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EW SHOW DAILY 26 ASCRS News Today Saturday, May 7, 2016 T he entertainment that will precede this morning's ASCRS Opening General Session (OGS) will be sure to get you moving. MoJEAUX, the official band of the New Orleans Saints, the Sugar Bowl, and the BCS Collegiate Series, will bring their lively sounds to Great Hall A and D at 9:40 a.m., immedi- ately prior to the OGS at 10 a.m. MoJEAUX band members will perform their own renditions of New Orleans favorites, R&B, Motown, oldies, top 40, rock, funk, and disco. The ASCRS OGS will include presidents' addresses, Honored Guests, an ASCRS Foundation update, the Ophthalmology Hall of Fame inductees, and the ASCRS Binkhorst Lecture. EW Get a rousing start to your morning with local band MoJEAUX T en of ophthalmology's most outstanding residents are attending this year's annual meeting as a result of the ASCRS Foundation's Resi- dent Excellence Awards program. Each year, the foundation gives 10 travel grants to extraordinary residents through a competitive application process. The applica- tion period is open from October to January, and applicants must be nominated by their program directors. The foundation's Review Committee considers exemplary resident performance in the areas of research, patient care, leadership, and education. In addition to the travel grant, the ASCRS Foundation provides complimentary meeting registration and housing. The total awards pack- age offers sufficient financial support for 4 days of concentrated learning Resident Excellence Awards from ASCRS Foundation recognize outstanding students at the ASCRS•ASOA Symposium & Congress. The 2016 Resident Excellence Award winners are: Sourabh Arora, MD, University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada; Seanna Grob, MD, Har- vard Medical School, Boston; Anton Kolomeyer, MD, PhD, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh; Nambi Nallasamy, MD, Duke Eye Center, Durham, North Carolina; Walter Parker, MD, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston; Zeba Syed, MD, Harvard Medical School; Reid Turner, MD, Medical University of South Carolina, Storm Eye Institute, Charleston; Guadalupe Villareal Jr., MD, Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore; Kunyoung Xu, MD, Queens Uni- versity, Ontario; and Luna Xu, MD, New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai, New York. EW The ASCRS Foundation awarded 10 research grant winners for 2016 Here are the winners and their research projects: Nizar Saleh Abdelfattah, MD Ocular aberrations and contrast sensitivity following different types of wavefront excimer laser treatment Xiangjun Chen, MD, PhD Treatment of postoperative discomfort/pain and facilitation of corneal re-epithelialization after PRK Eva DeVience, MD Effect of intraoperative factors on intraocular pressure reduction after phacoemulsification in open-angle glaucoma patients Ivayla Geneva, MD, PhD Multicenter clinical trial to evaluate a new surgical approach for the prevention of negative dysphotopsia Luxme Hariharan, MD, MPH The incidence of glaucoma in children post pediatric corneal transplant Sezen Karakus, MD Early diagnosis of Sjögren's syndrome among dry eye patients Sayoko Maroi, MD, PhD Which aqueous humor outflow pathways are key structures for microinvasive glaucoma surgery outcomes? Doran Spencer, MD Investigation of interaction of immune cells with limbal stem cells Luis Oswaldo Villavicencio, MD Descemet stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty combined with endocyclophotocoagulation in eyes with pre-existing glaucoma: Long-term graft survival Scott Walter, MD A polyacrylamide vitreo-refractive prosthesis designed to prevent post-vitrectomy cataract and restore accommodation

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