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Cornea Society News – published quarterly by the Cornea Society 6 Educational Summit wrap-up I n October, the Cornea Society hosted the 3rd annual Cornea Fellows Educational Summit in Tampa, Fla.—a two-day, intensive educational program that included both classroom and skills transfer lab components. It was designed to complement and reinforce cornea fellowship training. Developed to address educational challenges identified by cornea fellowship directors, the 2015 Educational Summit provided additional training to improve diagnostic and treat- ment skills within the clinic setting, instruction on patient selection and surgical techniques for refractive surgery, and technique pearls for routine and complex cataract surgery and corneal transplantation. This year's Summit included several sessions from the new program Cornea Society University to address large gaps in the guidance of young career develop- ment. Through an integrated training program in both refrac- tive and corneal transplant surgery, the 2015 Educational Summit enhanced current fellowship training and prepared young ophthalmologists for their first years in practice. Led by course directors Kathryn Colby, MD, PhD, Deepinder Dhaliwal, MD, and W. Barry Lee, MD, the small faculty- to-student ratio provided hands-on training and an informal lecture setting. Esen Akpek, MD, Anthony Aldave, MD, Jessica Ciralsky, MD, Bennie Jeng, MD, Christopher Rapuano, MD, and Elmer Tu, MD, served on the Summit faculty. The Society would like to thank the companies that provided educational grants to make this program possible: Platinum Level Support Alcon Laboratories Lions Eye Institute for Transplant and Research Gold Level Support Sightlife/Ocular Systems Inc. Silver Level Support Carl Zeiss Meditec Claes H. Dohlman, MD, PhD Moria Surgical Ziemer Ophthalmic Systems AG Patron Level Support Accutome Inc. CORONET Medical Technologies Inc. Katena Products Ocular Therapeutix Inc. STAAR Surgical Company Report from Cornea, journal of the Cornea Society S ubmissions to Cornea have risen 27% from 2014 to 2015. This means that we are now receiving about 1,200 new papers annually. The accep- tance rate for the first three quarters of 2015 was 34.5%. Along with the increased numbers, I think that we are able to accept better quality papers and present more important information from well-conducted clinical trials. Two "special projects" have been published this year: the second edition of the International Commit- tee for the Classification of Corneal Dystrophies (IC3D) report and the Global Consensus on Keratoconus and Ectatic Diseases. Supplements from the World Cornea Congress VII and the Kyoto Cornea Club provide out- standing updates on various corneal topics. The journal is busy, growing, a great resource, and a great place to publish the best in our field. –Alan Sugar, editor-in-chief T he 2016 Course on Advanced Cornea Surgery (CoACS) will be held in Atlanta on March 4–5, 2016. Course organizers Yousuf Khalifa, MD, Barry Lee, MD, Brad Randleman, MD, and Mohammad Anwar, MD, invite you to Atlanta for this interactive meeting between attendees, instructors, eye banking experts, and industry to learn advanced tech- niques in corneal surgery. The course will feature didactic and hands-on wet labs on endothelial keratoplasty (De- scemet's membrane endothelial keratoplasty [DMEK] and Descemet's stripping endothelial keratoplasty [DSEK]), as well as femtosecond-assisted keratoplasty techniques. The latest state-of-the-art equipment and technology will be available for attendees to learn and perfect the various techniques of keratoplasty. The course will also feature di- dactic and wet labs covering treatments for corneal ectasia including deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty and colla- gen crosslinking. Learn from this joint collaboration of leading industry representatives and experienced corneal surgeons and eye banking experts. Registration for the course will be available at med.emory.edu/cme. Course on Advanced Cornea Surgery to be held March 4–5