Two Australian ophthalmologists and a New Zealand eye doctor have been named among the Top 100 most influential people in ophthalmology today.
Professor Graham Barrett, head of the ophthalmology department at Sir Charles Gardiner Hospital in Perth, who devised the popular Barrett Toric Calculator and Professor Robyn Guymer, deputy director of the Centre for Eye Research Australia (CERA), who is a leading expert in age-related macular degeneration and one of the first to define nascent geographic atrophy through OCT. The kiwi nominee is Professor Charles McGhee, the Maurice Paykel Professor and Chair of Ophthalmology at the University of Auckland.
Published each year for the last three years, the list is put together by the UK-based journal The Ophthalmologist which, supported with a reader vote, selects what it believes are the top 100 surgeons, clinicians, company directors and scientists who have made a significant international contribution to the field of ophthalmology.
“We realise our Power Lists can, and should, never be definitive,” said The Ophthalmologist. “But who can argue that the faces within, both familiar and new, do not beautifully highlight the brilliance and diversity found within the field? Accordingly, we bring you 100 reasons to be proud of ophthalmology.”
Others on the list include Professor Donald Tan (Singapore) who developed new forms of selective lamellar keratoplasty such as DALK, DSAEK, and DMEK; Assistant Professor Ike Ahmed (Canada) dubbed “the rockstar of MIGS”; retina specialist Professor Anat Loewenstein (Israel); and intraocular lens specialist Professor Gerd Auffarth, director of the David J Apple International Laboratory of Ocular Pathology at the University Eye Clinic of Heidelberg, Germany. For the full list, visit: https://theophthalmologist.com/power-list/2018/
