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American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology 1977 Meeting
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF OPHTHALMOLOGY FRANK
W. NEWELL, Editor-in-Chief
233 East Ontario St., Chicago, Illinois 60611 EDITORIAL BOARD Mathea R. Allansmith, Boston Douglas R. Anderson, Miami Crowell Beard, San Jose Bernard Becker, Si. Louis Benjamin F. Boyd, Panama Charles J. Campbell, New York Ronald E. Carr, New York Thomas Chalkley, Chicago Claes H. Dohlman, Boston Sir Stewart Duke-Elder, London Fred Ederer, Bethesda
J. Terry Ernest, Madison DuPont Guerry III, Richmond Paul Henkind, Bronx Robert W. Hollenhorst, Rochester Herbert E. Kaufman, Gainesville Arthur H. Keeney, Louisville Bertha A. Klien, Tucson ^arl Kupfer Bethesda ] ^ s~ ~^e"^j'^g ° ^ ^ w a l d M^mène^Baltimore I r e n e H Maumenee, Baltimore Edward W. D. Norton, Miami
G. Richard O'Connor, San Francisco Arnall Patz, Baltimore Steven M. Podos, New York Albert M. Potts, Louisville Algernon B. Reese, New York Robert D. Reinecke, Albany Marvin L. Sears, New Haven D a v i d s h o c h Chicago Bruce E. Spivey, San Francisco Bradley R Straatsma ' . Los Angeles Gunter K. von Noorden, Houston
Published monthly by the Ophthalmic Publishing Company 233 East Ontario St., Chicago, Illinois 60611 Directors: A. EDWABD MAUMENEE, President; DAVID SHOCH, Vice President; FRANK W. NEWELL, Secretary and Treasurer; EDWARD W. D. NORTON, BRUCE E. SPIVEY, BRADLEY R. STRAATSMA
The guests of honor, Joaquin Barraquer of Barcelona, Spain, and A. Edward Mau menee of the Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute, were greeted with standing ova tions. Carl Kupfer, Director of the Nation Under the sagacious and energetic al Eye Institute since its establishment leadership of President Bradley R. Straat and responsible for its ever increasing sma, the 82nd Annual Meeting of the scientific accomplishments and influ American Academy of Ophthalmology ence, received the Public Service Award and Otolaryngology was held in Dallas, in Ophthalmology. Thirty-seven individ Texas, Oct. 2-6, 1977. As always, the uals received the Honor Award of the assembly can be described only in super Academy for their contribution to the latives: 21 satellite groups with scientific continuing education program, the scien programs, 257 instruction courses, 47 sci tific program, scientific exhibits, or the entific exhibits, 11 scientific films, 167 instruction program. technical exhibitors, and 106 scientific William A. Spencer gave the XXXIV papers, including symposia. There were Edward Jackson Lecture, "Drusen of the innumerable breakfasts, luncheons, re optic disk and aberrant exoplasmic trans ceptions, alumni meetings, and gather port." It will appear in an early issue of ings of old friends, former residents, T H E JOURNAL. The symposia dealt with teachers, and colleagues; in other words, postoperative endophthalmitis, blepharoa typical Academy, as crowded as ever plastic procedures, surgery of the lacrimai with some 12,000 registrants. system, amblyopia, cataract surgery, and AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY AND OTOLARYNGOLOGY 1977 MEETING
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complications of surgery. These papers will appear in a new publication, "Oph thalmology," the successor to the "Trans actions of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology." Beginning in January 1978 "Ophthal mology" will become a monthly under the continued editorial direction of Stan ley Truhlsen and his editorial board. The fellowship of the unincorporated American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology, which has governed the Academy since 1896, approved incor poration. Notice was served that resolu tions will be introduced at the next annu al business meeting, proposing division of the incorporated Academy into two separate and autonomous successor cor porations, the American Academy of Ophthalmology and the American Acade my of Otolaryngology. The Academy Di vision of Ophthalmology will meet in Kansas City, Missouri, Oct. 22-26, 1978. New positions of Executive VicePresident were created for each division. Bruce E. Spivey was elected for Ophthal mology and C M . Kos for Otolaryngolo gy. Eugene Delacki was named President and Frederick C. Biodi, President-elect. Tullos O. Coston of Oklahoma City was named Second Vice-President. Robert D. Reinecke succeeded Dr. Biodi as Secre tary for Ophthalmology (deadline for pa pers and scientific exhibits is March 15, 1978; address inquiries and abstracts to the American Academy of Ophthalmolo gy, 15 Second St., S.W., Rochester, MN 55901). David Shoch continues as Secre tary for Instruction in Ophthalmology. Byron Demorest was named to a two-year term as member-at-large for the Council. One heard so many papers that it is difficult to select the highlights. Topical instillation of 10% phenylephrine is dan gerous in elderly patients particularly after sympathetic blocade. Panelists have seen a surprisingly large number of pa tients with endophthalmitis after intraoc
