PAST HONORARY LECTURES AND MEDAL WINNERS

Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland

• 2023 "Paediatric Cataract Diagnostics - and the Role of Genetics in Improving Precise Diagnosis"
  Professor Christopher Lloyd (UK))
• 2022 "2022: An Orbital Odyssey"
  Professor Timothy Sullivan (Australia)

Virtual (due to COVID-19)

• 2021 "Developing a clinical research program - 30 years of Acanthamoeba keratitis"
  Prof John Dart (London)
• 2020 "Adjusting to COVID-19 in 2020 and Beyond - Development in Home Monitoring including Fluid Quantification in AMD"
  Prof Anat Loewenstein (Israel)

University of Dublin, Trinity College

• 2019 "Technical Errors in Ophthalmic Surgery"
  Mr. Paul Sullivan (London)

Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland

• 2018 "When Irish Eyes are Smiling"
  Dr Michael Brennan (North Carolina)

University of Dublin, Trinity College

• 2017 "The Evolution of Paediatric Cataract Surgery"
• Prof. Michael O'Keeffe (Dublin)
• 2016 "Accepting the unacceptable: Prevention and Treatment of Rejection of Donor Cornea"
  Mr Frank Larkin (London)

Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland

• 2015 "One Design with Multiple Derivations"
  Prof dr. Marie-José Tassignon (Belgium)
• 2014 "Physics in Everyday Ophthalmology and Vitreoretinal Surgery"
  Prof David Wong (Hong Kong)
• 2013 "Ophthalmoscopy in the 21st century"
  Prof Nancy Newman (Atlanta)
• 2012 "Endothelial Keratoplasty: DMEK or DMET - what if Fuchs endothelial dystrophy does not exist?"
  Dr Gerrit Melles (Amsterdam)
• 2011 "Novel Therapeutic Approaches for Diabetic Retinopathy"
  Prof Loyd Paul Aiello (Boston)

University of Dublin, Trinity College

• 2010 The Lecture was not held due to the untimely death of Mr John Lee
• 2009 "Practical Thoughts on how we Doctors can Best Help our Patients, Ourselves and the World”
  Dr Geroge Spaeth (Philadelphia)
• 2008 "Normal tension Glaucoma-does it exist?"
  Prof Roger Hitchings (London)
• 2007 "Is there any Room for Surgery in AMD Treatment now?"
  Prof Dr Bernd Kirchhof (Dusseldorf)
• 2006 "Developmental Eyelid Abnormalities"
  Mr Richard Collin (London)

Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland

• 2005 "Biological Treatments of AMD"
  Prof. Alan Bird (London)
• 2004 "Age – related maculopathy: New aspects of pathogenesis, prevention and treatment"
  Prof. Peter Wiedemann (Leipzig)
• 2003 "Advances in the Diagnosis & Management Carotid-Cavernous Sinus Fistulas"
  Prof. Neil Miller (Baltimore)
• 2002 "What’s new in Ocular Tumours and Pseudotumours?"
  Dr. Jerry A. Shields (Philadelphia)
• 2001 "Pathogenesis of Glautomatous Damage"
  J. Flammer, (Basle)

University of Dublin, Trinity College

• 2000 "Blindness Prevention: From Science to Policy"
  A. Sommer (Boston)
• 1999 "Unnatural Injuries "
  D. Taylor (London)
• 1998 "Refractive Surgery – A replacement for Spectacles!"
  Patrick I. Condon(Waterford)
• 1997 "Meningiomas of the Anterior Visual System"
  Michael Sanders, (London)
• 1996 "Graves Eye Disease"
  Patricia Kendall-Taylor (Newcastle-upon-Tyne)

Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland

• 1995 "Degenerative Retinal Disease: Towards Gene Therapy"
  Peter Humphries (Dublin)
• 1994 "Complications of Diabetic Vitrectomy"
  David McLeod (Manchester)
• 1993 "From the Eyelids to Cranio-Facial Surgery"
  Paul Tessier (Paris)
• 1992 "Modern Lens Surgery"
  Thomas Neuhann, (Munich)
• 1991 "Understanding Amblyopia"
  Colin Blakemore (Oxford)

