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American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery

Health organization in the United States

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ASCRS publishes a monthly Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery (JCRS), as a joint production with the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons (ESCRS).

Awards

Since 1975, the ASCRS annually awards the Binkhorst medal to doctors who have made significant contributions to the science and practice of ophthalmology, which includes a stipend to give the Binkhorst lecture.

Ophthalmology Hall of Fame

Since 1999, the ASCRS has hosted the Ophthalmology Hall of Fame to which it periodically elects pioneers of ophthalmology as well as those who have significantly inspired, supported and led the development of ophthalmology.

1999

  • José I. Barraquer (1916–1998)
  • Ramón Castroviejo (1904–1987)
  • Stewart Duke-Elder (1899–1978)
  • J. Donald M. Gass (1928–2005)
  • Charles D. Kelman (1930–2004)
  • A. Edward Maumenee (1913–1998)
  • Marshall M. Parks (1918–2005)
  • Harold Ridley (1907–2001)
  • Charles L. Schepens (1912–2006)
  • Lorenz E. Zimmerman (1920–2013)

2000

  • Ernst Fuchs (1851–1930)
  • Hans Goldmann (1899–1991)
  • Albrecht von Graefe (1828–1870)
  • Robert Machemer (1933–2009)
  • Frank B. Walsh (1895–1978)

2001

  • Cornelius D. Binkhorst (1912–1995)
  • David G. Cogan (1908–1993)
  • Svyatoslav N. Fyodorov (1927–2000)
  • Hermann von Helmholtz (1821–1894)
  • Gerd Meyer-Schwickerath (1920–1992)

2002

  • Bernard Becker (1920–2013)
  • Jules Gonin (1870–1935)
  • Edward W. D. Norton (1922–1994)
  • Arnall Patz (1920–2010)

2003

  • Danièle S. Aron-Rosa (born 1934)
  • Joaquin Barraquer (1927–2016)
  • Paul A. Chandler (1897–1987)
  • William F. Hoyt (born 1926)
  • Norman S. Jaffe (born 1924)
  • Jules C. Stein (1896–1981)

2004

  • Claes H. Dohlman (born 1922)
  • Jonas S. Friedenwald, (1897–1955)
  • Govindappa Venkataswamy (1918–2006)

2005

  • Jules François (1907–1984)
  • Gholam A. Peyman
  • Robert M. Sinskey

2006

  • Algernon B. Reese (1896–1981)

2007

  • Ida Caroline Mann (1893–1983)

2009

  • Endre Alexander Balazs
  • Jacques Daviel

2010

  • Alan C. Bird
  • Judah Folkman

2017

  • Gullapalli Nageswara Rao

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