APACRS Travel Grant

2023 APACRS Travel Grant Visual

Application Criteria

  1. Applicant must be an ophthalmology trainee/fellow below 35 years old and must not have previously received APACRS Travel Grants.
  2. Applicant must be an ophthalmology trainee/fellow from country with regional society affiliated to the APACRS.
  3. Each travel grant is worth up to US$1,200, comprising reimbursement of US$1,000 to defray travel & accommodation expenses and US$200 for meeting registration at 1st tier early bird rate for trainees and fellows. Reimbursement will be paid after the meeting.
  4. Each affiliated local society will review applications from its own country and nominate up to two (2) candidates.
  5. Applications must be submitted online by Thursday, 1 December 2022, 23:59hrs (UTC +8) together with applicants’ abstracts, brief CV and letter of verification of traineeship from head of department. Late submissions will not be accepted.
  6. Successful applicants whose abstracts have been accepted for presentation as Free Paper, ePosters or Videos for the 2023 APACRS Film Festival must attend the meeting in person. Those with Free Paper presentation/s must present their paper/s in person at the assigned Free Paper session/s.
  7. Only successful applicants will be notified via email and results will be posted on the APACRS meeting website at www.apacrs2023.org.

APACRS Affiliated Regional Societies

  • Bangladesh Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgery (BSCRS)
  • Chinese Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (CSCRS)
  • Indonesian Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgery (INASCRS)
  • Intraocular Implant & Refractive Society of India (IIRSI)
  • Japanese Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgery (JSCRS)
  • Korean Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgery (KSCRS)
  • Malaysian Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (MSCRS)
  • Philippine Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgery (PSCRS)
  • Thai Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (THSCRS)
  • Vietnam Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (VSCRS)

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Recipients of the 2020 APACRS Travel Grant

Anissa Nindhyatriayu Witjaksono

Universitas Indonesia Hospital, Indonesia

Ayako Sawaki

JCHO Chukyo Hospital, Japan

Basil Anwar

National Institute of Ophthalmology and Hospital, Bangladesh

Elizabeth Aileen Giller

Philippine General Hospital, Philippines

Jongyeop Park

Samsung Medical Center, South Korea

Jung Ho Suk

Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, South Korea

Korn Kanjanarajit

Rajavithi Hospital, Thailand

Kukuh Prasetyo

JEC Anwari @ Purwokerto, Indonesia

Lin Fu

Wenzhou Medical University, China

Mai Lan Anh

Vietnam National Insitute of Opthalmology, Vietnam

Maria Isabel Nabor – Umali

Philippine General Hospital, Philippines

Md. Farhad Bin Siddique

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU), Bangladesh

Mithun Thulasidas

Centre for Sight Eye Institute, India

Natsuko Shima

Nippon Medical School Musashi-Kosugi Hospital, Japan

Nguyen Thi Ngoc Anh

Vietnam National Eye Hospital, Vietnam

Raghav Malik

Centre for Sight, India

Rokhsanda Rehnuma

Bangladesh Eye Trust Hospital, Bangladesh

Soundarya B

The Eye Foundation, India

Thanaporn Kritfuangfoo

Ophthalmology Department, Ramathibodi Hospital, Thailand

Tri Wahyu

Cicendo National Eye Hospital, Universitas Padjadjaran, Bandung, Indonesia

Waraluck Supawatjariyakul

King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital, Thailand

Yi Jae Hyuk

Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, South Korea

Yinhui Yu

Eye Center, Second Affiliated Hospital of Medical College, Zhejiang University, China

Zhaochuan Liu

Beijing Tongren Hospital, China