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Show NANOS NEWS 34th Annual North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society (NANOS) Meeting, Orlando, Florida, March 8-13, 2008 Orlando, Florida was the gathering place for the 34th Annual Meeting of the North American Neuro- Ophthalmology Society (NANOS) from March 8 to 13, 2008. The 342 attendees included 46 from outside North America (Israel, 12; Switzerland, 6; France, 5; United Kingdom, 4; Japan, 3; Brazil, Denmark, Korea, Spain, and Venezuela, 2; Australia, Belgium, Egypt, Hungary, Mexico, and Portugal, 1). There were 23 platform presentations, 92 posters, and 3 symposia. As usual, the program began with the all-day Frank B. Walsh Session organized by the potent Los Angeles duo of Lynn Gordon, MD, PhD and Peter Quiros, MD. Invited guests were neuropathologist David Hinton, MD, PhD and neuroradiologist Paul Kim, MD, who enlightened a rapt audience with trenchant commentary and elegant examples drawn from their teaching files. Moderated by Valerie Biousse, MD (Atlanta, GA), and David Newman-Toker, MD, PhD (Baltimore, MD), the first NANOS symposium covered new concepts of stroke. Invited speaker Michael Frankel, MD, a neurologist spe-cializing in stroke, delivered fine lectures on management of acute stroke and its secondary prevention. John Selhorst, MD (St. Louis, MO), and Victoria Pelak,MD (Denver, CO), put together a splendid symposium on neurodegenerative disorders. It included invited lectures by Charles Duffy, MD, Peter Quiros, MD and Lynn Gordon, MD, PhD, mouse-keteers and chairs of the Walsh Symposium. James Corbett, MD delivering the first Jacobson Lecture. New NANOS Candidate Members Melissa Ko, MD, Eliz-abeth Waller, MD, Mays El-Dairi, MD, Islam Zaydan, MD, Alice Kim, MD, and Thomas Hwang, MD, PhD. J Neuro-Ophthalmol, Vol. 28, No. 3, 2008 255 PhD, on visual motion processing and by Henry Paulson, MD, PhD on ataxia and spinocerebellar disorders. The third symposium, organized by Nicholas Volpe, MD (Philadelphia, PA) and Michael Lee, MD (Minneapolis, MN), covered diagnostic neuroimaging. It included well-received lectures by invited speakers Matilde Inglese, MD, PhD, on imaging of multiple sclerosis and by Charles Truwit, MD, on the future of neuroimaging. The awards for the best Walsh presentations went to Beau Bruce, MD (Atlanta, GA), and Thomas Hwang, MD, PhD (San Francisco, CA). Among the NANOS presenters, the award for the outstanding fellow's work went to Thomas Hwang, MD, PhD. Among the resident presenters, the winner was Sashank Prasad, MD (Philadelphia, PA), and among the medical students, it was Matt Schlenker, MD (Toronto, ON). Deborah Grzybowski,MD, PhD (Columbus, OH) received the 2007 NANOS Pilot Grant Award and Kenneth Shindler, MD (Philadelphia, PA) received the 2008 Young Investigator Award. Arun Sundaram, PhD (Toronto, ON) received the NANOS/Fight for Sight Post-doctoral Fellowship Award. Kathleen Digre,MD (Salt Lake City, UT) received the 2008 NANOS Distinguished Service Award. Joel S. Glaser, MD (Miami, FL) was recognized as the 2007 Hoyt Lecturer at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Ophthalmology in November 2007. (Dr. Glaser's lecture appeared in the June issue of the Journal.) James Corbett, MD delivered the first Jacobson Lecture, which will be given annually at the NANOS meeting in recognition of the contributions of Daniel M. Jacobson, MD to this specialty. (Dr. Corbett's lecture will appear in the December 2008 issue of the Journal.) The next (35th) NANOS meeting will take place at the Hyatt Regency Tahoe Resort, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, February 21-26, 2008. For details, go to the NANOS Web site www.nanosweb.org. Jonathan D. Trobe, MD Ann Arbor, Michigan The Walsh Symposium crew. Seated (left to right): Paul Kim, MD (guest neuroradiologist), David Hinton, MD, PhD (guest neuropathologist), Lynn Gordon, MD, PhD, and An-thony Arnold, MD. Standing (left to right): Leah Levi, MD, Fiona Costel-lo, MD, Madhu Agarwal, MD, Peter Quiros, MD, Howard Krauss, MD, and Guy Jirawuthiworavong, MD. Janet Rucker, MD and Nancy Newman, MD. Jack Carter, MD, Tighe Richardson, MD, and Michael Rosenberg, MD. J Neuro-Ophthalmol, Vol. 28, No. 3, 2008 Trobe 256 q 2008 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Rod Foroozan, MD and Prem Subramanian, MD. Esriel Killer, MD, Neil Miller, MD and Steven Newman, MD. Aileen Antonio-Santos, MD and Richard Sogg, MD. Ruth Huna-Baron, MD and Iris Ben Bassat, MD. Michael Altman, MD and Nitza Goldenberg-Cohen, MD. Janel Fick and Edmond Fitzgibbon, MD. NANOS News J Neuro-Ophthalmol, Vol. 28, No. 3, 2008 257 Valerie Purvin, MD and Kara Warden, MD. Candy Chan, MD and Deborah Friedman, MD. Tour of posters billboard previewing the virtuosic young Nancy Newman on the left, and on the right, older brother Steven playing the cello and being pestered by very young sister Nancy. The inner circle of NANOS officers: Anthony Arnold, MD, Ralph Sawyer, MD, Deborah Friedman, MD, Preston Calvert, MD, and Larry Frohman, MD. J Neuro-Ophthalmol, Vol. 28, No. 3, 2008 Trobe 258 q 2008 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Randy Kardon, MD and Jacqueline Leavitt, MD. Renee van Stavern, MD, Gregory van Stavern, MD, and Eric Eggenberger, DO. Thomas Carlow, MD, James Goodwin, MD, and Hazem Samy, MD. Sharon Johnstone, MD and Rosa Tang, MD. Beau Bruce, MD and Thomas Hwang, MD, PhD, recipients of the Walsh Best Paper Award. NANOS News J Neuro-Ophthalmol, Vol. 28, No. 3, 2008 259 New NANOS Fellows (left to right): Bradley Katz, MD, PhD, Nathaniel Carter, MD, Edward Kong, MD, Howard Krauss, MD, David New-man- Toker, MD, PhD, and Robert Saul, MD. Sachin Kedar, MD, Yanjun Chen, MD, Candy Chan, MD, PhD, Sandeep Randhawa, MD, and Valerie El Malem, MD, recipients of the NANOS Resident Travel Scholarship Awards. Deborah Friedman, MD (left) and Agnes Wong, MD, PhD, with Kenneth Shindler, recipient of NANOS 2008 Young Investigator Award. J Neuro-Ophthalmol, Vol. 28, No. 3, 2008 Trobe 260 q 2008 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins |
