[visionlist] FW: OVS Call for Papers - Dry Eye feature issue

[Optometry & Vision Science]

CALL FOR PAPERS

Optometry and Vision Science is soliciting papers for a Feature Issue:

"Dry Eye: Clinical and Research Challenges"

Deadline for submission September 15, 2007.

A feature issue provides the opportunity for your work to be published
alongside similar subject matter. Past feature issues of OVS have included a
number of important and highly cited papers.

It is intended for the feature issue to reflect the considerable research
activity and practitioner interest in the strategies for managing, preventing
and generally exploring novel approaches for quantifying and treating the
causes of dry eye.

In particular there is growing urgency in addressing the special burden of
women, the aging population, computer users and those wearing contact lenses.
As noted in the National Eye Institutes strategic planning, recent research
suggests that dry eye syndromes may involve inflammatory processes and
translational research has led to the development of therapeutic strategies
that target ocular inflammatory responses and increase tear production as a
means of managing dry eye diseases. The importance of hormonal influences in
maintaining lacrimal and meibomian gland function is also emerging, as well
as new technologies for understanding the tear film/ ocular surface
interactions.

In particular, we are interested in manuscripts on the following topics:

* Epidemiology of dry eye
* Evaluating and quantifying dry eye
* Dry eye and contact lens wear
* Dry eye and computer use
* Challenging environments for dry eyes
* The dry eye burden for women
* Dry eye in the aging population
* New strategies and promise for dry eye diagnosis and management 
* Mechanisms and causes of dry eye
* The biochemistry of dry eye and the tear film 
* Technology in dry eye disease
* Dry eye prevention strategies and discoveries

Manuscripts will be peer reviewed and must be submitted online at
http://ovs.edmgr.com. They should be prepared according to the instructions
to authors available through the web site homepage. Indicate in the "author's
comments" that your paper is being submitted for this feature issue.

Guest Editors:
Kelly Nichols, OD, MPH, PhD
Debra Schaumberg, OD, ScD, MPH
Gary Foulks, MD
Janine Smith, MD

Kelly Nichols will be coordinating review of the submitted articles in
conjunction with with the Editor-in-Chief and Managing Editor.

Please contact the Editorial Office (ovs at osu.edu) if you have any questions.

Tony Adams
Editor-in-Chief 
Optometry and Vision Science

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