University of Dublin, Trinity College

• 1990 "Some Factors Affecting the Visual Outcome of Corneal Transplantations"
  Douglas John Coster (Adelaide)
• 1989 "Uveal Effusion"
  Jean Jacques de Laey (Ghent)
• 1988 "The Management of Diabetic Retinopathy"
  Matthew D. Davis (Madison, Wisconsin)
• 1987 "Refractive Surgery"
  Herbert Kaufman (New Orleans)
• 1986 "Radiation Retinopathy"
  Desmond Archer (Belfast)

Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland

• 1985 "The Lens Capsule: Structure, Anterior Capsulectomy and Lens Implantation"
  Robert Drews (Clayton)
• 1984 "Sub-Retinal Neovascularization in Senile Macular Degeneration"
  Gabriel Coscas (Paris)
• 1983 "Goniotomy in the Treatment of Isolated Trabeculodysgenesis"
  Robert Shaffer (San Francisco)
• 1982 "Early Vitrectomy in the Management of Vasoproliferative Diabetic Retinopathy"
  Michael O’Shea (Toronto)
• 1981 "Communication in Ophthalmology"
  Geraoid P. Crookes (Dublin)

University of Dublin, Trinity College

• 1980 "Endocrine Ophthalmopathy"
  Andreas Bouzas (Athens)
• 1979 "Metallosis Oculi"
  Helmut Neubauer (Cologne)
• 1978 "Modern Trends in Retinal Detachment Surgery"
  G. Meyer Schwickerath (Essen)
• 1977 "Curious Colobomata"
  Joan Mullaney (Dublin)
• 1976 "New Methods in the Operative Treatment of Glaucoma"
  Heinrich Harms (Tubingen)

Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland

• 1975 "Changing Concepts as to Prognosis and Management of Small Malignant Melanomas of the Choroid"
  Lorenz Zimmerman (Washington)
• 1974 "The Lower Visual Field and Its Importance to Man"
  Stephen Miller (London)
• 1973 "Vascular Basement Membrane Changes in Diabetic Retinopathy"
  Norman Ashton (London)
• 1972 "Orbital Fractures"
  G. M. Bleeker (Amsterdam)
• 1971 "Modern Problems in Glaucoma"
  Philip Jameson-Evans (Birmingham)

University of Dublin, Trinity College

• 1970 "Plastic Surgery and the Eye"
  J. B. Prendiville (Dublin)
• 1969 "Herpes Zoster Ophthalmicus"
  Harold G. Schere (Philadelphia)
• 1968 "Uveitis - Immunopathy or Infection"
  David Geraint James (London)
• 1967 "Cataract in General Disease"
  Gunnar Von Bahr (Uppsala)
• 1966 "Some Aspects of Corneal Wound Healing"
  Frank Newell (Chicago)

Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland

• 1965 "Change versus Progress in Ophthalmological Surgical Techniques of the Last Ten Years"
  John Foster (Leeds)
• 1964 "Ophthalmic Manifestations of Bilateral, Non-Occipital Lesions of the Cerebrum"
  David Cogan (Boston)
• 1963 "Ocular Manifestations of Diabetic Angiopathy"
  Knud Lundbaech (Aarhus)
• 1962 "Modern Trends In Cataract Surgery"
  Algernon Reese (New York)
• 1961 "Malignant Uveal Melanomata"
  J. Francois (Ghent)

University of Dublin, Trinity College

• 1960 "The Diagnostic Value of the Biomicroscopy of the Posterior Parts of the Eye"
  H. Goldmann (Berne)
• 1959 "The History of Ophthalmology in Ireland"
  L. B. Somerville-Large (Dublin)
• 1958 "Gross and Minute Defects of the Germ Cells and Clinical Ophthalmology"
  A. Hagedoorn (Amsterdam)
• 1957 "Third Nerve Regeneration - Clinical Evaluation"
  Frank B. Walsh (Baltimore)
• 1956 "Etiology and Pathogeny of Uveitis"
  Moacyr E. Alvero (San Paulo)

Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland

• 1955 "The Problem of Orbital Implants after Enucleation"
  H. Arruga (Barcelona)
• 1954 "Some New Contributions to the Diagnostic Problems of Glaucoma"
  G. B. Bietti (Parma)
• 1953 "The Early Symptoms of Macular Disease"
  Marc Amsler (Zurich)
• 1952 "Diffuse Collagenous Diseases with Ocular Complications"
  Derrick Vail (Chicago)
• 1951 "The Surgical Treatment of Detachment of the Retina, with Special Reference to the Treatment of Recurrence"
  H. J. M. Weve (Utrecht)