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ular surgery. Aspiration of both vitreous and aqueous humor followed by Gram stain and fastidious culture was empha sized. A double-masked crossover study of calcium dobesilate indicated no bene ficial effect on nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy. No surgery is without risk and unexpected complications are being seen after vitreous surgery, phacoemulsification, and intraocular lens implants. There were exciting studies in amblyopia dealing with the active suppression that occurs after failure of foveal stimulation. Careful lens extraction by a good surgeon gives exceptionally good results. Current manpower studies indicate that there is no excess of ophthalmologists. The Dia betic Retinopathy Study continues to indicate good results with photocoagulation, but these results in complicated dia betic retinopathy are poorer. This meeting marks the beginning of a new Academy of Ophthalmology that has an initial membership of 7,881. The con vention dates for subsequent years were published in the News Items of T H E J O U R NAL (August, 1977). It is evident that the group will not return to the Palmer House or to Chicago for some time. Indeed, the Palmer House could not accommodate the ophthalmic audience at the last meet ing there in 1969. McCormick Place, the new Chicago convention center, has its main arena booked through 1988 and its basement has a nine-foot ceiling that is inadequate for the technical exhibitors. Thus, the Academy Division of Ophthal mology goes to Kansas City in 1978, and in subsequent years, on to San Francisco, New Orleans, and Atlantic City. All of these cities have new convention facili ties with new hotels that seem likely to be able to house the Academy Division. The atmosphere at this 1977 meeting, the last with our otolaryngology confrees, was a mixture of enthusiasm and expecta tion for the new groups combined with nostalgic pride for 82 years of a conspicu-
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ously successful society. We now look forward to an exciting, slimmer, and even more effective Academy, providing new and better services to its fellows. F R A N K W.
NEWELL
T H E COPYRIGHT LAW REVISION O F 1976 AND T H E AMERICAN JOURNAL O F OPHTHALMOLOGY The 1976 revision of the copyright law changes the previous relationship be tween the authors and the publishers of T H E A M E R I C A N JOURNAL O F O P H T H A L M O L O G Y . Under the 1909 law, transfer of
manuscripts to the publisher conveyed with it all rights except those explicitly retained or transferred elsewhere. Effec tive January 1, 1978, the publisher has only the right to reproduce and distribute the manuscript in a collective work (such as a complete issue of T H E J O U R N A L ) , any revision of the collective work, or a later issue in the same series. All rights to subsidiary publication of any single arti cle remain with the author or authors of that article unless transferred in writing. The right to reproduce the individual article, the right to prepare derivative works, and the right to distribute copies reside with each author. These may only be transferred in writing. " The two basic exceptions to the rule are as follows: 1. Works made for hire (the copyright resides with the editor for whom the work was prepared). 2. Works of the United States government—work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States govern ment as a part of that person's official duties. Explicit transfer of copyright is the key to policy changes that the publishers of T H E JOURNAL must consider. In order to
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exercise additional rights, such as grant ing permission to reprint or translate a given article or the publication of a col lection of articles dealing with the same topic that have appeared in T H E J O U R NAL, we must secure the explicit, written, signed assignment of those rights from each author. In common with many periodical pub lishers we have developed and begun to use transfer documents to obtain all those rights we would otherwise lose after 1977. Although the law permits any writ ten and signed conveyance, potential legal problems may be reduced by docu ments that best show the existence of a valid contract, which has a legal object, is a written, mutual agreement voluntarily entered by parties of legal capacity, all of whom have signed it, and which ha§ an exchange of consideration. Since consid eration must be something of value, in its simplest form it may be the promise to publish and distribute in exchange for all rights to a manuscript. In the case of multiple authors we shall request the au thor submitting the typescript to obtain the signatures of co-authors. In requesting the transfer of all rights we have no intention of restricting or infringing on authors' rights to publish their material in a subsequent work of which they may be either author or editor. We do, however, seek to ensure the widest possible distribution of scientific infor mation and to facilitate its dissemination. M A R Y L. B O R Y S E W I C Z
