The mathematics of intraocular lens power calculations.
Ophthalmic surgery for the technically complicated, high-risk patient.
Ophthalmology in developing countries.
Peer Recognition
Asked to serve as a member of the Intraocular Implant Club “Genius Bar” during Session S-20 at the annual meeting of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2016
Named a “Premier Surgeon” and one of the Top 300 Refractive Cataract Surgery Innovators by the editors of Ocular Surgery News, 2016
Voted into the world-wide “Top 100 Power List” by the readership of the British publication The Ophthalmologist, 2016
Asked to give the “Raymond C. Cook Memorial Lecture” at University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, 2015
Asked to give the “International Intraocular Implant Club Medal Lecture” at the annual meeting of the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, Barcelona, Spain, 2015
Appointed “Chairman of Intraocular Lens Power Calculation Subcommittee” of the Cataract Clinical Committee, American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, 2015
Received “Senior Achievement Award” from the American Academy of Ophthalmology, 2015
Appointed to the “Cataract / Anterior Segment Knowledge Base Panel” of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, 2015
Received “Distinguished Alumni Lifetime Achievement Award” from the University of Rochester, New York, 2015
Featured in an 8-page interview in the publication of the Young Ophthalmologists Society of India, January 2015, Issue 5
Selected to give the “Arthur Lim Lecture” for the Asia Pacific Association of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, 2014
Appointed to the “Media Advisory Task Force” for meeting of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, 2014
Selected to give “Gold Medal Lecture” of the Indian Intraocular Implant Society, Chennai, India, 2014
Selected to serve as “Facilitator for the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery Web Seminar” titled Pseudophakic Dysphotopsias with Samuel Masket, Randal Olsen and Steven Dewey, 2014
Selected to give the “Charles Kelman Innovator’s Lecture” at the annual meeting of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, Boston, Massachusetts, 2014
Selected to give the “William S. and Grace Snyder Lectureship” at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, 2014
Selected to give the “Paton Medal Lecture” at Baylor University, Houston, Texas, 2014
Selected to give the “Gold Medal Lecture” at the Australian Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, Ayers Rock, Australia, 2013
Selected to give the “Crossover Lecture” for Glaucoma Day of the annual meeting of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, San Francisco, California,
2013
Appointed to the “Governing Board” of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, 2013
Appointed to the “Cataract Editorial Board” of the American Academy of Ophthalmology’s EyeNet Magazine, 2013
Appointed to the “Clinical Cataract Committee” of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, 2012
Asked to moderate the “Town Hall Series on IOL Power Calculations” with Wolfgang Haigis MD and Jaime Aramberri MD at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, Chicago, Illinois, 2012
Recipient of the “Award of Excellence in Ophthalmology” by the Canadian Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2012
Selected to give “Keynote Lecture” for the Inaugural Ary Cataract Surgery Course, Ayr, Scotland, 2011
Member of the “Cataract Café Team” of the American Academy of Ophthalmology’s annual meeting, Chicago, Illinois, 2010
Made an “Honorary Member” of the Peruvian Ophthalmology Society, Lima, Perú, 2010
Named one of 250 “Premier Surgeons” in the field of premium intraocular lenses by Slack Inc, 2010
Appointed “ASCRS Film Festival Judge” for the 2010 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, Boston, Massachusetts, 2010
Voted “Best Presenter” of the Day 2010 Hawaiian Eye Meeting, Kauai, Hawaii, 2010
Member of the “Cataract Café Team” of the American Academy of Ophthalmology’s annual meeting, San Francisco, California, 2009
Appointed a member of the “Cataract Consulting Work Group” to undertake the 5-year revision of the American Academy of Ophthalmology’s “Preferred Practice Pattern for Cataract Surgery”. This revision will also be used by the government of the People’s Republic of China as their standard for cataract surgery, 2009 through 2011
Recipient of “Secretariat Award” from the American Academy of Ophthalmology for setting up and chairing the “Cataract and Anterior Segment Committee” of the Academy’s Ophthalmic News and Educational area of the www.aao.com website, 2009
