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Show Neuro-Ophthalmology Virtual Education Library (NOVEL: http://NOVEL.utah.edu/) The Neuro-Ophthalmology Virtual Education Library (NOVEL) isanopen-access,discipline-specificrepository of multimedia (images, videos, lectures, and other digital content) to provide resources to neuro-ophthalmologists and othermedical professionals insupportof their clinical, research, and educationalmissions. Another NOVEL goal is to provide reliable and timely information to patients with neuro-ophthalmic illnesses. This collaboration between the North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society (NANOS) and the EcclesHealth SciencesLibrary of theUniversity ofUtah creates a unique model for digital collection development. NANOS members have committed a great deal of time and energy in providing content, metadata, and peer review. Collections in NOVEL. NOVEL has expanded to consist of 15 collections of educational resources, all downloadable via a common search engine, and in process of being linked to a master neuro-ophthalmology curriculum. These col-lections include video clips of patients and examinations, full PowerPoint lectures, scholarly articles in PDF format, and selected animations. Shirley H. Wray, MD, PhD, has added her remarkable collection of instructional videos of 161 patients demonstrating neurovisual disorders this year. Each of her cases includes a patient history and video clip. Many have supplementary PowerPoint and provide addi-tional information such as neuroimaging and pathology slides. The video clips have been converted to formats compatible with Flash and iPod/iPhone viewing. Soon, all video collections in NOVEL will offer these newer formats, making viewing the materials even more accessible for the practitioner needing easy access to this information. Three important additions have been made to NOVEL this year. Robert B. Daroff, MD, has contributed his classic 1,991 teaching series of 56 videos, which present a variety of eye movement disorders. Helmut Wilhelm, MD, from Universita¨ts-Augenklinik, Tubingen, Germany, is the first international contributor. His set of 39 videos also covers common eye movement and pupillary disorders. David E. Newman-Toker, MD, PhD, has provided a series of clips describing various neuro-ophthalmic techniques, a lecture on skew deviation, and 2 clips on acute vestibular syndrome. Soon he will add a detailed animation of skew deviation. Journal of Neuro-Ophthalmology Archives. The Journal of Neuro-Ophthalmology (JNO) archive collection is integrated into NOVEL searches, providing direct access to the litera-ture when seeking educational materials. The library contains the JNO archives from 1994 to the present, with a 1-year embargo for current publications. NOVEL has obtained permission to add to its collection the Journal of Clinical Neuro- Ophthalmology, the predecessor to JNO. The articles are being harvested now and will be added to NOVEL to complete the literature archive (http://NOVEL.utah.edu/jno). NANOS Annual Meeting Syllabi. To make the materials presented at the annual meeting more accessible, the syllabi are being added as a collection. The prototype, covering the 2009 meeting, is now available online. The NOVEL staff will work toward including every annual meeting syllabus since the inception of the society in 1975. All materials will be indexed and searchable through the NOVEL search function (http://NOVEL.utah.edu/nam). Patient Portal. The NOVEL Patient Portal is growing. Patient brochures created by a NANOS committee (with peer review) and the translations of those brochures into several languages (French, German, Hebrew, and Spanish) are now available. In addition, links to literature, authoritative consumer health information, relevant societies, and support groups are included when available (http://NOVEL.utah.edu/portal/). Rare Disease Registry. The Rare Disease Registry has 2 dis-eases postedwith standardized data collection tools. The registry allows NANOS members and other interested physicians to contribute both past and current cases in standard format to the appropriate data steward who will analyze the data. The goal is to allow NOVEL to be a vehicle facilitating group definition of the natural history and best therapies of disorders too rare for any single institution to define (http://NOVEL.utah.edu/rare/). Illustrated Curriculum. Based on the neuro-ophthalmology curriculum outline prepared by the NANOS Curriculum Committee, an illustrated curriculum outline is starting to take shape. Links to NOVEL materials have been added as Section Editor: Kathleen