Honors & Awards

Henry Kaplan, MD, FACS

Gold ARVO fellow, 2010
Elected to Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society, 2009

Rahul Bhola, MD

American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (ASCRS) Foundation Resident Excellence Award winner, 2010. The awards recognize exceptional resident performance in the areas of research, patient care, leadership and education and enable the winners to attend the ASCRS annual meeting courtesy of ASCRS Foundation.

Gary Foulks, MD, FACS

Keynote Addresses, 2010:

• Advances in Understanding Pathogenesis and Management of Blepharitis. World Cornea Congress 2010. Boston, MA April, 2010

• Meibomian Gland Dysfunction: Past, Present, and Future Cornea Trilogy, Yamaguchi University Symposium, Yamaguchi City, Japan May, 2010

• Report of the Meibomian Gland Workshop. World Ophthalmology Congress. Berlin, Germany. June, 2010

• Advances in the Design and Conduct of Clinical Trials in Dry Eye Disease. International Symposium of the Tear Film and Ocular Surface Society. Florence, Italy. September, 2010.

• Summary of the International Meibomian Gland Workshop, Royal Society of Medicine. London, England. November, 2010

• Interaction of Lipid and Protein in Meibomian Gland Dysfunction. Asia Cornea Society, Kyoto, Japan, December, 2010

Christopher Paterson, PhD, DSc

Gold ARVO fellow, 2009
Melvin Jones Fellow, Lions Clubs International, 2010, for dedicated humanitarian services in vision

Shlomit Schaal, MD, PhD

Recipient of an ARVO/Alcon Early Career Clinician-Scientist Research Award. The awards, supported by a donation by The Alcon Foundation to the ARVO Foundation for Eye Research (AFER), support researchers who are committed to careers as clinician-scientists.

Tongalp Tezel, MD

Elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha honor society, 2011