TFOS has organized a special meeting of the Latin American TFOS Ambassadors. This meeting, which will occur in Panama City this May, has two goals: first, to address the unmet needs for the management (e.g. diagnosis & treatment) of ocular surface diseases in their country/region, as well as what the Ambassadors perceive as short and long term scientific/clinical solutions; and second, to create a report for publication in a peer-reviewed journal.
Participants will include TFOS Ambassadors from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela and, tentatively, the Caribbean.
This Latin American TFOS Ambassadors meeting will be the second such event. The first was the European TFOS Ambassadors’ meeting in 2019 in Rome, Italy. That report was published in The Ocular Surface:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1542012420300847?via%3Dihub
TFOS thanks Bausch+Lomb and Laboratorios Sophia, both Gold Sponsors, for their generous support of this meeting.
