The ninth Troutman-Véronneau Prize of US $10,000.00, funded by a permanent endowment from the Microsurgical Research Foundation to the Pan American Ophthalmological Foundation for the most original, previously unpublished paper on the subject of Cornea and/or Corneal Refractive Surgery will be awarded at the opening session of the Joing Meeting of the XXVIII Pan-American Congress of Ophthalmology and the 113th Meeting of the American Academy of Ophthalmology in San Francisco, California on October 24, 2009. The selected paper will be a featured part of the XXVIII Pan-American Congress.

The awardee (first author) must be:

• 45 years of age or younger at the time of submission of his/her paper
• Be or become a PAAO Active Member (Miembro Titular)
• Be certified by the American Board of Ophthalmology or by the Ophthalmology Board of his/her respective country, or be Board eligible. If no Board exists, he/she must be a member in good standing with the national ophthalmological society affiliated with the PAAO.

Deadline for submission: To be Announced

Troutman-Veronneau Prize winning papers and authors**:

2007 – Vanessa Macedo Batista Fiorelli, MD (Brazil) - "Intermittent Exotropia: Comparative Surgical Results of Lateral Recti-Recession and Monocular Recess-Resect"
2005 – Rocio Carolina Gutiérrez Colina, MD (Venezuela) - "Cultivo de Células Epiteliales Limbales en Membrana Amniótica Humana en el Tratamiento de las Quemaduras Corneales por Alcali "
2003 – Maria Estela Arroyo Yllanes, MD (Mexico) - "Tratamiento de la Desvación Vertical Disociada (DVD) espontánea con la penalización farmacológica del ojo fijador "
2001 – José A.P. Gomez, MD (Brazil) - "Efeito do hialuronato de sódio (HS) na migração e proliferação das células do épitelio de córnea humana "
1999 – Jonathan C. Horton, MD (USA) - "Metabolic Mapping Suppression Scotomas in Striate Cortex of Macaques with Experimental Strabismus "
1997 – Peter J. McDonnell, MD (USA) - "Effects of Gene Transfer into Keratocytes on Corneal Wound Healing after Excimer Laser Keratectomy "
1995 – William Lavin, MD (USA) - "Evaluation of the Microsurgical Technique of Anterior Ciliary Artery Preservation during Strabismus Surgery "
1993 – John D. Gottsch, MD (USA) - "Mooren’s Ulcer After Penetrating Keratoplasty: Evidence of a New Graft Rejection Process "

** Subject matter for submissions for the Troutman-Véronneau Prize alternate between Strabismus, Amblyopia, and/or related genetics, or strabismus microsurgery and Cornea and/or Corneal Refractive Surgery.

The 2011 prize topic will be expanded to "Pediatric Ophthalmology,  emphasizing Strabismus, and Strabismus microsurgery ".