Dear Colleagues,

We are very pleased to invite you to the DOG 2017 which will take place from September 28 to October 1, 2017 at the Estrel Convention Center and Hotel Berlin.
The scientific program and session structure will reflect this year’s congress theme, “German Ophthalmology international”. In recent years, every conference of the DOG was presented with a guiding topic at each respective event, thus to give the DOG a new impulse. We are pleased to have found a suitable topic “German Ophthalmology International”, which should cast the scientific and clinical gaze outwards, looking beyond the borders of Germany. The DOG – founded in September 1857 – the world’s oldest ophthalmological society, has always had an early influence on the international development of our field, and does so to this day! One need only think of development of the ophthalmoscope, photocoagulation, capsulorhexis or more recently, retina implants – inventions from Germany, that have changed and brought ophthalmology further, worldwide.
As a tradition, ophthalmologists from Middle Eastern European and Eastern European countries are very welcome to participate in the congress. We thus kindly invite you and your colleagues to participate and would highly appreciate if you forwarded this information to interested ophthalmologists.
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