ASCRS Film Festival Judge for the 2009 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, San Francisco, California, April, 2009.
Member of the ASCRS Clinical Carryout team for the 2009 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, San Francisco, California, April, 2009.
Selected to give the presentation: "Options for Managing an IOL Power Surprise"
as part of the American Academy of Ophthalmology's "Spotlight Series." Atlanta,
Georgia, November 10, 2008.
Recipient of the 2008 Distinguished Service Gold Medal in Ophthalmology of the International Academy for Advances in Ophthalmology. Presented in Mumbai, India, August 22, 2008.
Selected by Alcon Laboratories to perform live surgery with the implantation
of a ReStor intraocular lens at the XLIV Annual Meeting of Romanian Ophthalmologists,
Roznovanu Palace, Iasi, Romania, May 30, 2008.
Featured in an interview for the American Society of Cataract and Refractive
Surgery On-line Podcast "As Seen From Here", Program #148. Topic: "Expected
effects of surgically induced astigmatism on the AcrySof toric intraocular
lens." May, 2008.
Appointed an ASCRS Film Festival Judge for the 2008 Annual Meeting of the
American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, Chicago, Illinois, April,
2008.
Selected by Alcon Laboratories to perform live surgery at the 2008 Annual
Meeting of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery in Chicago.
Illinois, April 5, 2008.
Selected to give the presentation: "Why Use Aspherics" as part of
the American Academy of Ophthalmology's "Spotlight Series." New
Orleans, Louisiana, November 12, 2007.
Made Honorary Member in the Sociedad Nacional de Oftalmología y Ortóptica,
Guayaquil, Ecuador, August 18, 2007.
Selected as the Cataract Surgery Subspecialty Editor for the American Academy of Ophthalmology's educational web site, "The Ophthalmic News & Education Network (O.N.E.)", 2007.
With Douglas Koch, MD and Li Wang, MD, PhD, developed the software for the first on-line post-keratorefractive IOL power calculator for the membership of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, May, 2007.
Recipient of the American Academy of Ophthalmology's 2007 Achievement Award.
Appointed the Co-Chairman of the Cataract Surgery Section of the 2007 Asia
ARVO meeting, Singapore, March 2, 2007.
Selected to give the Kenneth C. Swan Lectureship at the Casey Eye Institute
of the Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon, April 14, 2006.
Selected to give the 2006 Bernard C. Gettes Lecture at the 58th Annual Alumni
Conference of the Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 11,
2006.
Voted one of the "Top 50 Opinion Leaders in Cataract and Refractive Surgery"
by the readership of Cataract and Refractive Surgery Today in 2005 and
again in 2006.
Selected to give the Barry and Jack Kayes Lectureship in Ophthalmology & Visual
Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, 2005.
Elected to the Board of Directors of the American Board of Eye Surgery, 2005.
Voted one of the "Top 50 Opinion Leaders in Cataract and Refractive Surgery" by
the readership of Cataract and Refractive Surgery Today, May, 2005.
Voted a "Top Doc" in the specialty of ophthalmology by medical peers
in Phoenix Magazine; 1995, 1996, 1998, 2002 and 2004.
Selected as an Editor/Committee Member for Clinical Optics, Volume 3 of the
Resident Home Study Course of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, 2004.
Elected to membership in the International Intra-Ocular Implant Club (IIIC),
2004.
Selected as a member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology's Cataract
and Anterior Segment Self Assessment Writing Team, 2004.
Selected as Chairman of the Continuing Medical Education Advisory Committee
of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, 2004.
Asked to give one of three "Main Lectures" to the Opening Scientific
Session of the 17th annual Kongress der Deutschen Ophthalmochirurgen, Nurnberg,
Germany, June 25, 2004.
Chosen to be the Co-Chairman of the Singapore National Eye Center Advanced
Phacoemulsification Surgery Course, Singapore, March 29, 2004.
Chosen to be the Refractive Surgery Section Co-Chairman for the Annual Meeting
of the American College of Eye Surgeons, Miami, Florida, March 2, 2004.
Most frequently downloaded
image by physician members of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive
Surgery Image Library Web site, photograph of a single piece acrylic IOL, 2004.
Featured iinterview in Cataract
and Refractive Surgery Today, September, 2003.
Keynote speaker to the Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the Canadian Masters
Meeting, Tucson, Arizona, March 16, 2003.
Chosen to be the Cataract Surgery Section Co-Chairman for the Annual Meeting
of the American College of Eye Surgeons, Miami, Florida, February 4, 2003.
Chosen to give the Special Cataract Lecture at the Annual Meeting of the
Philippine Ophthalmology Society, Manila, Philippines, November 30, 2002.
Chosen to give the General Session Opening Lecture at the Annual Meeting
of the Kentucky Medical Association on the topic of the history of ophthalmic
anesthesia, Louisville, Kentucky, September 24, 2002.
Chosen to give the John Balian, M.D. Memorial Lecture at the Annual Meeting
of the Michigan Keratorefractive Society on the topic of Refractive Cataract
Surgery, Birmingham, Michigan, June 29, 2002.
Keynote speaker at the Annual Meeting of the Michigan Keratorefractive
Society on the topic of Wavefront Sensing, Birmingham, Michigan, June 29,
2002.
Keynote speaker at the fifteenth Annual Meeting of the Society for
Excellence in Eyecare on the topic of partial coherence interferometry, Beach
Shore, Aruba, January 28, 2002.
"Best Presenter Award" for "Understanding Wavefront Sensing" at
the fifteenth Annual Meeting of the Society for Excellence in Eyecare, Beach
Shore, Aruba, January 28, 2002.
Chosen to give the Charles H. May, MD Memorial Lecture for the New York
Academy of Medicine on the topic of Refractive Cataract Surgery. New York,
New York, December 10, 2001.
Winner of "Best Paper of Session" for "Ophthalmic Anesthesia - Historical
Perspectives." at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Cataract
and Refractive Surgery, Boston, Massachusetts, May 22, 2000.
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