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ISCEV sponsored lab visits

On the 29 November 2007, the ISCEV Board of Directors approved a new annual grant scheme for sponsored lab visits. Further details can be downloaded here PDF, RTF

Grants policy

The purpose of the ISCEV grants programme is to assist young colleagues who would otherwise be unable to attend ISCEV meetings. The Society is particularly interested in encouraging junior investigators and clinicians to enter the field of clinical electrophysiology and join ISCEV, and to foster communication with colleagues who may be affected by economic constraints beyond their control. The grants programme does not expect to provide full support to grantees, but, hopefully, to provide sufficient assistance that grantees will be able to find local funds for the remainder of the meeting costs. ISCEV grants will consist of up to 3 awards of $600 for overseas participants and up to 3 awards of $300 for participants within the geographic region of the symposium (in the sense of the three ISCEV regions: The Americas; Europe/Africa; Asia/Australia). Awardees will also be given one year's free membership of ISCEV and a 50% reduction in the meeting registration fee with the possibility of reduced-rate accomodation. Awards will be given upon registration at the conference and will be in the form of a cheque in US dollars or, in cash, in US dollars or local currency (awardee's choice). The deadline for applications is 4 months prior to the symposium. Successful grantees will be notified by 2 months prior to the symposium. Applicants who are not awarded grants will retain the privilege of registering without a late fee, should the regular application deadline have passed. Applications should be accompanied by

  1. An abstract for presentation at the meeting. A statement of circumstances including an indication of experience in clinical electro-physiology and the reason that financial assistance is required. If the applicant is a student or junior member of a programme, a letter of support from the laboratory or department director is required.
  2. A contact fax number to facilitate speedy communication of the outcome of the application.

Whilst there are no absolute criteria for acceptance or rejection, the selection committee discourages repeat applications from previously-successful applicants, multiple applications from the same laboratory, and applications from investigators with more than 5 years of experience in clinical electrophysiology. Scientific merit will be a factor in the decision process, as will relevance of the submitted abstract to the symposium topics.

 

The 3rd Emiko Adachi Award

The 2007 Emiko Adachi award for long and meritorious service to ISCEV was announced at the XLV Symposium Banquet:  Congratulations and thank you to Professor William Dawson. In addition to Prof Dawson’s many contributions to clinical electrophysiology of vision in humans and in animal models,  
He has an impressive record of service to ISCEV; he co-hosted the XXV International Symposium of ISCEV with Prof Biersdorf in Sarasota Florida, in 1987 and hosted the XLII Symposium in Puerto Rico (USA) in 2004. Prof Dawson has served on the ISCEV Board of directors as member-at-large (1995-1998) and as Vice President for the Americas (1999-2002). We look forward to the Emiko Adachi Award Lecture at the XLVI Symposium in Morgantown, WV, USA, July, 2008.

Daphne McCulloch

The 2007 DODT Award

The 2007 Eberhard Dodt Memorial Award for an outstanding presentation at ISCEV Symposium by a young scientist was awarded at the XLV Symposium in Hyderabad, India to Dr Maja Sustar (Slovenia) for her presentation, “The photopic negative response of the flash ERG to broadband and monochromatic stimuli in glaucoma and controls’.  The ISCEV Awards panel and also recognised Drs Kaoru Fujinami (Japan), Timothy Lai (Hong Kong) and Bijoy  Nair  (India) for their highly commended presentations.

Daphne L McCulloch

The 2nd Emiko Adachi Award

The 2006 Emiko Adachi award for long and meritorious service to ISCEV was announced at the XLIV Symposium Banquet:  Congratulations and thank you to Professor Eberhart Zrenner. Although Prof Zrenner has had a long and varied careerin ophthalmic research, his contributions to our society are remarkable. He has served on the ISCEV Board of directors for 17 years, in three important capacities: Treasurer 1983-1986, Secretary General 1986-1991, and president 1992-1996. We look forward to the Emiko Adachi Award Lecture at the XLIV Symposium in Hyderabad, India, August 2007.

