Awards

2011 COS Awards of Excellence in Ophthalmic Research

The Canadian Ophthalmological Society congratulates the recipients of the 2011 awards:

Abstracts

• 1st place
  Rates of change in patients with glaucoma and different patterns of optic disc damage
  Alexandre S. Reis, Paul H. Artes, Balwantray C. Chauhan, Marcelo T. Nicolela
• 2nd place
  The feasibility of air travel for patients with scleral buckles and intraocular gas
  Jason Noble, Navapol Kanchanaranya, Robert G. Devenyi, Wai-Ching Lam
• 3rd place
  Incidence of discordant temporal artery biopsies in the diagnosis of giant cell arteritis
  Bethany Durling, Andrew Toren, David Jordan, Steve Gilberg, Vivek Patel

Posters

• 1st place
  Assessment of drusen and inflammatory mediators in the post-mortem human eye: An immunohistochemical study
  Kailun Jiang, Eleanor To, Jing Z. Cui, Joanne A. Matsubara
• 2nd place
  Prevalence of depression and quality of life impairment in patients with age related macular degeneration
  Jamil Jivraj , Imran Jivraj, Christopher Rudnisky, Matthew Tennant
• 3rd place
  Combined cataract and glaucoma surgery: endoscopic cyclophotocoagulation versus trabeculectomy
  Sheila A. Marco, Karim F. Damji, Christopher Rudnisky