2024
Lifetime Career Achievement Award
E. J. Hollan (USA)
E. J. HOLLAND (USA)
“Facing the challenges of managing sever ocular surface diseases“
Edward J. Holland, MD
is the Director of Cornea Services at Cincinnati Eye Institute and Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Cincinnati. He attended the Loyola-Stritch School of Medicine in Chicago and trained in Ophthalmology at the University of Minnesota. He completed a fellowship in cornea and external disease at the University of Iowa, and then completed a second fellowship in ocular immunology at the National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. He returned to serve as Director of Cornea and Refractive Surgery Service at the University of Minnesota. He was promoted to the position of Professor and was granted the Elias Potter Lyon Chair in Ophthalmology. He also served as President of the Minnesota Academy of Ophthalmology. Dr. Holland formerly served as the President for the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery from 2011-2012 and served as the Program Chair for 12 years. Dr. Holland was a former member of the Board of Trustees for the American Academy of Ophthalmology. He has also served on numerous committees and as the Secretariat of the Annual Meeting for the American Academy of Ophthalmology. Dr. Holland has served as the Chair of the Eye Bank Association and was the former Chair of the Medical Advisory Board as well as a longtime member of the Board of Directors. He is the past President of the Cornea Society and previously served many years on its Board of Directors.
Dr. Holland has received numerous national and international awards including the Castroviejo Award from the Cornea Society. He has received both the Honor Award, Senior Achievement Award and Life Achievement Honor Award from the American Academy of Ophthalmology. He was awarded the Binkhorst Medal and the Lindstrom Medal by the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery. He was a recipient of the Paton Society Award given by the Eye Bank Association of America. Dr. Holland was awarded the Asian Cornea Foundation Medal of Honor. Dr. Holland has published extensively in both basic and clinical research and is the author of 336 articles in peer review journals. Dr. Holland was the co-principal investigator of the Cornea Donor Study, the largest clinical trial conducted in the field of cornea. He has co-edited five editions of Cornea, the most widely read textbook on corneal disease and surgery.
Dr. Holland serves as an ex officio member of the Holland Foundation for Sight Restoration. This organization’s vision is “To ensure those suffering from corneal blindness have access to life-changing treatments and lifetime follow-up care” and its mission is “To establish ‘Centers of Excellence’ that will provide patient access and sustainability of care for the treatment of corneal blindness.”
M. J. Mannis (USA)
M. J. MANNIS (USA)
“New approach in the management of ocular surface using electrotherapy“
Mark J. Mannis, M.D., F.A.C.S.
is the Fosse Endowed Chair in Vision Science Research, Professor and Chair of the Department of Ophthalmology & Vision Science, and Director of the Ernest E. Tschannen Eye Institute at the University of California, Davis. He also serves as Co-Medical Director of Sierra Donor Services in Sacramento, California. He completed his ophthalmology residency training at Washington University in St. Louis and a fellowship in Cornea and External disease at the University of Iowa. His primary research includes studies in the development of new anti-infective agents, corneal transplantation, visual rehabilitation of patients with corneal disease, and the management of oculodermal disease and diseases of the ocular surface. Clinically, he specializes in corneal surgery and diseases of the external eye. Dr. Mannis is editor/ author of six books: Cornea –published by Elsevier–a two volume comprehensive text on the cornea and external eye co-edited with Jay Krachmer and Edward Holland, and cited as one of the 100 most important texts in ophthalmology of the 20th century, currently in its 5th Edition; Eye and Skin Disease – a text for both ophthalmologists and dermatologists on skin diseases with ocular manifestations, co-edited with Marian Macsai and Arthur Huntley; Corneal Transplantation: A History in Profiles – co-authored and co-edited with Avi Mannis; Ocular Surface Disease co-authored with Edward Holland; Ocular Surface Disease: Cornea, Conjunctiva and Tear Film co-authored with Edward Holland and W. Barry Lee, and Contact Lenses in Ophthalmic Practice, a manual on contact lenses, translated and edited by Dr. Mannis. Dr. Mannis was Editor-in-Chief of the journal Cornea and founding editor of Vision Pan-America: The Pan-American Journal of Ophthalmology. He has published widely in peer-reviewed journals with over 200 published papers and is a reviewer for the Archives of Ophthalmology, Cornea, the American Journal of Ophthalmology, Ophthalmology, and Cornea and Contact Lenses. Dr. Mannis is a recipient of the R. Townley Paton Award in eye banking from the Eye Bank Association of America and was a recipient of the Lew Wasserman Award in research from Research to Prevent Blindness, Inc. for his work in the development of antimicrobial peptides in ophthalmology. He has received the Moacyr Alvaro Gold Medal from the Federal University of Sao Paulo for contributions to ophthalmic education in Latin America and has received an honorary doctorate from the University of San Marcos in Lima, Peru. He was the 2014 recipient of the Castroviejo Medal for his lifetime contributions to the subspecialty of cornea and both the Claes Dohlman Award from the Cornea Society and the EnergEyes award from the American Academy of Ophthalmology for his mentorship and teaching accomplishments. He has served as one of the Directors of the American Board of Ophthalmology and is President Emeritus of the Cornea Society as well as the Pan-American Association of Ophthalmology. He conducts a busy referral practice in diseases of the cornea and external eye based at the University of California, Davis.