ISD-DE Events History Details
1984
1st Congress ISD, Texas, USA
The Inaugural Meeting of the then ISD was held in Lubbock, Texas USA, organized by Dr. Frank Holly with Founding President, Prof Juan Murube.
Both Frank Holly and Juan Murube were instrumental in creating the ISD-DE. A number of the early ISD-DE people attended Frank’s 1984 meeting in Lubbock Texas, and wrote chapters for his book entitled “The Preocular Tear Film in Health, Disease, and Contact Lens Wear.” The Lubbock proceeding was published in 1986, almost 1,000 pages long, and contains a section on the history of dacryology.
1987
2nd Congress, Budapest
The Second Meeting was held in Budapest, Hungary with Dr Andras Berta the Congress Organizer and President.
1990
3rd Congress, Amsterdam
The Third Meeting was held in Amsterdam, Netherlands with Dr Nikolaas Van Haeringen as the Congress Organizer and President.
1993
4th Congress, Madrid
Prof Juan Murube who has been a leading protagonist in ISD, became the President for a second time and the 4th ISD meeting held in Madrid, Spain.
1994
Satellite Meeting not a Congress
A meeting was held in Toronto in June,1994, with a two-day Oculoplastic satellite symposium held at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, chaired and organized by Dr. Jeff Hurwitz. This symposium was comprised of sessions by the International Society of Orbital Disorders, the Canadian Society of Oculoplastic Surgeons, and the International Society of Dacryology(as it was then called). Drs. Miglior and Spinelli from Italy, helped Dr. Hurwitz with the Dacryology component of the meeting, which included both Dry Eye and Lacrimal Excretory lectures, and panel discussions, as well as a dinner at the top of the CN tower.
Strictly Speaking this was not an Official numbered Congress
1996
Meeting but not a Congress, Stockholm
Dr Gysbert Van Setten hosted a Meeting of the ISD in Stockholm, Sweden.
1999
5th Congress, Jerusalem
Officially the 5th Congress was in Jerusalem, Israel with Dr Shabtay Dikstein as the Congress Organizer and Gysbert van Setten was the President. Juan Murube proposed merging ISD with TFOS (run by David Sullivan) but they opted to remain apart.
2002
6th Congress, New Orleans
John Tiffany became the President for the 6th Congress of the ISD which was held in New Orleans, USA. This was a very small meeting and four people attended – John, Juan Murube, Roger Beuerman, and a postdoctoral fellow (who was the Secretary). It was held in Roger’s office at LSU (before he left for Singapore).
2005
7th Congress, Madrid
Prof Juan Murube became the President for the third time and the 7th Congress was held again in Madrid, Spain.
2005 was a pivotal year in the history of the society, with formal linking of the wet and dry eye sides of the society in order to represent the two most important inputs of the society, oculoplastic and lacrimal specialists with the ocular surface and corneal specialists.
The society’s name then became the “International Society of Dacryology and Dry Eye”.
This was known as the ISD&DE
8th Congress
Nobody can recall this. We are unsure when or where this was held as numbering next jumped to 9th. We are unable to change the subsequent Congress Numbering and are still asking Past presidents to recall..
2008
9th Congress, Instanbul
The 9th Congress of the ISD&DE was held in Istanbul, Turkey and Dr Suat Hayri Ugurbas was the Congress Organizer and President.
2011
10th Congress, Manila
Prof Reynaldo Javate was the Congress Organizer and President at the 10th meeting in Manila, Philippines.
2014
11th Congress, Naples
The 11th Congress was held in Naples, Italy 2014 with Dr Lelio Baldeschi as the Congress Organizer and President.
2017
12th Congress, Athens
The 12th Congress was held in Athens, Greece and Dr Nikos Trakos was the Congress Organizer and President.
2020
13th Congress in London did not go ahead
Organiser Jane Olver. Cancelled due to COVID-19 restrictions on Meetings in 2020.
The NUH ISDDE SSOPRS Dacryology & Dry Eyes Symposium, Singapore, October 20th – 22nd October 2022, organised by Dr Gangadharar Sundar.
This Symposium is being retrospectively recognised as a substitute 13th ISD-DE Meeting. However, since Jane Olver had already been elected by the Members in 2017 to hold the 2020 Meeting, she went on to do the 2020 meeting in London in 2024.
2024
14th Congress (delayed), London
14th ISD-DE Meeting, organised by Jane Olver, who then became President at the AGM.
Dr Kadi Palumaa was elected by the Members to run the 2026 meeting, and we changed from triennial to biennial meetings.
To learn more about ISD-DE watch:
“The History of the International Society of Dacryology and Dry Eye” or its Podcast, as Presented by the Ms Jane Olver, President-Elect of ISD-DE, at The NUH ISDDE SSOPRS Dacryology & Dry Eyes Symposium, Singapore, October 20th – 22nd October 2022, organised by Dr Gangadharar Sundar.