Asociación de Investigación en Visión y Oftalmologia (AIVO)
Background
Established in December 2006 in Buenos Aires, AIVO's members are ophthalmologists and academic researchers from Argentina,Paraguay, Uruguay and Chile. AIVO hosts a multidisciplinary clinical and basic science meeting each year. AIVO became an International Chapter Affiliate on May 5, 2007.
Mission
To foster communication between Latin American eye researchers and to promote vision science among Latin American clinicians.
Membership
- Membership is open to individuals around the globe who are interested in eye and vision research in Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, Chile.
- AIVO members use an exclusive AIVO ARVOConnect community — an online forum for collaboration: Access here
2024 update
- The ARVO grant funding was used for a researcher to attend the 2024 ARVO Annual Meeting, for educational scientifc events, maintenance of the webinar series, and to organize and participate in the AIVO research symposium at the Argentine Congress of Ophthalmology that was held in April 2024 in Buenos Aires. It was also used to send AIVO representatives to regional ophthalmology events in other parts of Argentina, such as the Litoral(Santa Fe). This was done because AIVO does not have many clinician members, and the hope is to increase the number of clinical membres who are associated with AIVO.
2025 update
- AIVO participated in a research symposium at the National Congress of Ophthalmology (CNO2025), held in Buenos Aires April 3 - 5, 2025.
- AIVO 2025 virtual meetings held monthly from March to November 2025.
Contact
- AIVO President: Damián Dorfman, MD, PhD
- AIVO Vice-President: Melina Mateos, PhD
- AIVO Secretary: Lorena German
- AIVO Secretary of International Affairs: Rodrigo Torres, MD, PhD and Pablo Barcelona
- AIVO Treasurer: Pablo Barrionuevo
- AIVO website: www.aivo.com.ar