The Academy congratulates the following international members and thanks them for their contributions made to the Academy, its scientific and educational programs and to ophthalmology.
International Ophthalmologist Education Award
Outstanding Humanitarian Service Award
Senior Achievement Award
Achievement Award
International Ophthalmologist Education Award
The International Ophthalmologist Education Award recognizes international Academy members who meet specific criteria in pursing lifelong education in ophthalmology.
2009
Mehdi Modarres, MD (Iran)
Sergio E. Echeverria, MD (Chile)
Marco Antonio C. Olytho Jr., MD (Brazil)
Matthias Christian Grieshaber, MD (Switzerland)
Francesco P. Bernardini, MD (Italy)
Miloslav B. Bozdech, MD (Canada)
Giovanni Cardini, MD (Italy)
Manuel Moriche Carretero, MD (Spain)
Konstadinos Chatzinikolas, MD (Greece)
Carlo De Conciliis, MD (Italy)
Hazem A. El-Sabagh, MBBS (Saudi Arabia)
Antonio Ferreras, MD (Spain)
Vasiliki Flindri, MD (Greece)
Arnold I. Kravetz, MD (Canada)
Laurentino Biccas Neto, MD (Brazil)
Juan Salinas, MD (United Kingdom)
Tarun Sharma, MBBS (India)
Sathish Srinivasan, MBBS, FRCSEd, FRCOphth (Scotland)
Robert F. Stevenson, MD (Canada)
Palaniswamy Sunderraj, MD (England)
Prasan M. Rao, MBBS, MS (United Arab Emirates)
Mario Robert Ventresca, MD, FRCSC (Canada)
Gopal Lal Verma, MD (India)
Ernesto S. Yapur, MD (Argentina)
2008
Carlos A. Diaz, MD (Argentina)
Emmanuel G.M.J. De Meuter, MD (Belgium)
Jean-Luc Melard, MD (Belgium)
Jean-Marie L. Henry, MD (Belgium)
Jerome R. Verelst MD (Belgium)
Cassius S. Paparelli, MD (Brazil)
Zelia M. Correa, MD (Brazil)
Fabio G. Zanetti, MD (Canada)
Mounir Bashour, MD (Canada)
Mario Robert Ventresca, MD (Canada)
Eusebio Garcia Riccomini, MD (Chile)
Jorge E. Uribe, MD (Colombia)
Javier Cordoba Umana, MD (Costa Rica)
Joaquin Martinez, MD (Costa Rica)
Lihteh Wu, MD (Costa Rica)
Tamara Velazquez Montoya, MD (Costa Rica)
Arnaldo Espaillat, MD (Dominican Republic)
Javier Aguirre Moreno, MD (Ecuador)
Jose A. Pitarque, MD (Ecuador)
Robin Arreaga Rios, MD (Ecuador)
Ehab N. El Rayes, MD (Egypt)
Rodrigo A. Quesada Larez, MD (El Salvador)
Somdutt Prasad, MBBS (England)
Ali Erginay, MD (France)
Ramin Tadayoni, MD (France)
Nicola Bothe, MD (Germany)
Stefan Dithmar, MD (Germany)
Ioannis Datseris, MD (Greece)
Ioannis Mavrikakis, MD (Greece)
Sofia N. Androudi, MD, PhD (Greece)
Carlos Raul A. Chinchilla Segura, MD (Guatemala)
Dexter Yu-lung Leung, MBChB (Hong Kong)
Timothy Y. Lai, MBBS (Hong Kong)
Alay S. Banker, MD (India)
Amit Tarafdar, MD (India)
Namrata Sharma, MBBS, MD (India)
Paritosh A. Kamdar, MS, DNB (India)
Rekha R. Khandelwal, MBBS, FRCS (India)
Samar K. Basak, MD, DNB, MBBS (India)
Antonio Scoyni, MD (Italy)
Francesco Carones, MD (Italy)
Giorgio Toderini, MD (Italy)
Girolamo Petrachi, MD (Italy)
Tsukasa Hanemoto MD (Japan)
Adel M. A. Al-Jazzaf, MD (Kuwait)
Guna Laganovska, MD (Latvia)
Ibrahim M. Ali, MD (Lebanon)
David Choy, MD (Mexico)
Fausto M. Lechuga-Ortiz, MD (Mexico)
Graciela Garcia-Briones, MD (Mexico)
Miguel Paciuc, MD (Mexico)
Abali I. Chuku, MBBS (Nigeria)
Mohammad Zubair Y. Arain, MBBS (Pakistan)
Cecilia Contreras, MD (Peru)
Francisco Contreras, MD (Peru)
Gerardo H Arana MD (Peru)
Antonio S. Say, MD (Philippines)
Eduardo F. Marques, MD (Portugal)
Alexander A. Bialasiewicz, MD (Qatar)