B. Digre, MD Lombardo et al: J Neuro-Ophthalmol 2010; 30: 301-302 301 Neuro-Ophthalmology News Copyright © North American Neuro-ophthalmology Society.Unauthorized reproduction of this article is prohibited. a prototype to the section covering Disorders of the Afferent and Efferent Visual Pathways. Demonstrations of a variety of examinations are also linked in the Ocular and Neurologic Evaluation section. The goal is to provide links from all sec-tions, as theNOVEL grows to provide examples of all teaching areas of the curriculum (http://NOVEL.utah.edu/curriclum). NOVEL Usage. All of these educational resources have brought much attention to NOVEL. In 2009, the Web site received 2,270,000 hits, 1,390,283 page views, and 199,974 visits from users in more than 100 countries. Approximately 440 video clips in the library were accessed. We need your financial support to continue to build this valuable resource. Tax deductible contributions may bemade at http://www.nanosweb.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageID=3477. Nancy Lombardo, MLS Kathleen B. Digre, MD Larry Frohman, MD 18th International Neuro-Ophthalmology Society (INOS) Meeting: Lyon, France, June 15-18, 2010 The 18th Meeting of the International Neuro-Oph-thalmology Society returned to France, the country that hosted the first INOS meeting 34 years ago in La Napoule, a tiny resort at the French Riviera. While the first meeting was attended by only a handful neuro-ophthal-mology enthusiasts, 350 participants from 30 countries and 5 continents gathered this year in Lyon, France. The meet-ing's venue was in a beautiful congress center built in 1996 by Italian architect and Pritzker Prize awardee, Renzo Piano. The meeting was superbly organized by Caroline Tilikete, MD and Alain Vighetto, MD, two neuro-ophthalmologists who work closely together at Universite´ Claude Bernard in Lyon. They compiled a two and a half day program of intense teaching and scientific exchange in all important and up-to-date neuro-ophthalmic topics. A variety of themes formed the centrepiece of the meeting. Each began with invited presentations followed by free papers of 10 minutes each grouped together to fit the session topic. Each afternoon was a poster seminar again organized to reflect the theme of the preceding sessions. On the last day a special lecture was given by Professor Jose´ Sahel form The Vision Institute in Paris on the latest ad-vances in his ‘‘Artificial Retina Project.'' The sessions and invited lectures were: 1. Optic neuritis Neuromyelitis optica-J. de Seze, Strasbourg, France Imaging in demyelinating optic neuritis-G. Plant, London, England 2. Optic neuropathies-genetic disorders Dominant optic atrophy-C. Hamel, Montpellier, France Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy-N. Newman, Atlanta, USA 3. Central visual function-low vision Vision, attention and eye movements-L. Pisella, Lyon, France Future of perimetry-U. Schiefer, Tubingen, Germany 4. Degenerative brain diseases Eye movements and degenerative cognitive disorders-C. Kennard, Oxford, England 5. Tumors Radiotherapy for optic pathways meningioma-N.Miller, Baltimore, USA 6. Eye movements Cerebellar control of saccades-D. Zee, Baltimore, USA Ocular motility in brainstem stroke-J.S. Kim, Seoul, South Korea 7. Pupils, extraocular muscles, orbit Thyroid orbitopathy-A. Boschi, Brussels, Belgium Horner syndrome-A. Kawasaki, Lausanne, Switzerland 8. Intracranial hypertension Treatment of IIH-N. Miller, Baltimore, USA Endovascular therapy for IIH-A. Donnet, Marseille, France 9. Immune and inflammatory disorders Tolosa-Hunt syndrome-K. Landau, Zurich, Switzerland Antiganglioside antibody syndromes-J. Trobe, Ann Arbor, USA 10. Vascular diseases Giant cell arteritis-V. Biousse, Atlanta, USA Experimental ischemic optic neuropathy-N. Goldenberg-Cohen, Tel Aviv, Israel Imaging of vascular malformations-M. Mazighi, Paris, France Despite a full and exciting scientific program time was allotted for a Welcome Ceremony, City Tour and Congress Dinner. The last event was held in Chapelle de la Trinite´ during which the attendees were treated to a program of classical music performed by Orchestre de l'Ope´ra National de Paris and operatic performed by Mlle. Laurence Janot. The evening was capped off by a birthday celebration for William F. Hoyt. INOS 2012 is planned for Singapore. See you there! Klara Landau, MD Conference organizers Caroline Tilikete, MD, and Alain Vighetto, MD. 302 Lombardo et al: J Neuro-Ophthalmol 2010; 30: 301-302 Neuro-Ophthalmology News Copyright © North American Neuro-ophthalmology Society.Unauthorized reproduction of this article is prohibited. |