DOI: 10.1097/OPX.0b013e318234fe48
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Issn Print: 1040-5488
Publication Date: 2011/10/01
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After a record-breaking attendance at last years meeting in San Francisco, there is some expectation that the record in attendance may move to Boston, 2011. The program certainly highlights many reasons for this, to say nothing of the way rooms in hotels filled so early in the registration process. Once again, this internationally attended meeting will highlight scientific posters and presentations of advances of clinical import, many theme seminars and symposia, a fine exhibit program, and a unique opportunity to exchange ideas that has for so many years been a hallmark of Academy meetings. Added to this are the usual popular education and social events for interest groups, students, residents, and all attendees. It culminates with a grand banquet Saturday night for the welcoming of new fellows!
In the News section of this month's Journal, I highlight some of the main symposia, including the opening plenary session of “Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI),” the Hirsch research-based clinical care symposium which this year focuses on biological “omics” that been exponentially increasing the last decade and promising so much in medical advances, the ARVO/AAO joint symposium (Accommodation and Surgical Treatments for Presbyopia) and the award-winning lectures on new nonsurgical myopia prevention treatments and clinical optics of the eye.
Your own journal, Optometry and Vision Science (OVS), once again will be presenting a 2-hour education course (OVS Presents) highlighting the more recent advances and publications on contact lens wear issues related to biofilms, bioburden, and their clinical effects. The focus will be on identifying the problems, the unanswered questions, and the best clinical strategies as we go forward.
In two recent Editorials, I made a point of thanking and identifying the many Topical Editors who have served OVS in recent years. They are an impressive group from around the world in optometry, ophthalmology, and vision/eye clinical science. Each year I also personally and individually thank each of our reviewers whose constructive critiques of manuscripts lead to the high quality of published work that readers and authors have come to expect. In the News section this month, I highlight a superb recent on-line free resource for our reviewers; each of the more than 2000 reviewers in our active database for OVS received information from me about this. It is a course series created by Cochrane Eyes and Vision Group and is a free-of-charge on-line course (combined slides and audio) on journal peer review, “Translating Critical Appraisal of a Manuscript into Meaningful Peer Review.” The objective of the course is to serve as a resource for health professionals who are serving, or wish to serve, as peer reviewers of the biomedical literature.
But, as I noted in the News section of this Journal, many others will find this resource valuable. Check out the OVS News and also look at the following web site: http://trams.jhsph.edu/trams/index.cfm?event=training.launch&trainingID=132.
Finally, I want to give you a brief “heads up” on a new feature of OVS starting next year. Beginning in 2012, OVS will produce at least one on-line only Supplement issue that will be very focused on clinical care through Case Reports, Clinical Commentary, and Highlights of Clinical Meetings that have targeted approaches to clinical care and recent developments. It will bring full color and include video clips. The rationale? About 80% of the Academy membership, and many readers beyond the membership, have direct clinical care as their primary interest and responsibility.
