NEWS & EVENTS

2022 Faculty Awards

Michael Abramoff, MD, PhD

• Gold Fellow, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)

• AI Champion Award 2022, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIMed)

Elaine Binkley, MD

• 2022 Patient’s choice provider (top 10% Press Gainey score nationally)

Keith Carter, MD, FACS

• Special Recognition Award from the Board of Trustees of the AAO for the Minority Ophthalmology Mentoring (MOM) Program

• EnergEYES Award from the Young Ophthalmology Committee

Randy Kardon, MD, PhD

• 2021 Heidelberg Engineering

2021 XTREME research award for innovative research in diagnosis and assessment of optic nerve edema using multimodel analysis

• 2022 Impact Scholar Award (h-index=64) Carver College of Medicine Faculty Scholar Recognition

Pavlina Kemp, MD

• Women in Ophthalmology (WIO)

Educators Award – AAO 2022

• Teacher of the Year, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine (2021)

• AUPO/AAO Award for Excellence in Medical Student Education Nominee (2022)

• Patients’ Choice Award. Top 10% in the Nation on Press-Ganey Survey (2022)

Sophia Chung, MD

• 2021 NANOS Merit Award

John Fingert, MD, PhD

• Named Gold Fellow of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (FARVO) at the annual ARVO meeting this year.

• Appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board for Research to Prevent Blindness

• Invited Lecturer in the Knapp Symposium at the American Ophthalmological Society

• Top 5 paper presentation at the American Glaucoma Society annual meeting

Jaclyn Haugsdal, MD

• GME Excellence in Clinical Coaching Award – GME Leadership Symposium

Robert Mullins, PhD

• Rob Mullins was recognized on the UIHC’s Wall of Scholarship: The Wall of Scholarship acknowledges current UI Carver College of Medicine faculty who are first or senior authors of published research articles that have made a significant impact on a particular field of science or medicine.

• Named Gold Fellow of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (FARVO) at the annual ARVO meeting this year.

Thomas Oetting, MD

• GME Leadership Impact Award — GME Leadership Symposium

• American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, 2020 Educator Award, 7/2021

• Newsweek Top Ophthalmologists in the United States, 7/2021

• CRST 12 Top Mentors, 12/2021

• Castle Connolly’s Top Doctors, 2022

• American Academy of Ophthalmology, Secretariat Award, 2022

• Newsweek Americas Best Eye Doctors, 9/2022

Chau Pham, MD

• Inducted into the American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery in May 2022 during the ASOPRS Spring Meeting

Andrew Pouw, MD

• Mentoring for Advancement of Physician-Scientists (MAPS) Award from the American Glaucoma Society (AGS)

• Recognized as THRIVE @ Carver Fellow

Nathaniel Sears, MD

• Named Perimetry (Visual Field) Medical Director (December 2022)

Christine Sindt, OD (and Jody Troyer, CRA)

• Creative Design and Process Award - GPLI at the 2022 Global Specialty Lens Symposium

• Grand Prize Anterior Segment image - American Academy of Optometry

Milan Sonka, PhD

• Named to National Academy of Inventors

Edwin Stone, MD, PhD

• Retina Research Foundation Award of Merit in Retina Research– 2022 Retina Society Meeting

• Gold Impact Scholar: Carver College of Medicine Impact Scholars are selected based on the Hirsch index, also known as the H-index, which represents the number of research papers a faculty member has published, and the papers’ impact as determined by how many times they have been cited by other scientists and scholars in subsequent research articles.

Budd Tucker, PhD

• Cogan Award: The annual award recognizes a researcher age 45 or younger who has made important research contributions in ophthalmology and visual science, and who shows substantial promise for future contributions.

• Elected Vice President of the Americas of the International Society for Eye Research (ISER)