BOOK REVIEWS Reading Aids for the Partially Sighted: A Systematic Classification and Proce dure for Prescribing. By Louise L. Sloan. Baltimore, Williams and Wilkins, 1977. Clothbound, 150 pages, table of contents, index, 13 tables, 38 black and white figures. $11.95
W. NEWELL, Editor-in-Chief
233 East Ontario St., Chicago, Illinois 60611 EDITORIAL BOARD Mathea R. Allansmith, Boston Douglas R. Anderson, Miami Crowell Beard, San Jose Bernard Becker, Si. Louis Benjamin F. Boyd, Panama Charles J. Campbell, New York Ronald E. Carr, New York Thomas Chalkley, Chicago Claes H. Dohlman, Boston Sir Stewart Duke-Elder, London Fred Ederer, Bethesda
J. Terry Ernest, Madison DuPont Guerry III, Richmond Paul Henkind, Bronx Robert W. Hollenhorst, Rochester Herbert E. Kaufman, Gainesville Arthur H. Keeney, Louisville Bertha A. Klien, Tucson ^arl Kupfer Bethesda ] ^ s~ ~^e"^j'^g ° ^ ^ w a l d M^mène^Baltimore I r e n e H Maumenee, Baltimore Edward W. D. Norton, Miami
G. Richard O'Connor, San Francisco Arnall Patz, Baltimore Steven M. Podos, New York Albert M. Potts, Louisville Algernon B. Reese, New York Robert D. Reinecke, Albany Marvin L. Sears, New Haven D a v i d s h o c h Chicago Bruce E. Spivey, San Francisco Bradley R Straatsma ' . Los Angeles Gunter K. von Noorden, Houston
Published monthly by the Ophthalmic Publishing Company 233 East Ontario St., Chicago, Illinois 60611 Directors: A. EDWABD MAUMENEE, President; DAVID SHOCH, Vice President; FRANK W. NEWELL, Secretary and Treasurer; EDWARD W. D. NORTON, BRUCE E. SPIVEY, BRADLEY R. STRAATSMA
The guests of honor, Joaquin Barraquer of Barcelona, Spain, and A. Edward Mau menee of the Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute, were greeted with standing ova tions. Carl Kupfer, Director of the Nation Under the sagacious and energetic al Eye Institute since its establishment leadership of President Bradley R. Straat and responsible for its ever increasing sma, the 82nd Annual Meeting of the scientific accomplishments and influ American Academy of Ophthalmology ence, received the Public Service Award and Otolaryngology was held in Dallas, in Ophthalmology. Thirty-seven individ Texas, Oct. 2-6, 1977. As always, the uals received the Honor Award of the assembly can be described only in super Academy for their contribution to the latives: 21 satellite groups with scientific continuing education program, the scien programs, 257 instruction courses, 47 sci tific program, scientific exhibits, or the entific exhibits, 11 scientific films, 167 instruction program. technical exhibitors, and 106 scientific William A. Spencer gave the XXXIV papers, including symposia. There were Edward Jackson Lecture, "Drusen of the innumerable breakfasts, luncheons, re optic disk and aberrant exoplasmic trans ceptions, alumni meetings, and gather port." It will appear in an early issue of ings of old friends, former residents, T H E JOURNAL. The symposia dealt with teachers, and colleagues; in other words, postoperative endophthalmitis, blepharoa typical Academy, as crowded as ever plastic procedures, surgery of the lacrimai with some 12,000 registrants. system, amblyopia, cataract surgery, and AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY AND OTOLARYNGOLOGY 1977 MEETING
877
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complications of surgery. These papers will appear in a new publication, "Oph thalmology," the successor to the "Trans actions of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology." Beginning in January 1978 "Ophthal mology" will become a monthly under the continued editorial direction of Stan ley Truhlsen and his editorial board. The fellowship of the unincorporated American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology, which has governed the Academy since 1896, approved incor poration. Notice was served that resolu tions will be introduced at the next annu al business meeting, proposing division of the incorporated Academy into two separate and autonomous successor cor porations, the American Academy of Ophthalmology and the American Acade my of Otolaryngology. The Academy Di vision of Ophthalmology will meet in Kansas City, Missouri, Oct. 22-26, 1978. New positions of Executive VicePresident were created for each division. Bruce E. Spivey was elected for Ophthal mology and C M . Kos for Otolaryngolo gy. Eugene Delacki was named President and Frederick C. Biodi, President-elect. Tullos O. Coston of Oklahoma City was named Second Vice-President. Robert D. Reinecke succeeded Dr. Biodi as Secre tary for Ophthalmology (deadline for pa pers and scientific exhibits is March 15, 1978; address inquiries and abstracts to the American Academy of Ophthalmolo gy, 15 Second St., S.W., Rochester, MN 55901). David Shoch continues as Secre tary for Instruction in Ophthalmology. Byron Demorest was named to a two-year term as member-at-large for the Council. One heard so many papers that it is difficult to select the highlights. Topical instillation of 10% phenylephrine is dan gerous in elderly patients particularly after sympathetic blocade. Panelists have seen a surprisingly large number of pa tients with endophthalmitis after intraoc
DECEMBER, 1977
