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Award of Excellence

 

The Global Specialty Lens Symposium Award of Excellence was established in 2013. The award is given periodically by the Program Committee to a distinguished clinician, scholar, and/or scientist to recognize their lifelong achievements in the field of contact lenses, especially as they relate to specialty contact lenses. The individuals selected are  recognized for their contributions to the field of contact lenses, including development, practice, translation of knowledge and education, and scholarly activity, all of which moved the field forward in seminal ways. The honorees are recognized at the annual Global Specialty Lens Symposium (GSLS) meeting in Las Vegas.

2023

Carina Koppen

Deborah Jacobs

2022

Not Awarded

2021

 Otto Wichterle

2020

Joseph Barr

2019

 

2018

Myopia Management Pioneers

Thomas Aller

Pauline Cho

Earl Smith

Jeff Walline

2017

Not Awarded

2016

Textbook Pioneers

Ed Bennett

Gerald E. Lowther

Robert B. Mandell

Anthony J. Phillips

2015

 Scleral Lens Pioneers

Don Ezekiel

Kenneth Pullum

Perry Rosenthal

Rients Visser

2014

Donald R. Korb

2013

Brien Holden

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