appealing to both readers and authors. This was implemented from the very first volume (Oct-Dec 2012) under our guidance and has had a considerable and positive impact upon our subscribers. We have invited several foreign colleagues to join the international reviewer´s group, and we have pleasantly received letters of acceptance from Fernando Arévalo MD, venezuelan ophthalmologist, Retina and Vitreous subspecialist, chief of Retina and Vitreous Service of King Khaled Hospital at Riyadh (Saudi Arabia) and Professor of Ophthalmology at John Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD, USA). We also received a letter of acceptance from Félix Perez MD, ophthalmologist, subspecialist in Cornea and Anterior Segment, Chief of Refractive Surgery Department at Venezuelan Association for the Advance of Ophthalmology in Caracas (Venezuela); and last but not least, from Eduardo Alfonso MD, Ophthalmologist, sub-specialist in Cornea and External Diseases, Chairman of Bascom Palmer Eye institute, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. Dr Alfonso, besides immediately and generously accepting our invitation, requested our Journal to be regularly mailed to Bascom Palmer Eye Institute Norton Library, in order to be available for staff and residents alike, which we immediately did. I think this is an excellent opportunity for the Colombian ophthalmology with the purpose of gaining greater international preponderance which makes it even more attractive for authors to submit their papers. We also have invited to Alexander Martinez Blanco MD, MSc, to the Editorial Committee. Dr Martinez is an ophthalmologist with a master in clinical epidemiology from
Universidad del Valle and Professor of Ophthalmology at same university. From the beginning, and aiming to comply with the re-indexing requisites by Colciencias (C Category, valid thru December 2012) we worked speedily in order to publish 2012´s Volume IV and began thereafter with 2013´s respective volumes; recently we received the confirmation letter for such indexation valid thru June 2014 (Attached at the end of this issue). Regarding the journal´s physical appearance, beginning 2013 we decided to modify its external look by varying the front page appearance including new diagramming, different color and logo sizing changes. To make more evident the very essence of our specialty, we have created a new section at the end of each issue named “Images in Ophthalmology”, trying to share interesting pictures and allowing us to do a clinical exercise and arouse our academic curiosity. Also, we are working on setting up the journal on iPad format to make it more appealing and easy to carry and read; this we hope to achieve soon. Closing up, I´d like to thank the authors, specialists, fellows and residents, who have shared their work with the journal to keep it circulating regularly. We will keep working with the sole purpose of making our journal better and more appealing to all in each published issue.
Sincerely yours, Pedro Iván Navarro Naranjo, MD Editor-in-Chief Scientific Journal Colombian Society of Ophthalmology
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