Awards and Achievements

2024 International Scholar Award, America Glaucoma Society
Voted one of the 100 most influential people in global ophthalmology (on four occasions)
The Powerlist by The Ophthalmologist magazine
April 2018 (no. 10) and April 2020
2024 Francisco Fantes Memorial Lecturer, Curso Interamericano
Bascom Palmer Eye Institue
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Invited speaker, American Glaucoma Society

Huntingdon Beach, CA, March 2024
Austin, TX, Feb 2023
Washington DC, Feb 2022
New York City, March 2018
San Francisco, March 2013
Invited speaker, Grand Rounds
New York University Langone Eye Center
January 2020
Invited Speaker, New York Ophthalmic Surgery, Laser and Imaging Society
January 2020
Invited Speaker and Visiting Professor, Grand Rounds
New York Eye and Ear Infirmary
February 2008
January 2020
Invited speaker, American Glaucoma Society Subspecialty Day
American Academy of Ophthalmology Annual Congress
San Francisco 2019
Las Vegas 2015
Chicago 2014
San Francisco 2009
New Orleans 2004
Orlando 2002
Invited speaker, American Uveitis Society Subspecialty Day
American Academy of Ophthalmology Annual Congress
Chicago 2018
Las Vegas 2020
Invited Keynote speaker
American Uveitis Society
Park City, Utah, USA
January 2019
Achievement award of the Asia-Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology
Hong Kong, China
February 2018
The Charamis Medal of the Hellenic Ophthalmological Society
Awarded at the biennial congress of the European Society of Ophthalmology in Barcelona
The Honored International Keynote Speaker
ASCRS Glaucoma Day
American Academy of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons
Los Angeles, USA
May 2017
NHS National Bronze Clinical Excellence Award
April 2017
The 10th Annual Alcon International Lecturer
Midwest and South Glaucoma Society
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
August 2016
NHS National Silver Clinical Excellence Award
2011 – 2016
Best Poster Award for 2 posters
American Academy of Ophthalmology Annual Congress
Las Vegas and Chicago
2015 – 2016
Senior Achievement Award
American Academy of Ophthalmology
October 2015
Invited Keynote Speaker, French Glaucoma Society
Annual Congress, Paris, France
May 2015
Nabil Sabry Lecturer, Egyptian Society for the Glaucomas
Cairo, Egypt
October 2014
Gold Medal of Merit and Honour of A Anagnostakis and A Tranta
Greek Glaucoma Society, Athens, Greece
March 2012
Inaugural MI Abdalla Lecturer
Egyptian Society for the Glaucomas, Cairo, Egypt
October 2010
Achievement Award, American Academy of Ophthalmology
2008
Treacher-Collins prize for best video
Royal College of Ophthalmologists (UK) annual congress
2008
Janice Krushner Memorial Lecturer
International Glaucoma Association, UK
2008
Best of Show Awards for 4 surgical videos
American Academy of Ophthalmology Annual Meeting
2005 – 2008
The Iris Fund for the Prevention of Blindness Award
1995
Sir William Lister Award in Ophthalmology
The Royal College of Ophthalmologists
1995
The Cripplegate and Dowsett Travelling and Educational Scholarship
1995
King Edward’s Hospital Fund for London Travelling Fellowship
1994
Magrath Clinical Scholarship in Ophthalmology
The Queen’s University of Belfast
1985
Sir Thomas Dixon and Lady Edith Dixon Travelling Scholarship for elective studies at the department of Medicine
Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong
1983
Anderson Scholarship, Coleraine Academical Institution
Coleraine, Northern Ireland
1979