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It is a great honour to welcome you all to the EUNOS 2022 website and to introduce the program for the meeting.

Originally this meeting was planned for 2021 and in late 2020 we had to take the difficult decision to postpone this in the hope of being able to hold a Face-to-Face meeting in 2022. That hope has now come to fruition. EUNOS 2022 will be a Face-to-Face meeting with an online presence for those who are unable to travel to the venue. Although aimed at those able to attend, it will be a true Hybrid meeting, open to full participation for those attending virtually.

The organising committees are pleased to be able to showcase all that Birmingham has to offer to those in attendance. Birmingham will be in the final throes of gearing up to the Commonwealth Games to be held in the late summer 2022. There have been significant infrastructure improvements and we will benefit from these. Birmingham is also a major cultural centre with one of the best small fine art galleries outside of London, located on the University Campus, The Barber Institute. It has a fascinating collection of Impressionist and Grand Master paintings displayed in an intimate setting. If your preference is for Victorian rebels, the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in the city centre, has the most important collection of Pre-Raphaelite art anywhere in the world. Closer to home, again on the University Campus, is Winterborne House and Garden. Built in the Arts and Crafts style for the pioneering housing reformer John Nettleford and his family, it is both a museum to the Nettlefords and a Botanical Garden housing over 6000 different plant species. It will be glorious in June.

I hope that none of this will take you away from the significant scientific program that we have arranged for you. Spread over four days, there will be something for everyone. We will start with a day of didactic and interactive teaching, aimed at those interested in or starting  their career in Neuro-ophthalmology. We will have literally hundreds of years of experience on hand to help kindle or rekindle your interest in Neuro-ophthalmology.

The following three days will bring all of us up to date on developments in Neuro-ophthalmology in Europe and further afield. We have lined up a stimulating mixture of Symposia, Updates, Free Papers and Debates to inform and educate all of us. New this year will be the President’s session, in which our President will invite speakers on topics of his choosing to compliment the other sessions at the meeting.

On behalf of all the organising committees, it is my pleasure to encourage you to come to Birmingham in June to experience all that we have to offer. We all look forward to seeing you.

Tim Matthews

Chair of EUNOS 2022 Organising Committee