Yousef I. Al-Megbel, MD (Saudi Arabia)
Emeterio Pina-Hurtado, MD, PhD (Spain)
Enrique Lopez-Sanchez, MD (Spain)
Ignacio Iceta Gonzalez, MD (Spain)
Manuel Moriche Carretero, MD (Spain)
Miguel A Cabrerizo, MD (Spain)
Miguel J. Maldonado, MD, PhD (Spain)
Patricio M Aduriz-Lorenzo, MD (Spain)
David Goldblum, MD (Switzerland)
Arwa M. Azmeh, MD (Syria)
Atilla Bayer, MD (Turkey)
Murat Oncel, MD (Turkey)
Luis F Rivero, MD (Venezuela)
2007
Martin H. Devoto, MD (Argentina)
Patrick Saurel, MD (Canada)
Jeffrey D. Chambers, MD, FRCSC (Canada)
Joao F. Lopes, MD (Chile)
Angela M. Dolmetsch, MD (Colombia)
Vatche D. Der Garabedian, MD (Greece)
Ajit G. Kulkarni, MBBS (India)
Raja Narayanan, MD (India)
Sanjoy Chowdhury, MBBS (India)
Naji E. Waked, MD (Lebanon)
Branislav M. Djurovic, MD, PHD (Serbia)
Romero P. Aroca, MD (Spain)
Birkan Can, MD (Switzerland)
Chieh-Chih Tsai, MD (Taiwan)
J. Fernando Arevalo, MD, FACS (Venezuela)
2006
Maria Carrasco, MD (Argentina)
Prashant G. Bhatia, MBBS (United Arab Emirates)
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Outstanding Humanitarian Service Award
First awarded in 1992, the Outstanding Humanitarian Service Award was established to recognize the contributions of Academy Fellows and Members in selflessly providing medical eye care. Each year, this award is presented to individuals for their participation in charitable activities, indigent care, community service or other humanitarian activity. Learn more about the Outstanding Humanitarian Service Award.
2008
No international recipient
2007
Alessandro Pezzola, MD (Italy)
2006
Ghulamqadir A. Kazi, MD (Pakistan)
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Senior Achievement Award
The Senior Achievement Award program recognizes individuals who participate in Academy activities including the scientific programs at the Annual Meeting and more than 25 other categories of contribution to the Academy. The award program is based on a cumulative point system; one point is awarded for each area of contribution, and an individual can earn a maximum of three points per year. To receive the Senior Achievement Award, individuals must obtain 30 points. Learn more about the Senior Achievement Award.
2008
Jorge L. Alio, MD, PhD (Spain)
Fabrizio I. Camesasca, MD (Italy)
Simon P. Holland, MD (Canada)
Michael C. Knorz, MD (Germany)
Dennis S C Lam, MD (Hong Kong)
Anil K. Mandal, MD (India)
Matteo Piovella, MD (Italy)
2007
J. Fernando Arevalo, MD, FACS (Venezuela)
Georges D. Baikoff, MD (France)
Joseph Colin, MD (France)
Roger A. Hitchings, MD (England)
Thanh Hoang-Xuan, MD (France)
Ioannis G. Pallikaris, MD (Greece)
Hugo Quiroz-Mercado, MD (Mexico)
Carlo E. Traverso, MD (Italy)
2006
David K. Dueker, MD (Saudi Arabia)
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Achievement Award
The Achievement Award program recognizes individuals who participate in Academy activities including the scientific programs at the Annual Meeting and more than 25 other categories of contribution to the Academy. The award program is based on a cumulative point system; one point is awarded for each area of contribution, and an individual can earn a maximum of three points per year. To receive the Achievement Award, individuals must obtain 10 points. Learn more about the Achievement Award Program.
