INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR CLINICAL ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY OF VISION |
2024 – Long-term ISCEV member Graham E. Holder received the “Donald M. Gass Medal”
We proudly announce: The Macula Society awarded the “Donald M. Gass Medal” to our long-term member Prof Graham E. Holder, formerly at Moorfields, now in Singapore.
The ceremony took place during the 47th Macula Society Meeting, held 7–10 February in Palm Springs in USA. The “Donald M. Gass Medal” is one of the most prestigious and respected prize in ophthalmology. In particular, Prof Graham E. Holder is the first electrophysiologist and the first “pure” PhD to be a recipient. Our distinguished member Mineo Kondo introduced him on 8 February 2024.
Congratulations!
2019 – ISCEV Board Member Laura Frishman receives the Esther Farfel Award, University of Houston's highest award
We are proud to announce that long-term ISCEV member Laura Frishman has received the prestigious Esther Farfel Award, the highest her university assigns. The award, a symbol of overall career excellence, carries a cash prize of $10,000.
Laura is a scientist with many outstanding contributions in our field. She is an ISCEV Board Member, was Editor of our Journal and currently serves as Vice President Americas. We feel that this award is most appropriate. You can find more details about her career here. We are very happy for you, Laura! (Image: University of Houston)
2019 – Long-term ISCEV member Graham E. Holder selected “Visionary of the Quarter"
We proudly announce: Vision Research Europe has selected our long-term member
Prof Graham E. Holder, formerly at Moorfields, now in Singapore, as “Visionary of the Quarter”.
His personal journey through the human visual system with clinical electrophysiology entitleld “From back to front and back again!” is available in full detail here.
Congratulations!
2018 – Honorary Member Michael Bach receives the prestigious “von Graefe Award”
The Von Graeve Award was created in memory of Albrecht von Graefe in place of the von Welzschen-Graefe-Preis by donations of the German teachers of ophthalmology as well as of the Association of Rhineland-Westphalian ophthalmologists. It serves to promote ophthalmology by honouring scientific achievements. The von Graefe prize is awarded every two years for outstanding scientific achievements in the field of ophthalmology in the German-speaking world. The awardee will present a von Graefe lecture at a ceremony following the annual meeting of the DOG in September 2019. The award procedure took place in the former “Bundestag” hall in Bonn at the yearly meeting of the German Ophthalmological Society. (Image: Biermann-Verlag)
2016 – Honorary Member Eberhart Zrenner received the highly prestigeous “von Graefe Medal”
The German Ophthalmological Society (DOG) awarded the von Graefe Medal to our esteemed college, honorary member and former president Eberhart Zrenner. This award is only handed out every 10 years and the highest award by the DOG. It honours his lifelong achievements in ophthalmology and vision science. The award ceremony took place on 1 October 2016 in Berlin during the yearly DOG conference. Prof Helbig, president of the German Ophthalmological Society, called out the development of the retinal implant technology among Prof Zrenner's many achievements. In our society Prof Zrenner has been an ardent promotor for Standards, served as Secretary General and as President, and has received the Adachi Award. We are happy for him (and proud ourselves). A detailed account of his many accomplishments earning him this reward can be found at Pro Retina (in German).
2014 – Emiko Adachi awarded “Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon”
Our distinguished member and founder of the eponymous Award, Prof Emiko Adachi, was awarded “The Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon”, directly handed to her by the Japanese Emperor. We stand proud and are honoured to have her among us.
2013 – Eberhart Zrenner now “Senior Professor” at University of Tübingen
Eberhart Zrenner, our member, former secratary & president and recipient of the Adachi Award, has received a “Senior Professorship” in Tübingen in April 2013. This means that he can pursue his research and patient care activities in Tübingen Forschungsinstitut für Augenheilkunde” for at least another five years.
2013 – Honorary Doctorate conferred on Eberhart Zrenner, former ISCEV president
We are proud to report that our former President received this→Honorary Doctorate.
2010 – Graham Holder: Alcon Award
Professor Graham Holder recieved the prestigous Alcon Award at the ARVO meeting in 2010. A Scientific Selection Committee awards this prize to a small number of outstanding contributors to ophthalmic research throughout the world and honors them both in a symposium that elite members of the eye research community attend (in this case, ARVO) and with an unrestricted research grant. Congratulations to Professor Holder.
