The company was founded as the Association of Contact Specialists of Serbia and Montenegro on 02.12.2004. in Belgrade. The Chairman of the Founding Assembly was Dr. Sima Marjanović.

 

- The association called the European Association of Contact Ophthalmologists is registered in the register of associations in Munich, where the headquarters of the ECLSO association is also located
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- The first ECLSO Congress was held in London in 1971 at the Royal College of Surgeons, chaired by Montague Reuben (UK) and organized by Alan Higgitt, Michael O'Riordan and Michael Wilson.

- In 1982 - 83, 2 awards were established: the Fick/Kalt/Müller medal in honor of the invention of contact lenses by three doctors (1886 - 87). Werner Claas designed the medal and presented it for the first time in 1983. It is the highest recognition of the Society and represents recognition for outstanding work and advancement of contactology. Second prize The Kiewiet de Jonge Lectureship. In 2010, Dr. Mihaly Vegh from Hungary was awarded the prize in Warsaw.
 
- The first Assembly of COLS was held on April 22, 2005. in Belgrade,
- The Second Assembly of COLS was held on April 14, 2006. in Belgrade,
- The third regular Assembly will be held in April 2007. in Belgrade,
- The Society was officially admitted to ECLSO at the 36th ECLSO Congress, which was held from 6-8. October 2006 in Dubrovnik.

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At the 45th meeting of national representatives of the European Contact Lens and Ocular Surface Congress, held in Izmir, on October 15, 2015, which brings together contact ophthalmologists from 24 European countries, Valentina Dimitrijević-Milovanović, vice president of COLSS and Chief Office for contact lenses of the KCS Eye Diseases Clinic, was elected Auditor of the Presidium of the ECLSO.

This is a special honor and recognition for Serbian contactology and ophthalmology.

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At the session of the Assembly of COLSS, which was held on May 22, 2015, in the amphitheater of the Clinic for Eye Diseases, Clinical Center of Serbia in Belgrade, the new leadership of the association was elected.

 

President of the Society

Dr. Danijela Randjelovic

 

Vice President of the Society

Valentina Dimitrijević Milovanović, MD, MSc

 

The Executive Board of the Company

Ph.D.

 

Secretary of the Society

Dr. Katarina Jankovic Terzić

 

Supervisory Board

Dr. Marina Markovic, Dr. Prvoslava Petrović, Dr. Nada Arsić

 

Scientific Board

Prof. Đorđe Kontić, Ph.D., Milenko Stojković, Ph.D., Valentina Dimitrijević Milovanović, Ph.D., Gordana Suvajac, Ph.D., Ljiljana Kovač, Ph.D.

President of the Scientific Board : Prof. Dr. Đorđe Kontić,

Biography:

He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine in Belgrade in 1970. He completed his specialization in ophthalmology in 1978 at the Eye Clinic in Belgrade.

He received his master's degree in 1983 and his doctorate in 1985 at the Faculty of Medicine in Belgrade. In more detail

 

 

Honorary President Prim Dr. Sima Marjanović

 

After the election of the Society's bodies, the newly elected President of the Society, Dr. Danijela Ranđelović, presented ceremonial charters to prominent members of the Society for their outstanding contribution to contactology:

 

Ljiljani Kovac, Ph.D. and Valentina Dimitrijevic Milovanovic, Ph.D

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