Professor David J. Apple of the Storm Eye Institute receives the Rayner Millennium Medal
Posted on 22/09/2000
Rayner Millennium Medal presented to David Apple in Chester.
On Friday 22 September 2000, Professor David J. Apple of the Storm Eye Institute, Medical University of South Carolina presented the Rayner Millennium Medal Lecture to delegates at the UKISCRS Annual Meeting in Chester, England. In a wide-ranging presentation Professor Apple referred to the issues which continue to preoccupy his IOL-research projects at the Storm Eye Institute: PCO-reduction, silicone-oil adherence, lens-centration, lens biocompatibility, biodegradation of lens surfaces, round versus square-edge, etc. He also surveyed the new IOL materials, some of which are starting to prove successful (such as Rayner’s Centerflex®) while others are proving to be problematic.
He closed his presentation with some illustrations of complications with the LASIK procedure. Professor Apple received a standing ovation from the Chester audience.
David J Apple, MD is Professor of Ophthalmology and Pathology, Professor and Chairman (Retired) at the Storm Eye Institute, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston. He holds the Pawek-Vallotton Chair of Biomedical Engineering and is Director of the Center for Research on Ocular Therapeutics and Biodevices (formerly named the Center for Intraocular Lens Research). He is a world-renowned expert in the field of ocular pathology, cataract surgery / intraocular implantation and refractive surgery (including excimer laser) research, and author of many articles and reviews on the life and work of Sir Harold Ridley FRS.
The history of the Rayner Medal goes back to 1978. The UK society, then known as the UK Intraocular Implant Society (UKIIS), invited Rayner to sponsor a special lecture to be given every two years at a meeting of the Society. The Rayner Medal is awarded every two years. The Medal awarded to David Apple was a specially struck millennium medal.
The complete list of Rayner medallists is as follows:
- 1979 Miles A Galin
- 1980 Neil L Dallas
- 1982 Robert C Drews
- 1984 Michael J Roper-Hall
- 1986 Jan G F Worst
- 1988 John Marshall
- 1990 Christophe Huber
- 1992 George Waring III
- 1994 Robert Osher
- 1996 I. Howard Fine
- 1998 Douglas Koch
- 2000 David J. Apple
