ESCRS news and updates

ESCRS Academy members (from left) Sathish Srinivasan, Thomas Kohnen, Ewa Mrukwa-Kominek, Boris Malyugin, Simonetta Morselli, Bekir Sitki Aslan, Roberto Bellucci, Vladimir Pfeifer and Zoltan Nagy ESCRS ACADEMY IN MOSCOW Ophthalmologists from Russia and surrounding countries gathered in Moscow for the XVII National Cataract and Refractive Surgery Congress, which was attended by more than 1,500 delegates. The congress was held at the S. Fyodorov Eye Microsurgery Federal State Institution. The meeting programme included a broad range of topics including femtosecond laser assisted cataract surgery, refractive corrections in complicated cases, and small incision lenticule extraction. One of the major highlights of the meeting was the ESCRS Academy, organised jointly by the ESCRS and the Russian Ophthalmology Society on Friday, 28 October. The Academy featured a half-day programme on ‘Difficult and Challenging Cases in Cataract Surgery’, with lectures on topics including combined cataract and glaucoma, lens subluxation, uveitis, high astigmatism and cataract surgery in patients after corneal refractive procedures. The Academy was co-chaired by ESCRS past president Roberto Bellucci, Chief of the ESCRS Academy Programme, and Boris Malyugin, President of the Russian Ophthalmological Society. €50,000 ESCRS Peter Barry Fellowship The ESCRS has announced details of the annual fellowship set up to honour the immense contribution of Peter Barry FRCS to European and global ophthalmology. Dr Barry, who served as ESCRS President in 2012 and 2013, died after a short illness in May 2016. The fellowship of €50,000 will enable a trainee ophthalmologist from Europe to study at a centre of excellence anywhere in the world. Applicants for the fellowship must meet the following criteria: *Be a European trainee ophthalmologist *Be 35 years of age or under on the closing date for applications 
(30 April 2017) * Have been an ESCRS member for three years at the time of taking up the fellowship (if successful) To apply, please submit the following: *A detailed, up-to-date CV *A letter of intent of 1-2 pages, outlining your choice of centre for undertaking the fellowship, and the reasons why you feel you would benefit from the fellowship *A letter of recommendation from your head of department *A letter from your potential host institution, agreeing to accept you on the fellowship (if successful) All completed applications should be sent by email to Danielle Maher at: 
danielle.maher@escrs.org The deadline for submission of all applications is: 30 April 2017 See also: http://www.escrs.org/about-escrs/ESCRS-Peter-Barry-Fellowship.asp ESCRS ONLINE MUSEUM The ESCRS has launched an online museum which shows historic videos from some of the great innovators in ophthalmology. The videos, which are submitted by ophthalmologists, are studied, verified and curated by Dr Richard Packard and Prof Andrzej Grzybowski and date back to the 1930s. The videos are featured on the ESCRS Player at: http://player.escrs.org/category/online-muesum By viewing these videos, ophthalmologists can gain an insight into the rich history of the profession, learning from those who have gone before. The online museum includes the first LASIK procedure in 1990 by Prof Ioannis Pallikaris, a video of the logbook from 1949 showing a summary of Sir Harold Ridley’s operations from 1949 and 1950, and a video from Prof HJM Weve showing an intracapsular extraction in the late 1930s. All the videos that we receive and publish will be fully credited, downloaded by users, and the originals will be returned to their authors. Videos should be submitted to: 
museum@escrs.org JOHN HENAHAN PRIZE CALL FOR ENTRIES Entries are now being invited for the 2017 John Henahan Writing Prize. The topic for the essay is How does commercial interest affect my career? The judges will draw up an initial shortlist of the five best essays submitted and will then decide on 
the winning essay. The shortlisted essays and the winning essay will be published in EuroTimes. The competition is open to ophthalmologists who are members of the ESCRS and aged 40 years or under on 1 January 2017. The winner of the prize will receive a €1,000 travel bursary to the XXXV Congress of the ESCRS in Lisbon, Portugal, and will be presented with a specially-commissioned trophy during the ESCRS Video Competition Awards ceremony. Entries should be 850 words 
and should be sent to Colin Kerr, EuroTimes Executive Editor, in 
Microsoft Word document format to: 
henprize@eurotimes.org. The closing date for entries is Friday, 31 March 2017. For further information visit: 
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