Daphne McCulloch

The 2006 DODT Award

The 2006 Eberhard Dodt Memorial Award for an outstanding presentation at ISCEV Symposium by a young scientist was awarded to Dr Daniel Barthelmes for his presentation at the XLIV Symposium in Fontevraud France, “Detecting visual field constriction in patients with retinitis pigmentosa using quantitative OCT analysis”. The adjudicators awards panel and also recognised Drs Guylene Le Muer and Naouki Tanimoto for their highly commended presentations.

Daphne L McCulloch

 

Elections 2006

IT IS OUR PLEASURE TO ANNOUNCE THE RESULTS OF THE 2006 ISCEV ELECTIONS:

Two new members of the ISCEV Board of Officers from January 2007 are:

 

Member-at-Large Dr Mineo Kondo (Nagoya, Japan)
Member-at-Large Dr Carol Westall (Toronto, Canada)

 

THE XLVII ANNUAL ISCEV SYMPOSIUM will be held in Padova, Italy, proposed dates of 5-9 July, 2009 hosted by Dr A Patrizia Tormene.

Congratulations to our new officers and thank you to all of the candidates who offered to work for the benefit of our society.

Daphne McCulloch & David Keating

Drug Development and Clinical Trials - Special Symposium at ISCEV 2005 (Loch Lomond, Scotland)

 

Electroretinography: The FDA's Viewpoint by Wiley A Chambers

 

Download Powerpoint presentation

 

Board Nominations 2006

This year we have three ISCEV Board positions open for election or re-election. In addition, all members can nominate a candidate for the Emiko Adachi Award for outstanding service to ISCEV.

For the Emiko Adachi Award simply send me the name of your nominee by e-mail (or by any other means).  The final selection for this award will be by the Adachi Award committee.

Download award details

Please consider and nominate suitable candidates for the ISCEV board:

Vice President for Asia and Oceania (Dr. Atsuchi Mizota has served one four-year term and he is eligible and willing to stand for re-election)

Member-at-Large - no geographical constraint (Dr Vaegan has served one four-year term and he is eligible and willing to stand for re-election)

Member-at-Large - no geographical constraint (Open position vacated by Dr. Graham Holder who was elected Director of Education)

Nominations for the above Board positions should be sent to me by an ISCEV member as the nominator. Please mention another member to second the nomination and also confirm the consent of the person nominated that he/she will stand for election.

At the membership meeting in Fontevraud on 15 June, we will reduce the list
of nominees to two for position The final selection will be by a postal
vote of all members.

Finally, in 2006 we will select the location for the XLVII ISCEV Symposium in 2009. We have two generous invitations: from Padova, Italy (Dr A Patrizia Tormene) and from Slovenia (Prof Marko Hawlina and Dr Jelka Brecelj). Please let me know if you are considering inviting ISCEV for a future symposium.

Daphne McCulloch

Elections 2005

IT IS MY PLEASURE TO ANNOUNCE THE RESULTS OF THE 2005 ISCEV ELECTIONS:

Two new members of the ISCEV Board of Officers from January 2006 ARE:

Prof Laura Frishman; Editor-in-Chief, Documenta Ophthalmologica Prof Marko Hawlina; Board Member-at-Large

THE XLVI ANNUAL ISCEV SYMPOSIUM will be held in Morgantown, West Virginia, USA 11-16 July, 2008 hosted by our out going Editor-in-Chief, Prof J Vernon Odom.

Congratulations to our new officers and thank you to all of the candidates who offered to work for the benefit of our society.

Daphne McCulloch

 

 

Symposium in honour of Prof Zrenner's 60th Birthday

 

On November 4th and 5th, 2005, a very successful symposium on the Function and Dysfunction of Vision was held in Tübingen in honour of Professor Zrenner's 60th Birthday. Many ISCEV members were among the delegates including four former and current ISCEV Presidents, three Secretaries-General and three former Treasurers. Remarkably, in Prof Zrenner's busy career, he has held all of the above ISCEV Board positions! Our four presidents (Prof SE Nilson, Prof E Zrenner, Prof Y Miyake and Prof M Bach) are shown in this unique picture which was taken by Prof C Barber.

