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  • Achievement Award

    2022 Achievement Award Recipients

    Awards Committee

    Individuals earning 10 points and approved by the Awards Committee and the Board of Trustees receive the Achievement Award. The Board of Trustees is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2022 Achievement Award for their contributions made to the Academy, its scientific and educational programs and to ophthalmology.

    United States

    Nagham Al-Zubidi, MD (Houston, TX)
    Amin Ashrafzadeh, MD (Modesto, CA)
    Shamik Bafna, MD (Brecksville, OH)
    Cagri G. Besirli, MD (Ann Arbor, MI)
    Durga S. Borkar, MD (Durham, NC)
    William Z. Bridges, Jr, MD (Asheville, NC)
    Ninita H. Brown, MD, PhD (Newnan, GA)
    Michael Brush, MD (Bellevue, WA)
    Vatinee Y. Bunya, MD (Penn Valley, PA)
    Jonathan Chang, MD (Madison, WI)
    Roomasa Channa, MD (Madison, WI)
    Ian P. Conner, MD, PhD (Pittsburgh, PA)
    Susan M. Culican, MD, PhD (Minneapolis, MN)
    Theodore Curtis, MD (Bucksport, ME)
    Carl J. Danzig, MD (Deerfield Beach, FL)
    Brett W. Davies, MD (San Antonio, TX)
    Alejandra G. de Alba Campomanes, MD (San Francisco, CA)
    Thuy A. Doan, MD, PhD (San Francisco, CA)
    Joshua R. Ehrlich, MD (Ann Arbor, MI)
    Forrest J. Ellis, MD (Falls Church, VA)
    Valerie I. Elmalem, MD (Roslyn Heights, NY)
    Suzanne M. Falkenberry, MD (La Crosse, WI)
    Asim V. Farooq, MD (Chicago, IL)
    Simon Fung, MD, MA, FRCOphth (Los Angeles, CA)
    David J. Gajda, MD (Paradise, CA)
    Matthew F. Gardiner, MD (Stoneham, MA)
    Mithra O. Gonzalez, MD (Rochester, NY)
    Gaurav Gupta, MD (Providence, RI)
    Pankaj C. Gupta, MD (Grafton, OH)
    Meron Haile, MD (San Francisco, CA)
    Nieraj Jain, MD (Atlanta, GA)
    Jeffrey A. Kammer, MD (Brentwood, TN)
    Christine Nichols Kay, MD (Mc Intosh, FL)
    Leo A. Kim, MD (Boston, MA)
    Brad E. Kligman, MD (Port Washington, NY)
    Courtney L. Kraus, MD (N Bethesda, MD)
    Cecilia S. Lee, MD (Seattle, WA)
    Gary L. Legault, MD (San Antonio, TX)
    Cory M. Lessner, MD (Sunrise, FL)
    Thellea K. Leveque, MD (Mercer Island, WA)
    Steven J. Lichtenstein, MD, FACS (Peoria, IL)
    Amy Lin, MD (Salt Lake City, UT)
    Jennifer L. Lindsey, MD (Nashville, TN)
    Allison R. Loh, MD (Portland, OR)
    Peter W. MacIntosh, MD (Chicago, IL)
    Mario A. Meallet, MD (Marina Del Rey, CA)
    Yasha S. Modi, MD (New York, NY)
    Donald A. Morris, DO (Pittsburgh, PA)
    Ann P. Murchison, MD, MPH (Philadelphia, PA)
    Afshan A. Nanji, MD (Portland, OR)
    Jacquelyn A. O'Banion, MD (Atlanta, GA)
    Gregory S. H. Ogawa, MD (Albuquerque, NM)
    Yvonne Ou, MD (San Francisco, CA)
    Shriji Patel, MD (Nashville, TN)
    Jason H. Peragallo, MD (Atlanta, GA)
    Nicholas A. Ramey, MD (Roanoke, VA)
    Anne T. Riddering, PhD (Novi, MI)
    Michael L. Savitt, MD (Libertyville, IL)
    Kevin R. Scott, MD (Fairfax, VA)
    Frank A. Scotti, MD (Encinitas, CA)
    Paras R. Shah, MD (Chicago, IL)
    Vipul C. Shah, MD (Matthews, NC)
    Ankoor R. Shah, MD (Houston, TX)
    Manjool M. Shah, MD (Ann Arbor, MI)
    Roman Shinder, MD (Roslyn Heights, NY)
    Ravi S. J. Singh, MD (Leawood, KS)
    Jasleen K. Singh, MD (Chesterfield, MO)
    Divya Srikumaran, MD (Ellicott City, MD)
    Walter A. Steigleman, MD (Gainesville, FL)
    Russell J. Swan, MD (Bozeman, MT)
    Anjali Tannan, MD (Elmhurst, IL)
    Steven B. Thom, MD (Fargo, ND)
    Peter J. Timoney, MBBCh (Lexington, KY)
    Edmund Tsui, MD (Los Angeles, CA)
    Virginia Miraldi Utz, MD (Cincinnati, OH)
    Keith A. Walter, MD (Winston Salem, NC)
    Brian A. Welcome, MD (Greenville, SC)
    Helen M. Wu, MD (Altadena, CA)

    Asia Pacific

    Amit Gupta, MBBS (Haryana, India)
    Min Kim, MD (Seoul, South Korea)
    Alan A. McNab, MBBS (Melbourne, Austrialia)
    Priya Narang, MS (Gujarat, India)
    Hyeong Gon Yu, MD (Seoul, South Korea)

    Europe

    Richard L. Scawn, MBBS (London, United Kingdom)

    Middle East and North Africa

    Ebtisam K. Al Alawi, MD (Manama, Bahrain)
    Mehdi Modarres, MD (Tehran, Iran)

    Pan America

    David R. Jordan, MD (Ottawa, Canada)
    Augusto Paranhos, MD (Sao Paulo, Brazil)