CEVnet – The ISCEV discussion list (CEVnet@mssm.edu)

Some details on list policy

Our intention is to provide an e-mail forum for informal discussions of interesting or perplexing cases, technical issues, economics, and any other matters of interest to the membership. Many of our members are already in the habit of sending an occasional e-mail query to knowledgeable colleagues; the list-sever should greatly facilitate these exchanges, and broaden the international pool of expertise on which we all may call.

The operation of the list is modeled after the very successful “Ped-Ophth” list-server, operated under the auspices of the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus (“AAPOS”) for the last decade. In our experience, activity on CEVnet is mostly quite light, and participants should not fear being overwhelmed by messages. Our list-server, graciously provided through the Mount Sinai School of Medicine at no cost, has been very effective in blocking “spam.”

CEVnet participants may unsubscribe at any time by sending an e-note to Scott Brodie, the list moderator, at sbrodie52@gmail.com requesting that your e-mail address be removed from the list. If you change your mind, just use the same address to request that you be re-instated.

CEVnet is “closed” list – messages are accepted only from the e-mail addresses on the server's master list. If you change your email address, please let me know by personal email to sbrodie52@gmail.com. There is no objection to a user maintaining more than one active e-mail address, but in that case, all messages will be sent to all active addresses.

In order to post a message to the list, simply send it by e-mail to CEVnet@mssm.edu. Your message will promptly be relayed to everyone on the discussion group mailing list.

The list will operate under the following guidelines:

• Participation in CEVnet is restricted to CEVnet members. New members of ISCEV are automatically enrolled. Requests to participate in CEVnet from non-members of ISCEV will be considered and good-faith requests will be honored. Of course, non-members of ISCEV are encouraged to join!
• All posted messages must be signed by their author(s) – no anonymous posts.
• All patient discussions are to be considered purely hypothetical, for illustrative purposes only. Clinical summaries should contain no information which identifies the patient under discussion. No doctor-patient relationship is to be implied by or inferred from participation in on-line discussions.
• Discussions on the list are to be considered confidential. Messages posted on the list should not be reproduced or forwarded elsewhere without the consent of the author of the message.
• Waveforms and images posted on the list may be used by participants for appropriate scientific or educational purposes. Please acknowledge the original author(s) in any lectures or publications.
• Commercial interests: authors must acknowledge any commercial interest in items which they discuss, or in any competing item.
• “Flames” and disparaging personal remarks will not be tolerated, and may result in deletion from the list.

Waveforms and clinical images (revised 2020-07-10)

Participants are encouraged to post waveforms and clinical images (fundus photos, fluorescein or ICG angiograms, OCT or fundus autofluorescence images etc.) as part of their discussions or queries. We hope that, over time, the waveforms and images posted on CEVnet will constitute a library of clinical examples available to members for comparison or reference.

In many cases, clinical images and depictions of waveforms can be collected into a .pdf file, which will greatly compress the image files, and allow them to be included as attachments in postings to CEVnet without violating our server’s upper limit of for messages. [For example, recent versions of Microsoft Word allow files to be saved in *.pdf format.] If this does not suffice, or if a user is unable to create suitable .pdf files, image files can be sent to the CEVnet moderator via personal email to sbrodie52@gmail.com and I will attempt to compress them to allow distribution through CEVnet.

A few final suggestions

• Ask questions. Share your unusual or perplexing cases, or even particularly illustrative examples of straightforward cases. You will be pleasantly surprised at the expertise your colleagues are willing to share.

• If you have something knowlegeable to add to the discussion, please contribute. Many remarks which may seem “obvious” to you may not be obvious to others.
• If you have nothing useful to add, do not clutter up the list with useless chatter. This self-restraint is what has led to the success of the list.
• Keep it informal. Have fun.

Best regards,
Scott (your CEVnet moderator)
Scott E. Brodie, MD, PhD
NYU Langone Health
New York
sbrodie52@gmail.com