Honors and Awards

Professional Awards and Honors

• American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) Honor (Achievement) Award, Las Vegas NV 2006 (11/2006)
• Scientific journal referee and editing - Manuscript reviewer for peer-reviewed journal, BRITISH JOURNAL OF OPHTHALMOLOGY, November, 2005. (01/2005 - 12/2005)
• Scientific journal referee and editing - Manuscript reviewer for peer-reviewed journal, RETINA, 2005. (01/2005 - 12/2005)
• Fellow of American College of Surgeons (FACS) - Induction as Fellow of American College of Surgeons, October 1995 to present. (10/1995 - 11/2005)
• Honors award from American Society of Retinal Specialists - American Society of Retina Specialists (ASRS) Honors (Achievement) Award for scientific presentations at ASRS meetings, New York City, August, 2003 to present. (08/2003 - 11/2005)
• Scientific journal referee and editing - Manuscript reviewer for peer-reviewed journal, JOURNAL OF OPHTHALMIC SURGERY AND LASERS 2002. (01/2002 - 12/2002)
• Scientific journal referee and editing - Manuscript reviewer for peer-reviewed journal, JOURNAL OF REFRACTIVE SURGERY 2001 (01/2001 - 12/2001)
• Paid consultant - Consultation for NIDEK on Double-frequency YAG (532NM) eye laser (06/1995 - 10/1995)
• Scientific journal referee and editing - Manuscript reviewer for peer-reviewed journal, OPHTHALMOLOGY (Blue Journal), 1993. (01/1993 - 12/1993)
• Induction into The Retina Society - International honors society for vitreoretinal specialists (05/2004)
• Paid consultant - Advisor for Novartis Registry, Novartis Pharmaceuticals Inc., 2005. (01/2005)
• Paid consultant - Adivsor for Eyetech, OSI Pharmaceuticals Inc, 2005. (01/2005)
• Paid consultant - Advisor for Novartis training session at Henderson, Nevada, Novartis Pharmaceuticals Inc., 2005. (07/2005)
• Scientific referee and editor - Manuscript reviewer for peer-reviewed journal, EYE (Professor Ian Rennie, Editor-in-Chief, Sheffield, England). (05/2006)
• American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) Honors Award - Achievement award for the American Academy of Ophthalmology relating to contribution to educational activities at the AAO annual meetings. (08/2006)
• Paid consultant - Advisor for Eyetech, OSI Pharmaceuticals Inc., Consultant meeting, Cannes, France (09/2006)
• Scientific referee - Manuscript reviewer for peer-reviewed journal, EYE (Arun Singh, Section editor, Professor Ian Rennie, Editor-in-Chief, Sheffield, England) (11/2006)
• Scientific referee - Manuscript reviewer for peer-reviewed journal, RETINA (Alexander Brucker MD, Editor-in-Chief) (02/2007)
• Scientific referee - Manuscript reviewer for peer-reviewed journal, Canadian Journal of Ophthalmology (Graham Trope MD, Editor-in-Chief) (07/2007)
• American Society of Retina Specialists Senior Honor (Achievement) Award - Presented at Hyatt Grand Champions Hotel, Indian Wells,California, 2007 (12/2007)