SAN FRANCISCO—Academy 2010 San Francisco, the 88th annual meeting of the American Academy of Optometry (Academy) (http://www.aaopt.org/), held here Nov. 17-20, drew over 5,800 attendees. According to the organization, the meeting was their biggest so far, with nearly 4,000 optometrists and vision scientists present.

“There were 250 booths representing 150 companies that displayed their latest products and technology on the Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of the meeting,” Helen Viksnins, MEd, FAAO, director of education and member relations, told VMail. She added, “The consensus from attendees, Academy volunteers and staff is that this was not only the largest meeting, but also one of the best.”

Members also voted on the Academy board of directors, including four new at-large members. “Three were incumbents,” Viksnins said.

This year’s Academy board of directors are as follows:
• President—Karla Zadnik, OD, PhD, FAAO
• President-elect—Bernard J. Dolan, OD, MS, FAAO
• Secretary/Treasurer—Brett G. Bence, OD, FAAO
• Immediate Past-President—Mark Eger, OD, FAAO
• Members-at-large—Barbara Caffery, OD, PhD, FAAO; Michael G. Harris, OD, JD, MS, FAAO (new); Timothy T. McMahon, OD, FAAO; Joseph P. Shovlin, OD, FAAO

Award winners were as follows: 

• Charles F. Prentice Medal Award—Earl L. Smith, III, OD, PhD, FAAO
• Glenn A. Fry Lecture Award (American Optometric Foundation) —Nathan Efron, BScOptom, PhD, DSc, FAAO
• Irvin M. and Beatrice Borish Award—Alex R. Bowers, PhD, FAAO, MCOptom
• American Academy of Optometry-Essilor Award for Outstanding Contributions to International Optometry—Kovin S. Naidoo, OD, MPH, PhD, FAAO
• William Feinbloom Award—Joan A. Stelmack, OD, MPH, FAAO
• Carel C. Koch Award—Thomas F. Freddo, OD, PhD, FAAO
• Garland W. Clay Award—Birgit Lackner, MD, Gerald Schmidinger, MD, Stefan Pieh, MD, Martin A. Funovics, MD, Christian Skorpik, MD for "Repeatability and Reproducibility of Central Corneal Thickness Measurement with Pentacam, Orbscan, and Ultrasound,” which ran in Optometry and Vision Science Volume: 82 Issue: 10
• Michael G. Harris Family Award for Excellence in Optometric Education (AOF) —Richard Meetz, OD, MS, FAAO
• Schapero Lecture Award—Joseph T. Barr, OD, MS, FAAO
• Founders’ Award—Nick Stoyan, NCLC