ESCRS Peter Barry Fellowship 2020

Applications are open for the Peter Barry Fellowship 2020. This Fellowship commemorates the immense contribution made by the late Peter Barry to ophthalmology and to the ESCRS. 

The Fellowship of €60,000 is to allow a trainee to work abroad at a centre of excellence for clinical experience or research in the field of cataract and refractive surgery, anywhere in the world, for 1 year. 

Applicants must be a European trainee ophthalmologist, 40 years of age or under on the closing date for applications and have been an ESCRS trainee member for 3 years by the time of starting the Fellowship.

The Fellowship will be awarded at the ESCRS Annual Congress in Amsterdam in October 2020, to start in 2021.

To apply, please submit the following:

• A detailed up-to-date CV
• A letter of intent of 1-2 pages, outlining which centre you wish to attend and why
• A letter of recommendation from your current Head of Department
• A letter from your potential host institution, indicating that they will accept you if successful

Closing date for applications is 1 May 2020

Applications and queries should be sent to Danielle Maher at Danielle.Maher@escrs.org

23^rd March 2020