 

 

Daphne McCulloch

 

The 1st Emiko Adachi Award

The first award  for long and meritorious service to ISCEV was announced at the XLIII Symposium Banquet:  Congratulations and thank you to Professor Colin Barber. This is truly a fitting honour for our longest-standing Secretary-General who has done so much to shape the substance and character of ISCEV. We look forward to the first Emiko Adachi Award Lecture at the XLIV Symposium in Fontevraud, France, June 2006.

Daphne McCulloch & David Keating

The 2005 DODT Award

 
In this 10th year, Mrs. Elke Dodt, supporter and widow of Prof. Dodt, was in attendance to present the 2005 Eberhard Dodt Award to an outstanding young scientist at the ISCEV Symposium.

Congratulations to
Dr Ruth Hamilton of Glasgow who presented her paper based on her recently completed PhD research “The electroretinogram in preterm infants”.


On the strength of the scientific presentations, the Awards Panel selected two highly commended young scientists, Dr. Gil Ben-Shlomo for his presentation, “COP-1 treatment preserves inner retinal function, evidenced by pattern electroretinography, in the rat ocular hypertension model” and Dr. Pedro Gonzalez, for his presentation “The assessment of neuro-retinal toxicity in patients with epilepsy on Vigabtrin”.

  
Congratulations, to our honoured young scientists.

Daphne McCulloch & David Keating

Election Results

August 2005: finalised at the 2005 membership meeting in Glasgow. The votes were counted, checked and verified by another Board member, as required by the Bye-Laws. The results are as follows:

 

Treasurer Prof Ulrich Kellner (Berlin) elected for his second term
Director of Education Dr Graham E Holder (London) held this post as member at large

 

Congratulations to our returning ISCEV Board Officers !

 

Upcoming Elections

 

A short list of two candidates was selected at the 2005 membership meeting for the following positions on the ISCEV Board of Directors (listed here in alphabetical order).

 

Editor-in-Chief of Documenta Ophthalmologica

Member-at-Large (no geographical constraint)

Candidate statements and postal ballots will be sent in October 2005

 

Daphne McCulloch & David Keating

Invitations from the Americas for the XLVI Symposium of ISCEV in 2008

 

Following ISCEV tradition, the membership will vote for the upcoming Symposium location along with the postal ballot mentioned above.

 

Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA Invitation from Dr Mitchell Brigell
Morgantown, West Virginia, USA Invitation from Prof J Vernon Odom

 

Daphne McCulloch & David Keating

Professor Miyake honoured

 

After his retirement as Professor of Ophthalmology at Nagoya University, former ISCEV president Yozo Miyake was promoted to the Director of National Institute of Sensory Organs in Japan this year. Prof. Myiake's great contributions to our society for more than twenty years are well known to ISCEV members. A major success resulting from ingenious use of the focal ERG has lead to a number of relevant insights into retinal diseases. We are very proud of his promotion to the highest position in Japanese Ophthalmologic Society, and express our sincerest congratulations.

 

Dr Mineo Kondo & Prof Michael Bach

 

2005 - Board nominations

Elections for the following positions are due in 2005. Preliminary elections took place at the membership meeting on 27 August during the LXIII ISCEV Symposium in Glasgow. (Postal vote for final selections will follow).

 

Editor of Documenta Ophthalmologica (Prof. Odom has served 2 terms and is not eligible for re-election)

Director of Education new board position (Dr. Graham Holder, Director of Education, will complete two terms as member-at-large at the end of 2005 )

Member at Large no geographical constraint (vacated by Dr. Mitch Brigell who was elected Director of Standards)

Treasurer (Prof. Kellner has served one term and is eligible for a second term)

To nominate someone, write to the Secretary-General specifying the Board Position, the name of the proposed candidate, the name of a seconder for the nomination and the signed consent of the candidate. Candidates letters may be sent separately. They should state that they are willing to stand for the position and, if elected, they are willing to fulfil the duties of the office.


