting between the German Vitreoretinal Society
(Retinologische Gesellschaft) and BEAVRS was held in 1999 at Regensberg.
At this meeting, Prof David McLeod invited our German hosts back
to UK (in 2001). With a slight slippage of timetable, this is where
we are now.
[Oral history by David Wong]
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