Honors and Awards
1977 University of Illinois College of Medicine Research Award: "Direct Microdetermination of Manganese in Normal Serum and Cerebrospinal Fluid by Flameless Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry"
1981 Heed Ophthalmic Foundation Scholarship
1988 Guest of Honor Lecture, "Intravitreal Drug Therapy: Clinical Considerations and Current Research," at the request of the Japanese Ophthalmological Society for their 92nd Congress, Kyoto, Japan
1990 Honor Award, American Academy of Ophthalmology
1991 Invited Named Lecture, "Endophthalmitis: Clinical Management and Current Research" for the 1991 Illinois Society for the Prevention of Blindness Lectureship, presented at the 1991 Annual Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society
1993 Invited Named Lectureship, the Emory Retina Lecturer, "Endophthalmitis: New Perspectives on Prophylaxis and Management", "Retinal Manifestations of AIDS", and "Diagnosis and Management of Diabetic Traction Retinal Detachment" Emory University, Atlanta GA
1995 Teacher of the Year Award, given by the Residents of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
1995 Guest of Honor Lectures "Experience With An Erbium-YAG Laser For Vitreoretinal Surgery" and "Management of Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy" at the request of the Korean Ophthalmological Society for their annual meeting, Seoul, Korea
1996 Invited Named Lecture, the Everett R. Veirs Lecture "Diagnosis and Management of Endophthalmitis" given at the Scott & White Clinic, Texas A & M University, Temple TX
1997 Invited Named Lecture, the Taylor R. Smith Lecture "Endophthalmitis 1997" given at 25th annual meeting of the Aspen Retinal Detachment Society, Snowmass, CO
2000 Teacher of the Year Award, given by the Residents of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
2002 Senior Achievement Award, American Academy of Ophthalmology
2002 Guest of Honor Lecture Seeking New Possibilities in Vitreoretinal Surgery" for the 56th Congress of Clinical Ophthalmology in Japan, Morioka, Japan
2003 Honor Award, the American Society of Retinal Specialists
2003 Invited Named Lecture, the Delbert P. Nachazel, Jr. Lecture Vitreoretinal Surgery In Association With Permanent Keratoprosthesis" given at New Frontiers In The Management Of Retinal Diseases, Detroit, MI
2006 Invited Named Lecture, the Irving H. Leopold Lecture Neovascular AMD: The Current Treatment Landscape" given at the 58th Alumni Conference of the Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia PA
2006 Invited Named Lecture, the Nikolaos Stangos Lecture Changing Concepts in the Treatment of Retinal Detachment" given at the 4th Retina-Macula-Vitreous Hippocratic Symposium, Thessaloniki Greece
2006 Invited Named lecture, the Robert Haimovici Lecture Advances in the Diagnosis and Management of Age-related Macular Degeneration, given at Boston University Medical Center, Boston MA
2007 Invited Named Lecture, the McLean Lecture New Clinical and Experimental Approaches in Retinal Vein Occlusions" Weill Cornell Medical College, New York NY
2007 Invited Named Lecture, the Robert Haimovici Lecture Diabetic Retinopathy: Advances in Pathophysiology, Drug Treatment, and Vitreoretinal Surgery" Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, Miami FL
2007 Invited Keynote Lecture, Diabetic Retinopathy: Advances in Pathophysiology, Medical and Laser Treatment, and Vitreoretinal Surgery" and Evolutionary and Revolutionary Trends in Vitreoretinal Surgery" British and Eire Vitreoretinal Society, St. Andrews Scotland, UK
