Rotterdam Eye Hospital (Netherlands)

In the Rotterdam Eye Hospital Jan van Meurs is director of the residency program, recently scientific advisor of the research institute, and in 2005 was appointed professor in Ophthalmology, specifically vitreoretinal surgery, at the Erasmus University. His research and experience in Ophthalmology spans across Australia, Indonesia, Curaçao, and USA. He has been involved in a cataract charity program and more recently a vitreoretinal cooperation program in Indonesia. Jan helps organizing the annual meeting of the Dutch Ophthalmological Society and is board member of EURETINA, and he was elected President in 2016. He combines clinical work with research interests in retinal detachments, PVR, pharmacokinetics, RPE-transplantation and endophthalmitis