ICO International Basic Science and Clinical Sciences Assessments for Ophthalmologists:

Local Co-ordinators for the Assessments

The International Council of Ophthalmology (ICO) will offer the next International Basic Science Assessment for Ophthalmologists and International Clinical Sciences Assessment on April 10, 2008.

Co-ordinators are appointed for each centre where the Assessment is offered. They oversee the provision of the exam in the various regions and may collect fees.

Listed below are Co-ordinators who have agreed to the publication of their name and e-mail address and may be contacted for application forms and further information about ICO assessments in their area/country.

If you need information about locations not listed below, please contact the ICO Examination Office at:

The Examination Secretary
International Council of Ophthalmology Strangeways,
2 Wort's Causeway Cambridge CB1 8RN
England, UK
Telephone: + 44 (0) 1223 244101
Fax: + 44 (0) 1223 244079
E-mail: assess@icoph.org

Co-ordinator by country

Country	Name	Email address
Afghanistan, Kabul	Dr Roger Dethlefs, FRACS, FRANZCO	rdethlefds@bigpond.com
Argentina, Buenos Aires	Dr Fabio G. Lewkowicz	fabio@sao.org.ar
Austria, Innsbruck	Assistant Professor L. Speicher	Lilly.Speicher@i-med.ac.at
Bahrain, Salmaniya	Dr Ebtisam K Al-Alawi	ealawi@health.gov.bh
Belgium‚ Ghent	Professor Philippe Kestelyn	martine-coppens@ugent.be
Brazil, Sao Paulo	Professor Paulo Augusto de Arruda Mello	ensino@cbo.com.br or ensino.cbo-sp.com.br
Bulgaria, Varna	Dr Christina Grupcheva	c.grupcheva@yahoo.com
Canada, Toronto	Dr E Rand Simpson, MD., FRCSC	Rand.Simpson@uhn.on.ca
Chile, Santiago	Dr Christian Luco F	apochile@entelchile.net
China‚ Beijing	Professor Jialing Zhao	zhaojialing@medmail.com.cn
Ecuador, Quito	Dr Juan Moreno	jmoreno@pi.pro.ec
Finland, Tampere	Professor K Matti Saari, MD	kmsaari@kolumbus.fi
Germany‚ Essen	Professor Dr K-P Steuhl	klaus-peter.steuhl@uk-essen.de
Germany - Tubingen	Associate Professor Dr Manfred Zierhut, MD, PhD	manfred.zierhut@med.uni-tuebingen.de
Ghana, Accra	Dr Stephen Akafo	skakafo@usa.net
Greece‚ Athens	Professor Michael Moshos	mosxos@hellasnet.gr
Hungary, Pécs	Professor Bálint Kovács	balint.kovacs@aok.pte.hu
Hungary, Budapest	Professor Ildikó Süveges	si@szem1.sote.hu
India, Aligarh	Dr B.S. Goel	drbsgoel@yahoo.com
India, Bombay	Professor Dr S A Motwane	shantamotwane@hotmail.com
India, Chandigarh	Professor Amod Gupta	eyepgi@sify.com
India‚ Hyderabad	Dr Prashant Garg	prashant@ivpei.org
India‚ Kerala	Dr J Muthiah, MS (Oph)	erf_6@yahoo.com
India, Madurai	Dr N. Venkatesh Prajna	prajna@aravind.org
India, Mumbai	Dr Saroj Sahdev	sisahdev@hotmail.com
India, Mumbai	Dr S Natajaran	ajeh@vsnl.com
India‚ Nagpur	Dr Aditya Kapil	dradityakapil@gmail.com
India, New Delhi	Dr A.K. Grover	akgrover55@yahoo.com
India, Thrissur	Dr C V Radha Devi
Indonesia, Makassar	Dr H S Muhiddin	habibahsm@yahoo.com
Italy, Rome	Professor Luciano Cerulli	luciano.cerulli@ptvonline.it
Iraq, Baghdad	Dr Tara Barki Rasheed	shure1000@yahoo.com
Japan, Tokyo	Professor Akira Murakami	pbltokyo@med.juntendo.ac.jp
Jordan, Irbid	Professor Mahmoud Al-Salem, FRCS	msalem2000@hotmail.com
Kuwait, Safat	Dr Mubarak Al-Ajmi	dr_ajmi@qualitynet.net
Lebanon, Beirut	Dr Alexandre Assi	alexassi@hotmail.com
Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur	Professor S Selvarajah	profselva@hotmail.com
Mexico, Coyoacan	Dr Daniel Ochoa Contreras	retinalomasaltas@hotmail.com
Mexico‚ Mexico DF	Dr Enrique Graue Wieches	egrauew@yahoo.com
Netherlands, Utecht	Professor J Stilma	J.Stilma@umcutrecht.nl
Nigeria‚ Kaduna	Dr G O Adejor	goadejor@yahoo.com
Nigeria, Lagos	Professor Adeola Onakoya	Adeola_Onakoya@hotmail.com
Oman, Al-Khod	Professor Alexander Bialasiewicz and Dr Archana Thakral	alexander@squ.edu.com and ban82@hotmail.com
Pakistan‚ Islamabad	Professor M Yasin Khan Durrani	ydurrani@yahoo.com
Pakistan, Lahore	Professor M Tayyib, FRCS, FRCOphth	mtayyib@yahoo.com
Pakistan‚ Peshawar	Dr Nasir Saeed	drnasirsaeed@hotmail.com
Peru, Lima	Dr José Antonio  Roca	jaroca@terra.com.pe
Poland, Lublin	Dr Z.F. Zagórski	zbigniew.zagorski@am.lublin.pl
Romania, Bucharest	Dr Daniela Selaru	milophtha@digicom.ro
Spain, Barcelona	Dr Javier Bardavío, FRCSEd. MRCOphth	javier@bardavio.net
Sudan, Khartoum	Dr Samira Mohamed Ibrahim	drsamira75@hotmail.com
Switzerland, Geneva	Professor A B Safran	a.b.safran@hcuge.ch
Switzerland, Lucern	Professor Michael A Thiel, MD, PhD	michael.thiel@ksl.ch
Syria, Damascus	Dr Rida Said	ridasaid@net.sy or said.rida@gmail.com
Taiwan, Taipei	Professor Yu-sung Liang	ysliang@gmail.com
Tanzania, Moshi	Dr Susan Lewallen	slewallen@kcco.net
Turkey, Ankara	Professor Dr M Erol Turaçli	eturacli@hotmail.com
Ukraine, Lugansk	Professor Petrunya Andriy	oko@net.lg.ua
United Arab Emirates, Dubai	Dr Hassan Sabry, FRCS	magrabid@emirates.net.ae
U.S.A.	Dr Joseph Ortiz	jmo786@comcast.net
Yemen, Sana’a	Dr Ahmed Al-Shabooti	Shbo@y.net.ye or aalshabooti@yahoo.com
Yugoslavia, Serbia	Professor Slobodanka Latinovic, MD, PhD	slatinns@eunet.yu

For More Information

Also see the sections of the Eye Site on the Basic Science Assessment and the Clinical Sciences Assessment.

For additional details and application forms, please contact the Examination Office.

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Also see:

• ICO International Basic Science Assessment for Ophthalmologists
  
  
• ICO International Clinical Sciences Assessment for Ophthalmologists