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ASCRS News Today
Saturday, May 6, 2017
T
en of ophthalmology's
most outstanding young
residents are attending this
year's annual meeting as a
result of the ASCRS Foun-
dation's Resident 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
Resident Excellence Awards from ASCRS
Foundation recognize outstanding students
Pejman Bakhtiary, MD Medically reversible limbal stem cell dysfunction: Clinical characteristics and efficacy of medical treatment
J.S. Isteitiya, MD Randomized clinical trial of CXL for corneal ulcers
Lauren Jeang, MD Collagen cross-linking with riboflavin in collagen XII and XIV deficient mice
Michael Lin, MD Quality outcomes review of minimally invasive glaucoma surgery
Katy Liu, MD, PhD A model of the distal outflow tract in living mice
Jack Parker, MD Femtosecond preparation of isolated Bowman layer grafts
Gavin Roddy, MD, PhD Stanniocalcin-1 for intraocular pressure reduction
Leejee Suh, MD Corneal ectasia in the pediatric allergy population
Aaron Wang, MD, PhD The design and validation of a new DMEK device to optimize outcomes
Kyle Kovacs, MD Choroidal vascular findings on wide-field indocyanine green angiography associated with ocular and systemic disease
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CORNEA SOCIETY UNIVERSITY (CSU), the newest online educational
initiative geared toward cornea fellows and young physician
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
at the ASCRS•ASOA Symposium &
Congress.
The 2017 Resident Excellence
Award winners are: Tarek Alasil,
MD, University of Virginia School
of Medicine, Charlottesville; Igor
Bussel, MD, University of Pittsburgh
Medical Center, Pittsburgh; Daniel
Gologorsky, MD, Bascom Palmer
Eye Institute, University of Miami;
Roman Krivochenitser, MD, Uni-
versity of Wisconsin Hospitals and
Clinics, Madison; Priya Mathews,
MD, Columbia University Medi-
cal Center/New York Presbyterian
Hospital, New York; Natasha Nayak,
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount
Sinai, New York; Grace Paley, MD,
Washington University School
of Medicine, St. Louis; Ramunas
Rolius, MD, Penn State Hershey
Eye Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania;
Sally Shin Yee Ong, MD, Duke Eye
Center, Durham, North Carolina;
and Edmund Tsui, MD, New York
University School of Medicine, New
York. EW
2017 ASCRS Foundation research grant winners
The ASCRS Foundation awarded 10 research grant winners for 2017;
the winners are listed with their research projects
