GPLI Alumni Gift Award

About the Award

This award is intended to inspire the 2026-2027 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) attending the 2027 Global Specialty Lens Symposium. The gift is from former cornea and contact lens residents and GPLI friends who wish to “pay it forward.”

The submission window closes November 1, 2026.

Submission Requirements

Applicants must submit both a clinical/scientific abstract and a video testimonial.
Applicants must be attending the Feb 3-6, 2027 GSLS in Las Vegas, NV.

Abstracts:
Abstracts can be the same submissions for AAO, GSLS or ARVO. Completed posters will be weighted higher.

For clinical case report abstracts (resident first author), please use the following standard headings to structure the abstract:

Authors
Affiliations
Title
Background
Case description
Conclusions

For research study abstracts (resident first author), please use the following standard headings to structure the abstract:

Authors
Affiliations
Title
Background
Methods
Results
Discussion

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?

Here are the criteria for judging the video:
• 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, February 6, 2027 at GSLS.