Honors and Awards Sanjay Asrani, MD, received a Senior Achievement Award from the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) this year. He also received a U.S. patent for a device to lower eye pressure. Edward Buckley, MD, will become Chair of the American Ophthalmology Society Council in 2020. He gave the 4th Kushner Medal Lecture and the 16th Annual American Eye Study Club Foundation Jerry and Donna Knauer Lecture.
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Jiaxi Ding, MD, received an Achievement Award from the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO). Laura Enyedi, MD, received a 2019 Women in Ophthalmology (WIO) Mentorship Award. She was also named section editor of the AAO ONE Network for pediatric ophthalmology and strabismus. Sina Farsiu, PhD, was elevated by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) to an IEEE Fellow for contributions to multi-frame super resolution and ophthalmic image processing. Sharon Fekrat, MD, and Dilraj Grewal, MD, are among the first group of researchers whose proposal was
Dilraj Grewal, MD, U.S. Senator Susan Collins, and Sharon Fekrat, MD, at her invited presentation to the Senate Committee Special Committee on Aging in April 2019.
selected for funding through the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation’s (ADDF) Diagnostics Accelerator. They will be evaluating multimodal retinal imaging in the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease and incorporating deep learning.
Leon W. Herndon, Jr., MD, was named by the dean of Duke University School of Medicine to chair the Department of Neurology’s 5-Year Review Committee.
Dilraj Grewal, MD, received a Senior Achievement Award from the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO). He was invited to speak at the Royal College of Ophthalmologists Annual Congress 2019 in Glasgow, UK, in May 2019.
Ilya Leyngold, MD, was promoted to associate professor of ophthalmology. He received the add American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery before (ASOPRS) Research Award for the most outstanding original research paper of the year.
Preeya Gupta, MD, was named an emerging leader in The Ophthalmologist Power List 2019. She serves on the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (ASCRS) Corneal Clinical Committee.
Eleonora Lad, MD, PhD, was inducted into the prestigious Retina Society during the invitation-only, 2019 Annual Meeting. She was selected as Faculty for the Heed Society resident retreat. Lad was invited to serve on the Federal Drug Administration’s Ophthalmic Imaging Collaborative Community >