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Cornea Society News – published quarterly by the Cornea Society 6 The American Academy of Ophthalmology is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. W H E R E A L L O F O P H T H A L M O LO GY M E E T S LAS VEGAS Cornea 2015: Show Me the Evidence! Back to Basics and Beyond In conjunction with The Cornea Society Saturday, November 14, from 8:00 AM to 5:30 PM Las Vegas, NV Program Directors: Stephen C Kaufman MD PhD Bennie H Jeng MD Shahzad I Mian MD Your registration for Cornea Subspecialty Day includes: • Flexibility to float among all Subspecialty Day meetings on Saturday. • Access to the AAO 2015 Exhibit Hall on Saturday. Registration Opens: Academy Members: June 24 Nonmembers: July 8 www.aao.org/2015 #aao2015 The World Cornea Congress VII was a great success in April in San Diego. A supplemental issue of Cornea will be published in the fall containing full papers from the 7 keynote addresses, 6 of the free papers, and 63 abstracts. This is also likely to become a valuable reference. Thank you to all who contribute in many ways to the Cornea journal. CN Alan Sugar, MD, editor-in-chief continued from page 4 Society announces by-law changes O ver the past 6 months, the Society board of directors made some changes to the Society's by-laws. Some were small changes that mainly adjust the by-laws to accurately reflect the organization's operating proce- dures. However, 2 changes were more substantive. These changes were reviewed at the Society's business meeting and are outlined below. By-law section 5.02 that outlines the makeup of the board was adjusted to reflect that the minimum num- ber of international members on the board should be 2; it had been 3. It was changed from 2 to 3 about 5 years ago, but there has been difficulty in securing enough qualified international members who were interested (and able) to be board members. This change should not be seen as a decline in the Society's inter- est or commitment to the international cornea community but more as a way to allow for increased flexibility in selecting board members. The second by-law change of note is section 6.04, the composition of the Nominating Committee. This section was changed so that there are fewer conflict of interests among those serv- ing on the Nominating Committee and being considered for Executive Commit- tee positions. To avoid these conflicts, the Nominating Committee will now be made up of 3 members of the Executive Committee who are not up for another position, namely, the president, presi- dent-elect and the past president. Each of these 3 people will select a current or former board member who does not want to be considered for a new position that year. Additionally, the most recent former past president (who is willing to serve) would be the 7th member of the committee. However, this person will not be a current board member. These by-law changes and a number of other operational changes can be viewed in the most recent copy of the Society's by-laws on the members-only section of the website www.CorneaSociety.org. CN

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