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Cornea Society News – published quarterly by the Cornea Society 4 2018 Cornea Day preview For the first session on surgical scenarios, Dr. Mah said they wanted to incorporate surgical videos with pearls on handling complications. There will be a panel discussion regarding the best way to handle these surgical issues. The second session will focus on inflammatory and infectious eye condi- tions. During this session, typical cases that challenge clinicians every day will be presented with a panel discussion on tips and pearls for management. Ocular surface disease, the focus of the third session of the program, is a hot topic, Dr. Mah said. "Clinicians and surgeons understand the importance of identifying and managing ocular surface disease, and it is the first or second rea- son most patients visit eyecare special- ists." During this session, topics such as new ocular surface algorithms, new treatments, and dry eye masqueraders will be covered. The final session will cover debates and controversies within cornea and ex- ternal disease, Dr. Mah said, adding that "controversial" topics will be discussed, many of which don't have a right answer. Attendees may be interested to hear how physicians around the country are doing things differently. Among the topics discussed will be crosslinking, with debates on progression and how young a patient can be. "Instead of just lecturing, I think people respond to different formats," Dr. Mah said. The Cornea Day program is large- ly applicable to both the cornea and comprehensive ophthalmologist, with more advanced topics specifically geared toward the academic or tertiary care cor- nea specialist. "Hopefully the audience will enjoy the new format," he said. CN keep them in their respective sessions. But Dr. Mah said it's a great opportunity for physicians to attend presentations in both the Cornea Day and Refractive Day programs, and many of the topics will be complementary. Attendees of either program can move back and forth between the sessions. The program will be slightly differ- ent this year. "Instead of just didactic lectures, we have different formats for the sessions," Dr. Mah said. This year, Cornea Day will be comprised of four different sessions: "Surgical Scenarios: Managing DMEK Disasters and Other Cornea Catastrophes," "Smoke or Fire?" "Advances and What's Trending in Ocu- lar Surface," and "The Great Debate." T he 2018 Cornea Day will take place on Friday, April 13, in Washington, D.C. Francis Mah, MD, La Jolla, California, chair of the ASCRS Cornea Clinical Committee and one of the members of the Cornea Day Planning Committee, shared what attendees can expect at the meeting and some of the topics that will be covered. "Marian Macsai, MD, the other com- mittee members, and I, have already come up with the whole itinerary," he said, and almost all speakers are con- firmed. Like last year, Cornea Day will take place on the same day as Refractive Day. Dr. Mah said there was a bit of "friendly competition" between the two programs to try to draw the most attendees and Cornea journal news Announcing the Wolters Kluwer Peer Review Training Course C ornea can direct prospective and/or new reviewers to this site to provide basic training on the principles of performing peer review. The course is entirely web-based and takes approximately 3 hours to complete. There are two versions of the course: –Free, which includes: • A three-hour online course • Access to a discussion forum • Downloadable template for reviewers –Advanced course ($100), which includes the above and: • Downloadable tools and checklists for different stages of reviewing • Methodology and statistics reviewing guide by expert peer reviewers • Advanced tips to boost your stature • Practice review assignment with assessment and feedback from course faculty • Certificate of completion • Post-completion webinar The course is live and available at wkauthorservices.editage.com/peer-re- viewer-training-course. CN

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