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Cornea Society News – published quarterly by the Cornea Society 3 Those corneas that were warmed to 35 degrees Celsius scored one grade higher and produced better images in a shorter amount of time. Images obtained after 1 hour at 35 Celsius are comparable to those obtained after 4 hours at room temperature. Having better control of this step in the tissue evaluation process will aid in reducing the amount of time donor corneas are exposed to tempera- tures outside of the recommended cold storage conditions, Dr. Tran said. CN Editors' note: Dr. Tran's study was funded by Bausch + Lomb (Bridgewater, New Jer- sey). Dr. Nordlund has no financial interests related to his presentation. sive warming times at eye banks. "We looked at our eye bank processes and asked what would cause us to excessively warm tissue and what can be done to minimize tissue exposure to excessive warming," Dr. Tran said. He explained that excessive warm- ing could be caused by the process for obtaining a specular image, as specular image acquisition can require a lot of time, sometimes 4+ hours, and not all corneas are ready at the same time. Sometimes it's necessary to leave some corneas out longer to complete this process or even put them away and try again later. Dr. Tran has heard from other eye bank professionals that if you warm the corneas up to 35 degrees Celsius in an incubator, you can get better specular images. Dr. Tran tested this by warming pairs of corneas at room temperature or at 35 degrees Celsius and taking specular images every hour. Then two masked readers rated the images. disease and for contributions to the pro- fession. "No award could be more grat- ifying than an award for teaching," Dr. Mannis said, adding that he owes a debt of gratitude to Dr. Dohlman who "has inspired generations of cornea special- ists." Dr. Mannis thanked the members of the Cornea Society and other mentors in the cornea field, as well as his practice partners and his residents and fellows. The Richard C. Troutman, MD, DSc, Prize Lecture, which goes to an inves- tigator 40 years old or younger for an original paper, was given by Khoa Tran, PhD, Portland, Oregon. He presented his study "Rapid Warming of Donor Corneas is Safe and Improves Specular Image Quality." The motivation for the study was based on concerns over the increasing trend of post-keratoplasty fungal infections, strong correlation be- tween eye bank prepared EK tissues and higher rate of infections, and that the increased rates may be linked to exces- Cornea journal report T he journal Cornea relies heavily on the scientific peer review of papers submitted. These reviews are completed voluntarily by clinicians and researchers in our fast growing and changing subspe- cialty. Careful review is critical for quality assessment and publication judgments as well as for improv- ing the quality of the research and its reporting. We currently reward reviewers with continuing medical education credits. To reward them further, we intend to join Publons. Publons is a website that will keep track of all reviews done by a reviewer and list their areas of expertise. This will allow reviewers to document their review activities for advance- ment within their organizations, cross reference reviews, and will allow the journal to find appropriate experts to perform reviews. To further enhance the review experience, the journal will offer authors and reviewers the opportunity to use Editage, another online service that provides training in performance of peer reviews. We hope to offer Publons and Editage at the beginning of 2018. CN Dr. Tran, with Cornea Society president Marian Macsai, MD, and Douglas Lazzaro, MD, receives the Richard C. Troutman, MD, DSc, Prize for his study "Rapid Warming of Donor Corneas is Safe and Improves Specular Image Quality." continued from page 1 View the abstracts from the Cornea and Eye Banking Forum on the Cornea journal website at journals.lww.com/corneajrnl.

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