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Cornea Society News – published quarterly by the Cornea Society 6 2018 Castroviejo Medal and Dohlman Award recipients phase of corneal transplantation," in- cluding eye banking, corneal transplant practice and technique, and transplan- tation outcomes research. Dr. Sugar has also researched the genetics of Fuchs' dystrophy and treatment for severe dry eye. Dr. Sugar, a past president of the Cornea Society, serves as editor-in-chief of Cornea, the Cornea Society's journal, is on research committees for the Eye Bank Association of America and the Michigan Eye Bank, and is a co-chair of the Institutional Review Board for the University of Michigan Medical Center. The Cornea Society's Dohlman Award, which is named in honor of Claes Dohlman, MD, PhD, and recog- nizes a lifetime of teaching excellence T his year Alan Sugar, MD, Ann Arbor, Michigan, was selected to receive the Cornea Society's high- est honor, the Castroviejo Medal. Named in honor of Ramon Cas- troviejo, MD, the father of modern corneal transplant surgery who inspired the foundation of the Cornea Society, the Castroviejo Medal is presented to an individual who has made significant contributions to cornea as a subspecialty and anterior segment surgery as a whole. Dr. Sugar, professor of ophthalmol- ogy and visual sciences at the Kellogg Eye Center, University of Michigan, is considered a leading cornea expert in the U.S. In a press release, Elmer Tu, MD, Cornea Society president, said, "Dr. Sugar has pioneered research into every Cornea journal report T he journal Cornea remains very busy. In 2017, 1,212 new manuscripts were received, and 30.7% were accepted. The rate of submissions has increased about 50% over the past 5 years. A major change in the associate editors of the journal is the retirement from the board of Ivan Schwab, MD. Ivan has been an outstanding editor for many years. He is renowned for his intellect, knowledge, and skills as the director of the cornea service at the University of California, Davis. His breadth of interests is highlight- ed by his extraordinary book on the evolutionary development of vision, Evolution's Witness: How Eyes Evolved. His associate editorship role will be filled by Esen Akpek, MD, and Ben- nie Jeng, MD, who will be promoted from their current assistant editorship positions. We anticipate the publication this spring of a supplement on the imaging of donor corneas as an aid to corneal surgeons and eye bank Cornea journal news • PDFs for corresponding authors: Coming in the second quarter of 2018, corresponding authors will receive a link to a free PDF of their article after it has been published in an issue of Cornea. • 2017 Cornea and Eye Banking Forum abstracts: Abstracts from the forum are available in PDF form on Cornea's website, www. corneajrnl.com. CN in cornea and external disease as well as contributions to the profession, is being awarded posthumously to Ronald Smith, MD (1942–2014). Dr. Smith, who was honored with the Castroviejo Medal in 2003, was the former chair of the Department of Ophthalmology, Keck School of Medi- cine, University of Southern California, served as president of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, was a former chair of the American Board of Ophthalmology, and earned numerous awards for his contributions to the field. Dr. Tu described Dr. Smith as "a generous and humble teacher to numer- ous residents and fellows," noting that he had a "very positive and often witty demeanor." CN personnel. Titled "Current and new technologies in corneal tissue evalua- tion: Comparative image atlas," this is authored by Jonathan Lass, MD, and his associates. The Cornea Society's journal encourages your comments and your submissions of clinical and laboratory science related to the cornea. CN —Alan Sugar, MD, editor-in-chief

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