Welcome

Cathy Kowalewski
COO Wilmer Eye Institute – Johns Hopkins
Member of the Board – WAEH

Maaike van Zuilen
Global Lead – WAEH

With a special welcome by Anders Boman, Chair of the WAEH

Mr. Anders Boman – St. Erik Eyehospital, Stockholm, Sweden
Eye Center of Excellence
In September 2020, St. Erik Eye Hospital moved to new premises. Relocating to the rapidly growing life science area in Hagastaden will give us even greater opportunities to provide our patients with Sweden’s best ophthalmology care. The proximity to Karolinska University Hospital and Karolinska Institutet will contribute to a more extensive exchange of knowledge and resources within healthcare, research and education. The vision is to create an Eye Centre of Excellence in Hagastaden in order to stimulate care, research and development within the field of ophthalmology. This can be accomplished by a close collaboration with other players within the fields of healthcare, academia and business. Read more

Keynote – White Arkitekter

• Hans Forsmark, Architect Partner: About the new building of St. Erik Eye Hospital 
  
  
• Caroline Varnauskas, Architect Partner: About the interior architecture of Moorfields Oriel
  Introduced by Miss Dhanes Thomas FRCOphth FRCSEd MD – Moorfields Eye Hospital
  
  Oriel: Vertical Integration for excellence in eye services

It is broadly accepted in modern health care delivery that flexible, resourceful and innovative building design is likely to create an environment for innovation to flourish.

In this presentation we wish to share the roadmap towards creating a bespoke, dedicated eye hospital facility in central London. Excellence in eyecare will not only be incorporated into a world class, patient centred structural and operational design, but it will be integrally engineered around a detailed analysis of current and future clinical, research, educational, economic and operational drivers.

This presentation will describe the key stages in identifying the core essentials by which the deliverables and desirable elements were derived, together with the identification of constraints, with specific focus on:
1) Patient and Staff Consultation to inform the design process
2) Challenges orthodoxies by creating vertical integration of clinical, research and education in eye care, thereby optimizing the opportunities for “bench-to-bedside” translational medicine and early access for patients to new therapies
3) The benefits of shared space in providing opportunities for staff and service integration together with cost saving in communal facilities.

We believe that processes involved in this project can be used to inform the design and planning of future eye hospital projects.

Presentations by members

• 13.45
  Prof.dr. Carroll Webers – University Eye Clinic Maastricht UMC, Maastricht, The Netherlands
  Eye on Design: Building and designing an office for your ophthalmological practice
  The University Eye Clinic Maastricht is based in a seven storeys high ‘Eye Tower’, located on the grounds of the Maastricht UMC. This is one building in which unsurpassed eye care – a unique combination of routine, basic eye care and highly specialized care – education, teaching and scientific research is combined.

  In this presentation Professor Carroll Webers, head and chairman of the clinic, will talk about the creative process of designing an eye clinic and will present some highlights of the building.
  
  The University Clinic for Ophthalmology Maastricht UMC is responsible for the basic academic and eye care in the service area of ​​the Maastricht UMC +. Ophthalmic practices in the Atrium Medical Center Parkstad Heerlen at the sites, Brunssum and Kerkrade are part of the University Clinic of Ophthalmology, and the Polyclinic Ophthalmology Sint Truiden (Belgium). At the University Clinic of Ophthalmology 20 ophthalmologists, 24 optometrists work in training, three senior researchers and a varying number of PhD students. They are supported by approximately 40 employees.

• 13.55
  Mrs. Kristy Davidson, Mrs. Deborah Phillips, Mr. Ed Holman, Johns Hopkins Wilmer Eye Institute, Baltimore, USA
  Since 1925, the Wilmer Eye Institute has been leading the way in diagnosis and management of complex medical and surgical eye disease. Wilmer provides solutions that transform medical outcomes through unparalleled collaboration and innovation. With the inception of satellite clinics in 1995, Wilmer has been able to expand hospital care into a community setting.
  
  
• 14.05
  Dr. Abdulaziz Ibrahim AlRajhi, CEO, King Khaled Eye Specialist Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
  The King Khaled Eye Specialist Hospital (KKESH), a 250-bed hospital inaugurated in 1983, is the largest ophthalmic tertiary referral center in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, operated by the Ministry of Health (MOH). The hospital provides quality tertiary ophthalmic care to the patients it serves and promotes the delivery of Kingdom-wide ophthalmic care through its outreach, educational, and research programs. For more than two decades, KKESH has been recognized for excellence in its delivery of ophthalmic patient care, for its strong educational programs (including continuing medical education seminars and symposia, and training of ophthalmology residents and subspecialty fellows and other allied healthcare personnel), and its highly successful research programs.
  During the WAEH meeting Dr. Abdulaziz Ibrahim AlRajhi will share knowledge and experience about smart clinics, Zero Water Waste – Recycled water and the KKESH Indoor Navigation System.
  
  
• 14.15
  Mr. Rick Seefeldt – Koret Eye Institute, Wayne and Gladys Valley Center for Vision, UCSF Health, San Francisco, USA
  Rick Seefeldt, MHA, FACHE, Director of the Koret Eye Institute at University of California, San Francisco (top 10 US News in Eye Hospitals), will present on their new $200 million eye institute design and launch in 2020. Emphasis will be placed on modern eye center design and architecture, state of the art construction and technology enabled patient care and services. Q&A will be provided to enable best insights from this session.
  
  

Panel discussion

WAEH Project Enucleation – Phase II: Patient communications – Prof. Dr. Nelson, Kellogg Eye Center – U.S.A.

Wrap up

Member Meeting

During the Member Meeting the members of the WAEH review the annual report 2020, look at the finances, talk about the activities of 2022-2023 and many more topics.

If you are a member of the WAEH, you will have received an email with needed agenda and documents.

Did not receive the agenda? Please email Maaike van Zuilen: maaike.vanzuilen@waeh.org

PLUS: Announcement New Chair 2021 – 2023