GPLI Alumni Gift Award
Current Residents | Submit Your ApplicationAbout the Award
This award is intended to inspire the 2025-2026 GPLI residency class to reflect on their residency using gas permeable lenses and what the GPLI organization and symposium means to them. A grant of $1000 will be awarded to the top two GPLI resident applicants (see details below). The gift is from former cornea and contact lens residents and GPLI friends who wish to “pay it forward.”
The submission window closes December 1, 2025.
Submission Requirements
Video Testimonial
Applicants must submit a video testimonial. By submitting your video, you consent to allow the GPLI to publish this video on their website, social media, and other public spaces or presentations. The video should be no more than 1.5-2 minutes long and must describe your current residency experience and what you gained from the GPLI residency symposium that is helping you in your patient care, teaching and/or research. How do you see yourself giving back to the profession and the GPLI?
- Current residency experience
- GPLI symposium experience
- One thing you took away from GPLI that’s helping you in patient care, teaching, or research
- How you see yourself giving back
- Video aesthetic
- Video creativity
The award will be presented and the recipients recognized at the GPLI Rising Stars ceremony on Saturday afternoon, January 10, 2026 at GSLS.