TFOS welcomes the new and/or continuing members of the TFOS Board of Directors. They are Dimitri Azar (USA), Wei Chen (China, new), Murat Dogru (Japan, Secretary), José Álvaro Pereira Gomes (Brazil, new), Geetha Iyer (India), Paul Karpecki (USA, new), Zuguo Liu (China, Treasurer), Maria Markoulli (Australia, new), Victor Perez (USA, new) and David A Sullivan (USA, Chair). TFOS greatly appreciates their willingness to embrace and lead the TFOS mission, which is to advance the research, literacy and educational aspects of the tear film and ocular surface throughout the world. 

TFOS also thanks past Board members, Jennifer Craig, Lyndon Jones and James Wolffsohn, for their years of exceptional service.

TFOS has organized a special meeting of the Latin American TFOS Ambassadors. This meeting, which will occur in Panama City this May, has two goals: first, to address the unmet needs for the management (e.g. diagnosis & treatment) of ocular surface diseases in their country/region, as well as what the Ambassadors perceive as short and long term scientific/clinical solutions; and second, to create a report for publication in a peer-reviewed journal.

Participants will include TFOS Ambassadors from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela and, tentatively, the Caribbean.  

This Latin American TFOS Ambassadors meeting will be the second such event. The first was the European TFOS Ambassadors’ meeting in 2019 in Rome, Italy. That report was published in The Ocular Surface:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1542012420300847?via%3Dihub

TFOS thanks Bausch+Lomb and Laboratorios Sophia, both Gold Sponsors, for their generous support of this meeting.

Issue 87 of the Centre for Ocular Research & Education (CORE) 'Contact Lens Update' focused on the Tear Film & Ocular Surface Society Dry Eye WorkShop III (TFOS DEWS III) report. Summaries were created to help eye care professionals understand the report’s key conclusions and recommended clinical approaches, with a particular attention to what has evolved since TFOS DEWS II was published in 2017. 


TFOS thanks CORE and Alcon, the TFOS DEWS III Title Sponsor, for creating these summaries. The pdf summaries can be downloaded from the TFOS website.