Daphne L. McCulloch  
Secretary General of ISCEV  
Department of Vision Sciences telephone: +44 141 331 3379
Glasgow Caledonian University fax: +44 141 331 3387
Cowcaddens Road e-mail: dlmc@gcal.ac.uk
Glasgow G4 0BA  
United Kingdom  

 

Daphne McCulloch & David Keating

Election Results

November 2004: The full results of the latest ISCEV elections that took place in Puerto Rico are shown below. The votes were counted, checked and verified by another Board member, as required by the Bye-Laws. The results are as follows:

 

Secretary General Prof Daphne McCulloch (Glasgow)
Vice-president (Europe and Africa) Prof Colin Barber (Nottingham)
Director of International Communications Dr David Keating (Glasgow)
Director of Standards Dr Mitch Brigell (Ann Arbor)
Member-at-Large Prof Masayuki Horiguchi (Toyoake City)
Member-at-Large Prof Pierre Lachapelle (Montreal)

 

Thank you for your participation.

Colin Barber & David Keating

Emiko Adachi's Award

The award , in the value of $3000, is provided through a generous endowment from Emiko Adachi upon retirement from her position as Professor and Chair of the Department of Ophthalmology at Chiba University, Japan. Hers was a long and glorious career with many honours, culminating in official recognition from the Japanese government. Despite all of this, she remained extraordinarily proud of her long membership of ISCEV, and her outstanding record of sevice to our society. The award is given annually to someone who, to some degree, has matched this record of service to ISCEV.

Nomination deadline is extended to Friday 6th May , 2005. Full details of the nomination process is available here as a pdf document.

Emiko Adachi Award details (PDF)

 

David Keating & Daphne McCulloch

 

The 2004 DODT Award

 

The winner of the 2004 Dodt Award was Dr Chi Luu. Professor Eberhart Zrenner , President of the Society for the Advancement of Neuro-ophthalmological Sciences, which administers the award on behalf of ISCEV presented the prize.

Dr Luu presented a most interesting poster describing a study which has contributed to the understanding of myopia on the one hand and the action of myopia on the electroretinogram on the other. The full text of Professer Zrenner's speech will be in the Newsletter. Unfortunately Frau Dodt was not able to be present at the award ceremony, but she sent a letter via Prof Zrenner which is reproduced in ISCEV News Extra.

Congratulations to Dr Chi Luu.

Colin Barber & David Keating

Election Results

February 2004: The results of the latest ISCEV elections have been counted and have been checked and verified by another Board member (Prof. Yozo Miyake), as required by the Bye-laws. The results are as follows:

Thank you for your participation!

Colin Barber & Michael Bach

 

ISCEV member Emiko Adachi-Usami honoured

Prof. Emiko Adachi-Usami received the “Medal with Purple Ribbon” from the Japanese goverment. She received this award on account of her tremendous contributions to Retinitis Pigmentosa Society as well as her electrophysiological works in ophthalmology.

Our warmest felicitations, Dr. Adachi-Usami!

Michael Bach

ISCEV member John Robson elected as Fellow of the Royal Society

The Royal Society, the UK national academy of science, has elected our colleague John Robson as Fellow. John Robson has contributed with many sophisticated investigations to our society. He is also a most knowledgeable co-author of the new calibration guidelines which will appear shortly in Documenta Ophthalmologica (2003, volume 107, issue 1). We are proud to have him as ISCEV member and feel that this is prestigious award is well deserved.

Congratulations, John!

Michael Bach

 

Former ISCEV president Eberhart Zrenner received Order of Merit

On Saturday, 22 November 2002, Eberhart Zrenner was awarded  the “Bundesverdienstkreuz am Bande”, the “Order of Merit” of the Federal Republic of Germany. He was honoured for his long-standing commitment to research in the field of Retinal Degenerations and for his efforts  as chairman of Pro Retina’s scientific committee on behalf of the patient self-help organization “Pro Retina Deutschland”.

  

The medal was conferred by Regierungspräsident Hubert Wicker  in lieu of President Johannes Rau during a festive ceremony commemorating the 25th anniversary of the founding of the German Retinitis Pigmentosa Association.

Eberhart Zrenner has been an active member of ISCEV for many years and successfully served as president. We are very proud of him!

News on Documenta Ophthalmologica

Since Peter Butler took over the management of our Journal at Kluwer, many aspects are improving:

 

Colin Barber & Michael Bach  


Election Results

April 2002: The results of the latest ISCEV elections have been counted and have been checked and verified by another Board member, as required by the Bye-laws. The results are as follows:

Thank you for your participation!

