Summary of the second OCAVER board members meeting 5/25/2010
During the 2010 ARVO annual meeting, OCAVER board members held second meeting on May 2, 2010. Many issues were discussed during the meeting. Among 16 board members, 9 members (Drs. Dan-Ning Hu, Shikun He, Ji-jing Pang, David Huang, Jingtai Cao, Chuanqing Ding, K. Sheng Lim, Hoai Viet TRAN and Lei Zhou) were present at the meeting. 7 other members (Drs. Chi-Chao Chan, Danian Chen, Kang Zhang, Tien Y. Wong, Hong Liang, Zi-Bing Jin and Hongwei Zhang) were not present at the meeting due to their personal reasons.
The OCAVER Chair, Dr. Shikun He hosted the meeting and reported the OCAVER activities in the past year. Dr. Dan-Ning Hu also introduced OCAVER history in the meeting. This meeting focused on the revision of OCAVER bylaw and the future construction of OCAVER. The following solutions were passed in the meeting:
1. The service term of OCAVER Chair is 4 years and will be elected directly by Honorary Chairs and Board members during the board meeting each time.
2. Dr. Shikun He was elected as the OCAVER new Chair for 4 years from 2010-2014 by 8 votes (all of board members of the attendee) in the board meeting. He was absent at the time of voting.
3. The current 2 Honorary Chairs (Drs. Dan-Ning Hu and Chi-Chao Chan), 13 board members (Ji-jing Pang, David Huang, Jingtai Cao, Danian Chen, Chuanqing Ding, Zip-Bing Jin, K. Sheng Lim, Hong Liang, Hoai Viet TRAN, Lei Zhou, Tien Y. Wong, Hongwei Zhang and Kang Zhang) will also serve for 4 more years (2010-2014) if they are still working in the field of vision and eye research and like to serve for OCAVER. The current board members should inform OCAVER Secretary by the end of November 2010 if they are still working in the field of vision and eye research and their willing to serve as OCAVER board member.
Dr. Ji-jing Pang will serve as the OCAER secretary for 4 more years (2010-2014).
4. To establish an Award Selection Committee from the Board members to determine the awardees of the outstanding achievement , young investigator and sponsorship awardees; The Award Selection Committee will serve 4 years each term and include 7 members: one Honorary Chair, current Chair, Secretary, one representative from US, Canada, Europe and Asia.
5. The newly elected Award Selection Committee members are Drs. Dan-Ning Hu (Honorary Chair), Shikun He (Chair), Ji-jing Pang (Secretary), David Huang (US), Danian Chen (Canada), K. Sheng Lim (Europe) and Tien Y. Wong (Asia). The service term will be 2010-2014.
6. All of OCAVER members are eligible to nominate the awardees candidates with justifications through the Board members before December 1 every year. The Award Selection Committee members will vote for the awardees if there are more than one candidate for each award by December 31. Each Award Selection Committee member can only vote for one candidate in each award. The 3 awardees will be honored in the next year's US-China network meeting during ARVO.
7. To establish OCAVER Membership Promotion Committee and OCAVER Fund Raise Committee, the committee will serve for 4 years each term. The Director of the Committee will select the committee members.
8. Dr.Jingtai Cao was elected as the Director of OCAVER Membership Promotion Committee from 2010-2014. The OCAVER Membership Promotion Committee members are Drs. Hong Liang and Danian Chen.
9. Dr. Ji-jing Pang was elected as the Director of OCAVER Fund Raise Committee from 2010-2014. The OCAVER Fund Raise Committee members are Drs. Davis Huang, Lei Zhou and Chuanqing Ding.
10. The name of the organization will be kept as it was: The Overseas Chinese Association of Vision and Eye Research, however, in theARTICLE 2.0 MEMBERSHIP of bylaw, term of optometry will be included.
11. All of OCAVER board members who were in the meeting agreed that the OCAVER will continue to participate the US-China networking meeting at ARVO and the name of OCAVER will be kept in the list of the organizer of theUS-China networking meeting at ARVO.