ular surgery. Aspiration of both vitreous and aqueous humor followed by Gram stain and fastidious culture was empha sized. A double-masked crossover study of calcium dobesilate indicated no bene ficial effect on nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy. No surgery is without risk and unexpected complications are being seen after vitreous surgery, phacoemulsification, and intraocular lens implants. There were exciting studies in amblyopia dealing with the active suppression that occurs after failure of foveal stimulation. Careful lens extraction by a good surgeon gives exceptionally good results. Current manpower studies indicate that there is no excess of ophthalmologists. The Dia betic Retinopathy Study continues to indicate good results with photocoagulation, but these results in complicated dia betic retinopathy are poorer. This meeting marks the beginning of a new Academy of Ophthalmology that has an initial membership of 7,881. The con vention dates for subsequent years were published in the News Items of T H E J O U R NAL (August, 1977). It is evident that the group will not return to the Palmer House or to Chicago for some time. Indeed, the Palmer House could not accommodate the ophthalmic audience at the last meet ing there in 1969. McCormick Place, the new Chicago convention center, has its main arena booked through 1988 and its basement has a nine-foot ceiling that is inadequate for the technical exhibitors. Thus, the Academy Division of Ophthal mology goes to Kansas City in 1978, and in subsequent years, on to San Francisco, New Orleans, and Atlantic City. All of these cities have new convention facili ties with new hotels that seem likely to be able to house the Academy Division. The atmosphere at this 1977 meeting, the last with our otolaryngology confrees, was a mixture of enthusiasm and expecta tion for the new groups combined with nostalgic pride for 82 years of a conspicu-
VOL. 84, NO. 6
BOOK REVIEWS
ously successful society. We now look forward to an exciting, slimmer, and even more effective Academy, providing new and better services to its fellows. F R A N K W.
NEWELL
T H E COPYRIGHT LAW REVISION O F 1976 AND T H E AMERICAN JOURNAL O F OPHTHALMOLOGY The 1976 revision of the copyright law changes the previous relationship be tween the authors and the publishers of T H E A M E R I C A N JOURNAL O F O P H T H A L M O L O G Y . Under the 1909 law, transfer of
manuscripts to the publisher conveyed with it all rights except those explicitly retained or transferred elsewhere. Effec tive January 1, 1978, the publisher has only the right to reproduce and distribute the manuscript in a collective work (such as a complete issue of T H E J O U R N A L ) , any revision of the collective work, or a later issue in the same series. All rights to subsidiary publication of any single arti cle remain with the author or authors of that article unless transferred in writing. The right to reproduce the individual article, the right to prepare derivative works, and the right to distribute copies reside with each author. These may only be transferred in writing. " The two basic exceptions to the rule are as follows: 1. Works made for hire (the copyright resides with the editor for whom the work was prepared). 2. Works of the United States government—work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States govern ment as a part of that person's official duties. Explicit transfer of copyright is the key to policy changes that the publishers of T H E JOURNAL must consider. In order to
879
exercise additional rights, such as grant ing permission to reprint or translate a given article or the publication of a col lection of articles dealing with the same topic that have appeared in T H E J O U R NAL, we must secure the explicit, written, signed assignment of those rights from each author. In common with many periodical pub lishers we have developed and begun to use transfer documents to obtain all those rights we would otherwise lose after 1977. Although the law permits any writ ten and signed conveyance, potential legal problems may be reduced by docu ments that best show the existence of a valid contract, which has a legal object, is a written, mutual agreement voluntarily entered by parties of legal capacity, all of whom have signed it, and which ha§ an exchange of consideration. Since consid eration must be something of value, in its simplest form it may be the promise to publish and distribute in exchange for all rights to a manuscript. In the case of multiple authors we shall request the au thor submitting the typescript to obtain the signatures of co-authors. In requesting the transfer of all rights we have no intention of restricting or infringing on authors' rights to publish their material in a subsequent work of which they may be either author or editor. We do, however, seek to ensure the widest possible distribution of scientific infor mation and to facilitate its dissemination. M A R Y L. B O R Y S E W I C Z
BOOK REVIEWS Reading Aids for the Partially Sighted: A Systematic Classification and Proce dure for Prescribing. By Louise L. Sloan. Baltimore, Williams and Wilkins, 1977. Clothbound, 150 pages, table of contents, index, 13 tables, 38 black and white figures. $11.95