Colin Barber & Michael Bach

Documenta Ophthalmologica, special issue
“The rise and fall of vision: from pediatric to geriatric electrophysiology”

You will recall that one of the topic of this year's ISCEV Symposium was: “The rise and fall of vision: from pediatric to geriatric electrophysiology”. Following the Symposium, the Editorial Board of Documenta Ophthalmologica (our Journal) has agreed to a special issue that would include significant papers on these topics.

Those interested in contributing (human or animal studies) to this special issue of Documenta must take the following deadlines into consideration:
Statement of intent to submit: January 1, 2002
Receipt of final manuscript: April 1, 2002

We would appreciate if you consider submitting a manuscript to this special issue following the detailed instructions of Documenta Ophthalmologica. The paper would then, of course, be peer-reviewed.

If you have any questions regarding this matter, please contact either of us at your earliest convenience.

Sincerely yours,

Pierre Lachapelle,   pierre.lachapelle@staff.mcgill.ca
and
Jelka Brecelj,   jelka.brecelj@kclj.si

Documenta Ophthalmologica, special issue
“Genetic Diseases and Animal Models”

A special issue of Documenta Ophthalmologica is planned that will be dedicated to the topic of 'Genetic Diseases and Animal Models'. As you may remember, this was a major theme of the ISCEV meeting held recently in Orford, Quebec. We hope that ISCEV members will consider submitting a manuscript to this special issue. If so, please bear in mind the following deadlines:

Statement of intent to submit -- January 1, 2002
Receipt of final manuscript -- April 1, 2002

If you have any questions regarding this matter, please contact either of us at your earliest convenience.

Pierre Lachapelle, 514-412-4480 x23890, pierre.lachapelle@staff.mcgill.ca
or
Neal Peachey, 216-445-1942, peachen@ccf.org

NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH NEWS RELEASE

Thursday, January 11, 2001

Paul A. Sieving, M.D., Ph.D., Named Director, National Eye Institute

Ruth L. Kirschstein, M.D., acting director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), today announced the appointment of Paul A. Sieving, M.D., Ph.D., as director of the National Eye Institute (NEI). Dr. Sieving is currently the Paul R. Lichter Professor of Ophthalmic Genetics and director, Center for Retinal and Macular Degeneration, at the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Michigan Kellogg Eye Center, Ann Arbor. He will join the NEI in late spring.

Paul has been an active member of ISCEV for many years. We are very proud of him and wish him a happy & successful office there.

CEVnet – The ISCEV discussion list (CEVnet@mssm.edu)

CEVnet 1-year update (January 2002)

CEVnet, the on-line discussion list-server sponsored by ISCEV, has completed its first year of operation. Many thanks to those who participated in this new forum. Overall, in the past year, traffic on CEVnet ran at the rate of approximately one message per day, creating about 70 ‘threads’ of linked discussion topics and responses.

I am working on creating a ‘digest’ of the entire first year's CEVnet traffic, which will allow participants to review old messages on a central server and allow everyone the opportunity to free up disk space on their personal computer without losing access to our prior discussions. We are also planning to provide a summary of CEVnet highlights for the year in Documenta, the ISCEV journal.

Please make every effort to keep your email address on our master list up to date. CEVnet users are frequently annoyed by “failure to deliver” messages sent by member's email servers due to changes in their email address. In order to minimize this problem, I will start actively deleting from the CEVnet address list those addresses which repeatedly reject CEVnet messages. (A second test-message for this purpose will go out shortly.)

Please email any changes of email address to Scott Brodie, CEVnet Moderator, at scott.brodie@mssm.edu (with a cc to d.keating@clinmed.gla.ac.uk) as well as requests to be added or dropped from the CEVnet list. Remember that the server will accept messages only from active email addresses -- if you (or your email server) change your email address, but continue to receive CEVnet messages through an automatic forwarding arrangement, you will not be able to post CEVnet messages until your email listing is updated.

Those ISCEV members who were reluctant to participate in CEVnet for fear of overwhelming their email in-box should be reassured that our experience in 2001 indicates that this need not be of concern, and are warmly invited to reconsider for 2002!

