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 2023 Achievement Award for their contributions made to the Academy, its scientific and educational programs and to ophthalmology.
United States
Usiwoma E. Abugo, MD (Abingdon, MD)
Emilio A. Arce-Lopez, MD (San Juan, PR)
Robert M. Beardsley, MD (Eugene, OR)
Robert Leonard Bergren, MD (Monroeville, PA)
Jill E. Bixler, MD (Ann Arbor, MI)
Barry E. Breaux, MD (Emeryville, CA)
Susan K. Burden, MD (Winston Salem, NC)
Craig John Chaya, MD (Salt Lake City, UT)
Albert Y. Cheung, MD (Norfolk, VA)
Robert Alexander Clark, MD (Long Beach, CA)
Charles A. Cole, MD (New York, NY)
Megan E. Collins, MD (Baltimore, MD)
Stephanie Collins Mangham, MBA, COA, OCSR (Austin, TX)
Jason N. Crosson, MD (Birmingham, AL)
Mohammad H. Dastjerdi, MD (Newark, NJ)
Eva Devience, MD (Ellicott City, MD)
Nancy D. Efferson-Bonachea, MD (Manchester, NH)
Isaac C. Ezon, MD (West Long Branch, NJ)
Carla D. Ford, MD (Columbus, OH)
Robert S. Gold, MD (Maitland, FL)
Daniel B. Goldberg, MD (Bonita Springs, FL)
Raquel Goldhardt, MD, FACS (Miami, FL)
Seanna R. Grob, MD (Larkspur, CA)
Scott M. Guess, MD (Missoula, MT)
Ying Han, MD, PhD (San Francisco, CA)
Ben J. Harvey, MD (Oklahoma City, OK)
Kathryn Masselam Hatch, MD (Waltham, MA)
Andrew M. Hendrick, MD (Atlanta, GA)
David C. Herman, MD (Duluth, MN)
Kourtney A. Houser, MD (Durham, NC)
Jean-Pierre Hubschman, MD (Los Angeles, CA)
Cristos Ifantides, MD, MBA (Cape Coral, FL)
Emily Jones, MD (Portland, OR)
Pavlina S. Kemp, MD (Iowa City, IA)
Shawn J. Khan, MD, MBA, MEd (Naples, FL)
D. Brian Kim, MD (Dalton, GA)
Jimmy K. Lee, MD (Irvine, CA)
N. Grace Lee, MD (Brookline, MA)
Phoebe D. Lenhart, MD (Atlanta, GA)
Irene H. Ludwig, MD (Franklin, TN)
Viraj J. Mehta, MD, MBA (Bethesda, MD)
Mark Michels, MD, FACS (North Palm Beach, FL)
Heather Frances Modjesky (Lancaster, PA)
Daniel B. Moore, MD (Lexington, KY)
William G. Myers, MD (Riverwoods, IL)
Steven M. Naids, MD (Wellington, FL)
Ghazala A. Datoo O'Keefe, MD (Atlanta, GA)
Seth M. Pantanelli, MD (Hershey, PA)
Kristina M. Price, MD (Marietta, GA)
Paul L. Proffer, MD, FACS (Amarillo, TX)
Kamran M. Riaz, MD (Oklahoma City, OK)
David Rafael Rivera, MD (Westerly, RI)
Osamah J Saeedi, MD (Baltimore, MD)
Ahmed A. Sallam, MD, PhD (Little Rock, AR)
Gerami D. Seitzman, MD (Burlingame, CA)
Steven Rhodes Shields, MD (Saint Louis, MO)
Jordana M. Smith, MD (Tucson, AZ)
Priyanka Sood, MD (Atlanta, GA)
Manju L. Subramanian, MD (Boston, MA)
Victoria L. Tseng, MD, PhD (Los Angeles, CA)
Irena Tsui, MD (Los Angeles, CA)
Mitul R. Vakharia, MD (Rockford, IL)
Sarah H. Van Tassel, MD (New York, NY)
Kateki Vinod, MD (New York, NY)
Basil K. Williams, Jr., MD (Miami, FL)
Alex Yuan, MD, PhD (Cleveland, OH)
Nazlee Zebardast, MD (Boston, MA)
Sandy X. Zhang-Nunes, MD (San Gabriel, CA)
Canada
Netan Choudhry, MD, FRCS(C) (Etobicoke, Canada)
Asia Pacific
Lional Raj Daniel Raj Ponniah, MD (Tamilnadu, India)
Takeo Fukuchi, MD, PhD (Niigata, Japan)
Arun K. Jain, MD (Chandigarh, India)
Toru Noda, MD (Tokyo, Japan)
Rajaraman Revathi, MBBS (Coimbatore, India)
Ho-Seok Sa, MD, PhD (Seoul, South Korea)
Europe
Don Julian De Silva, MD, MBBS (London, United Kingdom)
Helena Prior Filipe, MD, MMED (Lisboa, Portugal)
Marion Ronit Munk, MD (Hinterkappelen, Switzerland)
Sobha Sivaprasad, MBBS, FRCS (Woodford Green, United Kingdom)
Diego Strianese, MD, PhD (Naples, Italy)
Middle East and North Africa
Magdy S. Moussa, MD, MBBCh (Tanta, Egypt)
Pan America
Maria A. Henriquez, MD (Lima, Peru)
Juan Carlos Serna, MD (Mexico City, Mexico)
Russia
Ekaterina Denisova, MD, PhD (Moscow, Russia)