Since October 2000, the head office of the SFO has been in Paris' 14th arrondissement (district), at 17 Villa d'Alésia, and is easily accessed by public transport (cf bottom of page).

Total surface area is 850 m², although the SFO does not of course occupy all this space:

Part of the premises is occupied by the SNOF (The French National Union of Ophthalmologists) and its offshoot, OPH Communications, providing them both with a head office in Paris.
The Bibliothèque Javal library is situated along the whole of the ground floor, which also houses the reception library and the librarian's office. There are two computers for carrying out book searches and they also have Internet access. More stations will be added as needs dictate.
	The SFO is located on the first floor, which it shares with the SNOF. This is where members come to pay their subscriptions or meet permanent members (see list at bottom of page). The second floor is partitioned into two areas, one of which houses offices rented by the OPC (Organisation pour la Prévention de la Cécité - Organization for the Prevention of Blindness, whose President is Prof Yves Pouliquen). The second section consists of an immense conference room, which is the venue for meetings of the Board of Governors of the SFO, the SNOF, the OPC, the Collèges des Hôpitaux (Hospitals College), or any other association affiliated with ophthalmology that requests use of the room.

The entire building is called the Maison de l'Ophthalmologie, and its aim is to unite the different branches that make up our specialist family tree, in order to make French ophthalmology stronger and more influential.

This is why the head office of the Académie d'Ophthalmologie, which brings together the bodies that make up French ophthalmology, are located at 17 Villa d'Alésia. We now have at our disposal a considerable tool both in terms of property and technology, and especially in terms of cutting-edge information technology. The website that you are now browsing is one happy result of all these new ideas.
The new premises were inaugurated on the 17th November 2000, when those present included Jean-Paul Adenis, President of the SFO, and Gilles Renard, SFO General Secretary, both of whom prompted the brave decision to give our societies an extra dimension; Jean-Luc Seegmuller, President of the SNOF; Yves Pouliquen, President of the OPC; Jacques Flament, President of the Académie d'Ophthalmologie; Jean-Antoine Bernard, the SFO scientific and administrative director. The opening also took place in the presence of Bernadette Chirac, France's First Lady and Chairwoman of the Fondation des Hôpitaux de France (French Hospitals Foundation).

Also present were other members of the Executive Committee (Alain Ducasse, Marie-Christine Lalanne, Jean-François Maurin) and most of the members of the SFO board of Governors, as were many past members of the Executive Committee and the Board of Governors.

La Maison de l'Ophtalmologie

17, Villa d'Alésia
75014 Paris

By tube: stop at Alésia - line 4 - direction Porte d'Orléans/Porte de Clignancourt 

By bus: No. 28 (St. Lazare to Porte d'Orléans); No. 38 (Gare de l'Est to Porte d'Orléans); No. 58 (Hôtel de Ville to Porte de Vanves); No. 62 (Cours de Vincennes to Porte de Saint-Cloud); No. 68 (Place de Clichy to Porte d'Orléans).

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