Past Meetings

29th ANNUAL MEETING - 2016

29th Annual Meeting

Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri

March 27-29, 2015

8th ANNUAL MEETING - 2015

28th Annual Meeting

University Club, New York City

March 27-29, 2015

Business Meeting Minutes

March 29, 2015 University Club New York, New York

President Donelson Manley called the meeting to order at 8:05 a.m.

Manley reported on the COHS executive committee meeting that morning. He announced that Chris Leffler is our new treasurer, a position mandated by our status as a nonprofit organization. The treasury is in good shape.

The nominating committee recommended Pamela Sieving for president; the report was seconded, and approved unanimously.

Wendy Gasch’s term on the executive committee was up at the end of 2014; she is replaced on the committee by Chris Leffler.

Report on membership: Robert Drews has requested that he no longer be a member, as has Shawn Murphy. Andrew Ferry has not responded to messages, nor has Jay Enoch. There were no new candidates for membership.

Manley displayed new membership cards, which Ira Eliasoph had designed and donated.

Manley also reported on the Web site; Eliasoph has been serving as an informal editor for the content. Manley thanked the membership for their ideas and constructive criticism on the Website. Harry Marks suggested a limit on the number of words in abstracts, a firm deadline for the final form and corrections after submission, to ease the work of maintaining the abstract section of the Web site.

George Bohigian offered thanks to Celeste and Don Manley for their leadership and hard worked; he presented a plaque to them, and a book to Wendy Gasch in recognition of her service on the executive committee.

Charles Letocha brought up the topic of a journal for the history of ophthalmology. Jean-Paul Wayenborgh has already begun a new journal, with Andrzej Grzybowski as editor: Historia Ophthalmologica Internationalis. Several other COHS members serve on the editorial board.

The 2016 meeting will be convened by Robert Feibel, and held in St. Louis, April 15-17, 2016. Feibel presented a slide show introducing the meeting. Mark Mannis will be the 2016 Snyder lecturer. The 2017 meeting will be convened by John Gittinger in Boston; dates are yet to be set. Curtis Margo is considering the opportunity to convene the 2018 meeting in Tampa or New Orleans.

Guest Andreas Mettenleiter of Würzburg thanked the members for the invitation to our 2015 meeting, noted the similarities of interests with the Hirschberg Gesellschaft in Germany, and raised the possibility of a joint meeting.

A plaque and expression of thanks was made to Danny Jokl, convenor of the 2015 meeting.

Jenny Benjamin announced changes in the Cogan Society archives at the American Academy of Ophthalmology’s Museum of Vision.

The meeting was adjourned at 8:30 a.m.

Pamela C. Sieving

March 25, 2019

Past Meetings

1988 Bethesda Maryland

1989 Bethesda, Maryland

1990 Bethesda, Maryland

1991 Bethesda, Maryland

1992 Bethesda, Maryland

1993 Bethesda, Maryland

1994 Bethesda, Maryland

1995 Bethesda, Maryland

1996 Bethesda, Maryland

1997 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1998 Boston, Massachusetts

1999 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

2000 Charlottesville, Virginia

2001 Palo Alto, California

2002 Harriman, New York

2003 St. Louis, Missouri

2004 Toledo, Ohio

2005 Durham, North Carolina

2006 Hershey, Pennsylvania

2007 San Francisco, California

2008 Charlestown, South Carolina

2009 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

2010 Chicago, Illinois

2011 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

2012 Bethesda, Maryland

2013 Kansas City, Missouri

2014 Pacific Grove, California

2015 New York, New York

2016 St. Louis, Missouri

2017 Boston, Massachusetts

2018 Tampa, Florida

2019 Washington, DC

2020 no meeting

2021 virtual meeting only

2022 Chicago, Illinois

2023 Sacramento, California

32nd Annual Meeting

March 15-17, 2019

Georgetown University. Washington DC

HIGHLIGHTS

David Harper, MD, addressed the sociology of refractive errors at the keynote Snyder Lecture

At the Saturday evening dinner, Patrick Freeny, MD, provided insight, including photos published in National Geographic magazine, into the Great Bear Rainforest, a little-known natural treasure. The dinner took place at the Cosmos Club, which was founded in 1878 and occupies the former home of geologist and explorer John Wesley Powell.

Local tours on Friday, March 15:

Washington National Cathedral, 3101 Wisconsin Avenue, NW

Of note, the Cathedral’s 112 gargoyles manifest a high prevalence of eye and ocular adnexal abnormalities.

Folger Shakespeare Library, 201 East Capitol Street, NE

A special tour of the reading room and the vault of the world’s largest collection for the study of Shakespeare and his time, as well as the opportunity to view the public exhibit that week: First Chefs: Fame and Foodways from Britain to the Americas.

Library of Congress, 101 Independence Avenue, SE

A unique tour, including music and performing arts aspects of the Library, which are not usually covered on tours

Cogan Ophthalmic History Society

A scholarly forum for discussion on the history of ophthalmology.

The Cogan Ophthalmic History Society provides a scholarly forum for presentation and discussion of research on the history of ophthalmology and its associated fields. Organized in memory of David Glendenning Cogan, a pioneer in the study of history of ophthalmology, the Society sponsors a yearly meeting.