2008
Tushar Agarwal, MD (India)
Tin Aung, PhD FRCS (Singapore)
Mohsen Azarmina, MD (Iran)
Augusto Azuara-Blanco, MD (Scotland)
Graham D. Barrett, MD (Australia)
Keith Barton, MD (England)
Samar K. Basak, MD DNB FRCS (India)
Guy J. Ben Simon, MD (Israel)
Francesco P. Bernardini, MD (Italy)
Imtiaz A. Chaudhry, MD PhD FACS (Saudi Arabia)
Fiona E. Costello, MD (Canada)
Luis H. De La O, MD (Mexico)
Martin H. Devoto, MD (Argentina)
Burkhard Dick, MD (Germany)
Emilio M. Dodds, MD (Argentina)
Claus Eckardt, MD (Germany)
Dorothy Shu-ping Fan, MD (China)
Felix Gil Carrasco, MD (Mexico)
Lingam Gopal, MBBS (India)
Tsukasa Hanemoto ,MD (Japan)
Anders H. Heijl, MD PhD (Sweden)
Subhadra Jalali, MS (India)
Christoph Kranemann ,MD (Canada)
Shunji Kusaka, MD (Japan)
Igal Leibovitch, MD (Israel)
Christopher Kai-shun Leung ,MD MBChB (Hong Kong)
Anat Loewenstein, MD (Israel)
Carsten H. Meyer, MD (Germany)
Milind N. Naik, MD (India)
Marcelo V. Netto, MD (Brazil)
Rishita Nutheti (India)
Ivan L. Ossma-Gomez, MD (Colombia)
Som Prasad, MS FRCS FRCOphth (England)
Tanja M. Rabsilber, MD (Germany)
Jose A. Roca, MD (Peru)
Tarek M. Shaarawy ,MD (Switzerland)
Raul Suarez, MD (Mexico)
Clement C Y Tham, FRCS FCOphthHK (Hong Kong)
Lixin Xie, MD (China)
Chee-Chew Yip, MMed FRCS (Singapore)
2007
Sunita Agarwal, MD (India)
Athiya Agarwal, MD (India)
Mikki Arai, MD (Japan)
Makoto Araie, MD PhD (Japan)
G. William Aylward, MD (United Kingdom)
Irina S Barequet, MD (Israel)
Juan F. Batlle, MD (Dominican Republic)
Susanne Binder, MD (Austria)
Bahram Bodaghi, MD PhD (France)
Rosa Braga-Mele, MD (Canada)
Pasquale Cardona, MD (Italy)
Wallace Chamon, MD (Brazil)
Wai-Man Chan, MD FRCP FRCS ( Hong Kong)
Soon-Phaik Chee, MD (Singapore)
Alan F. Cruess, MD (Canada)
Alaa El-Danasoury, MD (Saudi Arabia)
Jean-Luc Febbraro, MD (France)
Takashi Fujikado, MD (Japan)
Ivan Goldberg, MBBS FRANZCO (Australia)
Jose AP Gomes, MD (Brazil)
John L. Hungerford, FRCS (England)
Igor Kaiserman, MD MSc MHA (Canada)
Vikentia Katsanevaki, MD PhD (Greece)
Hamza N. Khan, MD MPH FRCSC FACS (Canada)
Michael Scott Kook, MD (Korea)
David T. Lin, MD (Canada)
Raman Malhotra, MBChB FRCOphth (England)
Riadh Messaoud, MD (Tunisia)
Ramon Naranjo-Tackman, MD (Mexico)
Virender S. Sangwan, MBBS (India)
Elcio H. Sato, MD (Brazil)
Tarun Sharma, MD FRCSEd (India)
Robert Stegmann, MD (South Africa)
Mario Stirpe, MD (Italy)
Gustavo E. Tamayo, MD (Colombia)
Marie Jose Tassignon, MD PhD FEBO (Belgium)
Hem K. Tewari, MBBS (India)
Prof. Ravi Thomas, MBBS MD (India)
Atsuo Tomidokoro, MD (Japan)
Juan Verdaguer T, MD (Chile)
Luca Vigo, MD (Italy)
Tien Yin Wong, MBBS (Australia)
2006
Charles S. Su, MD (Australia)
Iqbal K. Ahmed, MD (Canada)
Mounir Bashour, MD (Canada)
Balwantray C. Chauhan, PhD (Canada)
David R. Chow, MD (Canada)
Linda M. Christmann, MD (Canada)
Elie G. Khouri, MD (Canada)
Brian C. Leonard, MD (Canada)
E. Rand Simpson, MD (Canada)
John A. Van Westenbrugge, MD (Canada)
David T. Wong, MD (Canada)
Lihteh Wu, MD (Costa Rica)
David F. Garway-Heath, MD, MBBS (England)
Damien Gatinel, MD (France)
Chris P. Lohmann, MD (Germany)
John So-Min Chang Jr., MD (Hong Kong)
Amar Agarwal, MD (India)
Alay S. Banker, MD (India)
Aashish K. Bansal, MBBS, MS (India)
P. Namperumalsamy, MD (India)
Ramanjit Sihota, MD (India)
Geeta K. Vemuganti, MD (India)
Hamid Ahmadieh, MD (Iran)
William J. Power, MD (Ireland)
Giovanni Cennamo, MD (Italy)
Nicola Rosa, MD (Italy)
Hidenao Ideta, MD (Japan)
Naoyuki Maeda, MD (Japan)
Tetsuro Oshika, MD (Japan)
Fumio Shiraga, MD (Japan)
Donald Tan, MD, MBBS (Singapore)
Jose Garcia-Arumi, MD (Spain)
Susan L. Lightman, PhD, FRCP FRCOphth (United Kingdom)
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