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The American Uveitis Society's membership unanimously approved revisions to the society's bylaws today. The revisions focused on alterations to the Board of Director terms to establish staggered times in office, allowing for retention of institutional memory and enhancing governance of the society. The official results can be viewed here.

FOCIS meeting 2017 June 14-18, 2017 Chicago, Illinois; update your knowledge on animal models and pre-clinical targets for immune-mediate uveitis at the AUS member society symposium, June 14, 2017 !

The call for abstracts for the 2017 American Uveitis Society Spring Meeting, which will be held in conjunction with the 2017 ARVO Annual Meeting, is now open. The submission deadline is Friday, April 14, 2017. The meeting will be held on Saturday, May 6, 2017 at the Baltimore Convention Center. Save the date and time for a social hour beginning at 5pm with the scientific meeting to follow at 6pm. Non-speaker guest fee is $50. Guest pre-registration is highly encouraged and may be accomplished at www.UveitisSociety.org. Members whose dues are current are admitted free.

NEW THIS YEAR
The American Uveitis Society announces the inaugural deliveries of the Ronald E Smith MD Memorial Lecture and the Robert B Nussenblatt MD Memorial Lecture in honor of two of our founding Directors. The Ronald E Smith MD Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Narsing A Rao MD of the University of Southern California and the Robert B Nussenblatt MD Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Rubens Belfort Jr MD PhD MBA of the Federal University of Sao Paulo Brazil.

Free papers will follow, abstract submission for which is now open.

Abstract submission is electronic, via this form:

https://goo.gl/forms/WQfgnvPyeF519ylY2

The submission website will close at midnight CDT on April 14, 2017. A review committee will select abstracts for presentation and submission does NOT guarantee acceptance. Please be aware that abstracts describing case reports will receive low priority and may be rejected. Please do not submit abstracts that will be presented at the ARVO Annual Meeting. ARVO strictly forbids duplicate presentation. Clinical trials must be registered on clinicaltrials.gov. Please indicate all relevant financial disclosures.

We look forward to receiving your abstracts!

H Nida Sen MD MHS
Russell W Read MD PhD

The American Uveitis Society today announced that its annual Spring meeting will be held in Baltimore MD in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology. Further details can be found in the Events section of the Society's website, www.UveitisSociety.org.

The American Uveitis Society curated reading list for residents, culled from the uveitis literature published in 2015 is now available online. A collaboration between the American Academy of Ophthalmology and the American Uveitis Society and spearheaded by AUS Educational Liaison Justine Smith MBBS PhD FARVO, the Resident Reading List is an annual project intended to highlight the top papers published in uveitis for the past year. While targeting residents, the list is applicable to anyone with an interest in staying current in uveitis.

At the upcoming Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, the Inaugural C Stephen and Frances Foster Lecture on Uveitis and Immunology will be given by our own Doug Jabs (Please note this lecture is not sponsored by the AUS, this is being provided for your information).

"Immunosuppression for the Uveitides: Current Status and Future Directions"

Douglas A. Jabs, MD, MBA

12:45 PM on Monday, 17 October 2016

McCormick Place, Room S406A

Chicago, Illinois

Don’t forget to register for the upcoming FOCIS meeting! Meeting registration deadline for poster presenters April 1, 2016; Late-breaking abstract submission deadline April 1, 2016; Headquarter hotel registration discount deadline May 20, 2016 

See more at: http://www.focisnet.org/2013-03-07-14-01-50/2015-annual-meeting#sthash.keTc9tBg.dpuf

The American Uveitis Society today announced that its annual Spring meeting will be held in Seattle WA in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology. Further details can be found in the Events section of the Society's website, www.UveitisSociety.org.

Justine Smith MD PhD was recognized for participation on the Council of the American Academy of Ophthalmology during AAO 2015 in Las Vegas.  Dr. Smith served for 6 years as a councilor for the American Uveitis Society.

The Council serves as an advisory body to the Academy’s Board of Trustees.  More than 100 Academy members serve on this body and act as liaisons between their society and the Academy bringing issues identified by their societies to the attention of the Academy’s Board of Trustees. Issues are brought to the Academy Board of Trustees as Council Advisory Recommendations (CARs).  Each spring the Council meets to debate and formulate its recommendations for the Academy Board.

Representatives to the Council are elected by each state society and by subspecialty societies and specialized interest groups in ophthalmology.  On December 31st, Dr. Smith will conclude her term on the Academy Council. Russell Read MD PhD has been elected by the American Uveitis Society to serve as Councilor to the Academy and will begin his term on January 1, 2016 and participate at the Spring Council Meeting in conjunction with the April 13-16, 2016 Mid-Year Forum in Washington, D.C.