Further details of this award available from the Alcon site →Alcon Award
2010 – Anne Fulton honoured at Harvard
I am pleased to report that Dr. Anne Fulton has been promoted to Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School. This is a well-deserved and hard-earned recognition of Dr. Fulton's continuing contributions to research, teaching, and clinical care.
In the entire history of the Longwood medical area teaching hospitals, there have only been 3 full professors of ophthalmology (Drs. Lois Smith, Elizabeth Engle, and Robert D'Amato.) Dr. Fulton's work in understanding retinal physiology in children is unparalleled in the world, and the level of clinical expertise she and her team offer her patients is equally peerless. Congratulations Dr. Fulton!
David G. Hunter, MD, PhD
2008 – Carole Panton honoured as Scobee Lecturer
Carole Panton was honoured at the The American Association of Certified Orthoptists Meeting in conjunction with The American Academy of Ophthalmology in November 2008. In the Scobee lecture, one of three named lectures in international orthoptics, Carole described with eloquence and expertise state of the art electrophysiological testing and the unique collaboration between orthoptics, electrophysiology and ophthalmology. I am honoured to be part of a team working with Carole Panton.
Carol Westall
2005 – Professor Miyake honoured
After his retirement as Professor of Ophthalmology at Nagoya University, former ISCEV president Yozo Miyake was promoted to the Director of National Institute of Sensory Organs in Japan this year. Prof. Myiake's great contributions to our society for more than twenty years are well known to ISCEV members. A major success resulting from ingenious use of the focal ERG has lead to a number of relevant insights into retinal diseases. We are very proud of his promotion to the highest position in Japanese Ophthalmologic Society, and express our sincerest congratulations.
Dr Mineo Kondo & Prof Michael Bach
2004 - ISCEV member Emiko Adachi-Usami honoured
Prof. Emiko Adachi-Usami received the “Medal with Purple Ribbon” from the Japanese goverment. She received this award on account of her tremendous contributions to Retinitis Pigmentosa Society as well as her electrophysiological works in ophthalmology.
Our warmest felicitations, Dr. Adachi-Usami!
Michael Bach
2003 - ISCEV member John Robson elected as Fellow of the Royal Society
The Royal Society, the UK national academy of science, has elected our colleague John Robson as Fellow. John Robson has contributed with many sophisticated investigations to our society. He is also a most knowledgeable co-author of the new calibration guidelines which will appear shortly in Documenta Ophthalmologica (2003, volume 107, issue 1). We are proud to have him as ISCEV member and feel that this is prestigious award is well deserved.
Congratulations, John!
Michael Bach
2002 - Former ISCEV president Eberhart Zrenner received Order of Merit
On Saturday, 22 November 2002, Eberhart Zrenner was awarded the “Bundesverdienstkreuz am Bande”, the “Order of Merit” of the Federal Republic of Germany. He was honoured for his long-standing commitment to research in the field of Retinal Degenerations and for his efforts as chairman of Pro Retina’s scientific committee on behalf of the patient self-help organization “Pro Retina Deutschland”.
The medal was conferred by Regierungspräsident Hubert Wicker in lieu of President Johannes Rau during a festive ceremony commemorating the 25th anniversary of the founding of the German Retinitis Pigmentosa Association.
Eberhart Zrenner has been an active member of ISCEV for many years and successfully served as president. We are very proud of him!
2001 - Paul A. Sieving MD PhD, named Director of the National Eye Institute (NEI)
Thursday, January 11, 2001
Ruth L. Kirschstein, M.D., acting director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), announced the appointment of Paul A. Sieving, M.D., Ph.D., as director of the National Eye Institute (NEI). Dr. Sieving is currently the Paul R. Lichter Professor of Ophthalmic Genetics and director, Center for Retinal and Macular Degeneration, at the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Michigan Kellogg Eye Center, Ann Arbor. He will join the NEI in late spring.
Paul has been a very active member of ISCEV for many years. We are very proud of him and wish him a happy & successful office there.