Happy New Year,   Scott.
Scott E. Brodie, MD, PhD
Moderator, CEVnet
New York
scott.brodie@mssm.edu

Starting 1 January 2001 Scott E. Brodie has set up a mailing list "CEVnet". Any ISCEV member wishing to change her status (receiving / not receiving) can contact the CEVnet moderator at Scott.Brodie@mssm.edu.

Some details on list policy

Our intention is to provide an e-mail forum for informal discussions of interesting or perplexing cases, technical issues, economics, and any other matters of interest to the membership. Many of our members are already in the habit of sending an occasional e-mail query to knowledgeable colleagues; the list-sever should greatly facilitate these exchanges, and broaden the international pool of expertise on which we all may call.

The operation of the list will be closely modelled after the very successful "Ped-Ophth" list-server, operated under the auspices of the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus ("AAPOS") for the last several years. If their experience is any guide, you may expect to encounter no more that a few postings each day.

If this does not appeal to you at all, even for a trial period, you may unsubscribe at any time by sending an e-note to Scott Brodie, the list moderator, at Scott.Brodie@mssm.edu requesting that your e-mail address be removed from the list. If you change your mind, just use the same address to request that you be re-instated.

In order to post a message to the list, simply send it by e-mail to CEVnet@mssm.edu. Your message will promptly be relayed to everyone on the discussion group mailing list.

The list will operate under the following guidelines:

  1. Participation in CEVnet is restricted to ISCEV members. Non-members who wish to participate should join!
  2. All posted messages must be signed by their author(s) -- no anonymous posts.
  3. All patient discussions are to be considered purely hypothetical, for illustrative purposes only. Clinical summaries should contain no information which identifies the patient under discussion. No doctor-patient relationship is to be implied by or inferred from participation in on-line discussions.
  4. Discussions on the list are to be considered confidential. Messages posted on the list should not be reproduced or forwarded elsewhere without the consent of the the authors of the message.
  5. Waveforms and images posted on the list may be used by participants for appropriate scientific or educational purposes. Please acknowledge the original author(s) in any lectures or publications.
  6. Commercial interests: authors must acknowledge any commercial interest in items which they discuss, or in any competing item.
  7. "Flames" and disparaging personal remarks will not be tolerated, and may result in deletion from the list.

WAVEFORMS

Participants are encouraged to post waveforms as part of their discussions or queries. We hope that, over time, the waveforms posted on CEVnet will constitute a library of real clinical data available to members for comparison or reference.
After considerable experimentation we have adopted a format for posting waveforms which should work well for nearly all users, regardless of the brand of computer or electrophysiology equipment they use:

1) Waveforms are to be sent as spreadsheets, in the form of "tab-delimited text" files.

2) Each waveform spreadsheet should be laid out as follows:
1st Column: time-axis, with times in msec. Pre-stimulus baseline to be indicated by negative numbers. Stimulus should occur at time 0.
Subsequent Columns: waveform data, in microvolts. Do NOT repeat the time axis.
All numbers should be written with explicit decimal points. Please indicate decimal points by a ".", not a "," -- for example: "183.5", not "183,5".
Text, such as waveform identifiers, or other comments, may be added after the last row of data.

Most users will be able to generate these files by importing their waveform data into a spreadsheet program, and then saving it in "text" or "ASCII" format.

In order to view waveforms, save the attached data file on your computer, and then import it to your favorite spreadsheet program as a "tab-delimited" text file. Use your spreadseet program's graphing utilities to plot the data. (For example, when using Excel, the "XY (scatter)" plot format automatically uses the first column for the (horizontal) time axis, and plots the remaining columns as separate waveforms.)

IMAGES

Participants are encouraged to post images, such as fundus photographs, as part of their discussions or queries. PLEASE be respectful of the limited internet bandwidth and finite hard discs of your colleages – do NOT attach image files directly to your posted messages. Instead, please place your image file (preferably in a compressed format such as JPEG) on a convenient web server, and place a LINK to your image file in your posted CEVnet message. If you do not have access to a suitable web server, you may send your image file to either Scott Brodie (CEVnet moderator) at Scott.Brodie@mssm.edu or to David Keating (ISCEV web-master) at d.keating@clinmed.gla.ac.uk
They will place your file on a local web server, and reply with the URL for you to include as a link in your CEVnet message.