Appointed “ASCRS Film Festival Judge” for the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, San Francisco, California, 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, 2009
Selected as presenter of “Options for Managing an IOL Power Surprise” as part of the American Academy of Ophthalmology’s Spotlight Series Atlanta, Georgia, 2008
Recipient of the “Distinguished Service Gold Medal” in Ophthalmology of the International Academy for Advances in Ophthalmology Presented in Mumbai, India, 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, 2008
Featured in “As Seen From Here”, an interview for the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery On-line Podcast, Program #148 Topic: Expected effects of surgically induced astigmatism on the AcrySof toric intraocular lens, 2008
Appointed “ASCRS Film Festival Judge” for Annual Meeting of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, Chicago, Illinois, 2008
Selected by Alcon Laboratories to perform “Live Surgery” with the implantation of a toric intraocular lens at Annual Meeting of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery in Chicago Illinois, 2008
Selected as “Associate Editor” of the textbook Mastering Refractive IOLs – the Art and Science Chang D (ed) Slack Incorporated, 2008
Selected to give “Why Use Aspherics” presentation as part of the American Academy of Ophthalmology’s Spotlight Series, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2007
Made “Honorary Member” in the Sociedad Nacional de Oftalmología y Ortóptica, Guayaquil, Ecuador, 2007
Selected as the “Cataract Surgery Subspecialty Editor” for the American Academy of Ophthalmology’s educational website, The Ophthalmic News & Education Network (ONE), 2007
Developed with Douglas Koch, MD and Li Wang, MD, PhD, the software for the first on-line post-keratorefractive IOL power calculator, to be used by the membership of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, 2007
Recipient of the “American Academy of Ophthalmology Achievement Award,” 2007
Appointed “Co-chairman” of the Cataract/Lens Symposium, Asia ARVO, Singapore, 2007
Voted one of the “Top 50 Opinion Leaders in Cataract and Refractive Surgery” by the readership of Cataract and Refractive Surgery Today, 2005 and 2006
Elected to the “Board of Directors” of the American Board of Eye Surgery, 2005
Voted a “Top Doc” in the specialty of ophthalmology by medical peers in Phoenix Magazine: 1995, 1996, 1998, 2002, 2004
Selected as “Editorial Faculty Member” responsible for the American Academy of Ophthalmology’s publication Clinical Optics, Section 3 of the Basic and Clinical Science Course, 2004 to 2007
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
The presentation “Highly Accurate IOL Power Calculations” was the highest rated presentation by attendees of the Refractive IOL Symposium, Las Vegas, Nevada, 2004
Selected as “Chairman of the Continuing Medical Education Advisory Committee” of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, 2004 through 2008
Chosen to give the “Main Lecture to the Opening Scientific Session” of the 17th annual Kongress der Deutschen Ophthalmochirurgen, Nürnberg, Germany, 2004
Chosen to be the “Co-Chairman of the Singapore National Eye Center Advanced Phacoemulsification Surgery Course”, Singapore, 2004
Chosen to be the “Refractive Surgery Section Co-Chairman” for the Annual Meeting of the American College of Eye Surgeons, Miami, Florida, 2004
Submitted photograph of a single piece acrylic IOL was the most frequently downloaded image by physician members of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery Image Library Website, 2004
Featured in an interview in the September, Cataract and Refractive Surgery Today, 2003
Chosen to be the “Keynote Speaker” to the Thirteenth Annual Canadian Masters Meeting, Tucson, Arizona, 2003
Chosen to be the “Cataract Surgery Section Co-Chairman” for the Annual Meeting of the American College of Eye Surgeons, Miami, Florida, 2003
Chosen to give the “Special Cataract Lecture” at the Annual Meeting of the Philippine Ophthalmology Society, Manila, Philippines, 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, 2002
Chosen to be “Keynote Speaker” to the fifteenth Annual Meeting of the Society for Excellence in Eyecare on the topic of Partial Coherence Interferometry, Palm Beach, Aruba, 2002
Winner of “Best Presenter Award” for Understanding Wavefront Sensing at the fifteenth Annual Meeting of the Society for Excellence in Eyecare, Palm Beach, Aruba, 2002
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, 2000
(This list has been limited to the last few years.)
