Past Presidents/Awards

INTERNATIONAL INTRA-OCULAR IMPLANT CLUB
HISTORY

Founders
Sixteen Founders (at the inaugural meeting on July 14, 1966 in London, England):



Mr. Pike (Rayner), Dr. Murto (USA), Michael Roper-Hall (UK), Slava Fyodorov (USSR), Neil Dallas (UK), Dr. Brown (UK), Dr. Rubinstein (UK), Warren Reese (USA), Dr. Lurie (UK), Jorn Boberg-Ans and Sonja Boberg-Ans (Denmark), Cees Binkhorst (The Netherlands), D. Peter Choyce (UK), Harold Ridley (UK), Dr. Strampelli (Italy), Edward Epstein (South Africa)

July 1975: The Intra-Ocular Implant Club is re-named The International Intra-Ocular Implant Club

Presidents
1966 – 1972 Harold Ridley
1972 – 1977 Cees Binkhorst
1977 – 1980 Peter Choyce (First secretary 66 -77)
1980 – 1984 Robert Drews
1984 – 1988 Karl Jacobi
1988 – 1992 Kensaku Miyake
1992 – 1996 Stephen Obstbaum
1996 – 1998 Bo Philipson
1998 – 2000 Douglas Koch
2000 – 2002 Emanuel Rosen
2002 – 2004 Richard Lindstrom
2004 – 2006 Leif Corydon
2006 – 2008 Hiroko Bissen-Miyajima
2008 – 2010 Howard Fine
2010 - 2012 Michael Knorz

Executive Directors
1972 – 1990 Alex Masarati
1997 – Present Jaci Lindstrom

AWARD RECIPIENTS

G. F. Jan Worst Medal
1999 Jan Worst
2000 Marvin Kwitco
2001 Norman Jaffe
2002 Robert Sinskey
2003 Richard Kratz
2004 Michael Blumenthal
2005 John Shepherd
2006 Thomas Neuhann
2007 Emanuel Rosen
2008 Okihiro Nishi
2009 Douglas Koch

2010 Roberto Zaldivar


IIIC Medal
2000 Eric Arnott
2001 Charles Kelman
2002 Karl Jacobi
2003 Bo Philipson
2004 Kensaku Miyake
2005 Stephen Obstbaum
2006 David Apple
2007 Michael Roper-Hall
2008 Richard Lindstrom
2009 Howard Gimbel

2010 Albert Galand