A few final suggestions

Ask questions. Share your unusual or perplexing cases, or even particularly illustrative examples of straightforward cases. You will be pleasantly surprised at the expertise your colleagues are willing to share.

If you have something knowlegeable to add to the discussion, please contribute. Many remarks which may seem "obvious" to you may not be obvious to the rest of us.

If you have nothing useful to add, do not clutter up the list with useless chatter. This self-restraint is what has led to the success of the Ped-Ophth list. I am confident we can do as well.

Keep it informal. Have fun.

Best regards,
Scott. (your CEVnet moderator)
Scott E. Brodie, MD, PhD
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
New York

Member Requests top

April 2000
Hello,
I am trying to locate someone who may help me solve a problem. I hope to find someone who is using Hewlett Packard's HPVEE program to record electrophysiological response. I am being interrupted at times by Windows 95 and I don't know how to stop it. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Bob Dippner. Email: dippnerr@pioneer.nevada.edu

1999
Help wanted: Request for used electrophysiological equipment
Dear Colleagues,
I am writing this to ask you for some help in getting used ERG/VEP equipment for a new lab in Poznañ. We look also for some ERG apparatus for animal studies. Since the equipment is still very expensive, we would be most satisfied with the used one. I humbly ask all ISCEV colleagues again to ask for your help.
With best wishes,
Dr Andrzej Grzybowski, POLAND. Email: grzyb@mail.usoms.poznan.pl

LKC Systems Users-group
Our Department, which has been involved in Visual Electrophysiology for over 20 years, is interested in establishing an LKC UTAS Systems Users-group (essentially via email). We purchased a UTAS-E 3000 eighteen months ago and little ‘first-hand’ information from experienced users was, or is, available. As there are now many systems being used internationally, such a group set up for dissemination of information may be beneficial for all those involved. If you wish to be included, please contact me at the address below, and I will be happy to enter you into a register of LKC UTAS-users.
Serena Kay, Scientific Officer, Department of Medical Technology and Physics, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Nedlands, Perth, Western Australia 6009
email: skay@mtp.pd.uwa.edu.au
Phone: +618 9346 2866 Fax: +618 9346 3466

Positions 

 

Vision Research Scientist

Royal Liverpool University Hospital

3 year fixed term contract

This proposed position is for a graduate scientist to participate in our research and clinical trials work in ophthalmology in Liverpool . The main trials at present are in age related macular degeneration (AMD). The scientist will be expected to perform electrophysiological tests mainly, but possibly other psychophysical measurements and imaging as the specific trials require. He/she will be a member of several research/teams and expected to take part in the planning, organisation, patient and data management, analysis and publication of results.

Depending on the candidate, he/she will be expected to participate in the provision of diagnostic electrophysiology, and for this, training will be given.

It would be an advantage to be a Registered Clinical Scientist ( UK registration with the Health Professionals Council). For suitable candidates we may be able to tailor the job description so that the years in post would be recognised training for the Association of Clinical Scientists (ACS) accreditation scheme for State Registration.

A background in physiology, physics, engineering or mathematics is considered suitable, and candidates with a relevant Ph.D. would be especially favoured.

The Clinical Engineering Department in Liverpool supports clinical and research ophthalmology using electrophysiology (adult and paediatric), data management, statistics, artificial intelligence (AI) applied to eye cancer success rates, AI applied to differential diagnosis in strabismus, and advanced signal processing in electrophysiology. There are also projects in corneal surface mapping and in performance and biocompatibility of implantable materials.

We are seeking expressions of interest in the above position before preparing an exact job description for NHS banding under the Agenda for Change programme.

 

Confidential enquiries about the position should be directed to Dr. Malcolm Brown on +44 151 706 4202, or by email to MalcolmBrown@btinternet.com

Do not send CVs at this stage, only the briefest details about yourself and your possible interest in a position.

 

October 2007

MCBrown

 

 

Website Development

We are grateful to Michael Bach for constructing our ISCEV website in 1996 and for maintenance of the site until 2004. Further details on key stages can be found here.

<The ISCEV website>

 

 

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