University of Dublin, Trinity College

• 1950 No Lecture
• 1949 "The Preparation of the Whole Patient for Cataract Surgery"
  Daniel B. Kirby (New York)
• 1948 No Lecture
• 1947 "The Problems of Sympathetic Ophthalmia"
  Bernard R. Samuels (New York)
• 1946 "Ophthalmological Aspects of Malnutrition"
  Stewart Duke-Elder (London)

Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland

• 1945 "Retinal Vascular Sclerosis"
  W. Dermot O’Donoghue (Dublin)
• 1944 "The Social and Medical Problems of Phlyctenular Disease in Dublin"
  J. B. McArevey (Dublin)
• 1943 "The Sources, Distribution and Disposal of the Blood in Ocular Haemorrhage"
  A. J. Ballantyne (Glasgow)
• 1942 "Studies in Night Vision and Night Visual Judgement as It Concerns the Ophthalmology of Flying"
  P. C. Livingston (London)
• 1941 "The Clinical Pathology of Fundus Lesions"
  Arnold Sorsby (London)

University of Dublin, Trinity College

• 1940 "Pituitary Tumours: Ocular and Surgical Aspects"
  Adams A. McConnell (Dublin)
• 1939 "The Causes, Preve ntion and Treatment of Spontaneous Retinal Detachment"
  Karl Lindner (Vienna)
• 1938 "Lesions Affecting the Visual Pathway and their Relation to Neurosurgery"
  Alan J. Mooney (Dublin)
• 1937 "The Aetiology and Treatment of Convergent Concomitant Strabismus"
  S. B. Alabaster (Birmingham)
• 1936 "Transplantation of the Cornea"
  J. W. Tudor Thomas (Cardiff)

Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland

• 1935 "Some Aspects of Glaucoma"
  R. Affleck Greeves (London)
• 1934 "The Bearing of Embryology on Clinical Diagnosis"
  Ida Mann (London)
• 1933 "Some Impressions derived from my Experience of Cataract Work"
  Robert E. Wright (London)
• 1932 "Modern Developments in Cataract Extraction"
  Maurice H. Whiting (London)
• 1931 "The Modern Treatment of Traumatic and Spontaneous Detachment of the Retina"
  Charles B. Goulden (London)

University of Dublin, Trinity College

• 1930 "The Trachoma Problem"
  Francis J. Lavery (Dublin)
• 1929 "The Contribution of the Slit-Lamp to Ophthalmology"
  Louis E. J. Werner (Dublin)
• 1928 "Some Medico- Legal Aspects of Ophthalmology"
  Robert J. Coulter (Newport, Mon.)
• 1927 "The Retinitis of Arterio-Sclerosis and Its Relation to the Retinitis of Renal Disease and Cerebral Vascular Disease"
  Robert Foster Moore (London)
• 1926 "Observations on the use of the Slit- Lamp"
  Thomas Harrison Butler (Birmingham)

Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland

• 1925 "Accommodation"
  Charles B. Goulden (London)
• 1924 "The Evolution of Pupillary Reactions"
  E. Treacher Collins (London)
• 1923 "The Movements of the Eyes"
  Grafton Elliott Smith (London)
• 1922 "(ii)The Influence of Vision in the Development of Man’s Intellectual Powers"
  Grafton Elliott Smith (London)
• 1921 "(i)The Influence of Vision in the Development of Man’s Intellectual Powers"
  Grafton Elliott Smith (London)

University of Dublin, Trinity College

• 1920 "Disturbance of Visual Space Perception"
  Gordon M. Holmes (London)
• 1919 "The Cortical Localization of Vision"
  Gordon M. Holmes (London)
• 1918 "A Survey of Cases of Concomitant Squint in the Practice of the late Mr. P. W. Maxwell"
  Euphan M. Maxwell (Dublin)
• 1917 "Observations on Eye Conditions met with in Malta in 1916-1917"
  Euphan M. Maxwell (Dublin)
• 1916 "Diagnosis in Uveitis"
  Euphan M. Maxwell (Dublin)

 

• 2023 "Mitochondrial Function - a Potentially Modifiable Risk Factor for Glaucoma? "
  Prof David Garway-Heath (UK)
• 2022 "Improving the outcomes of surgery for Retinal Detachment"
  Prof Stanley Chang (USA)
• 2021 "Recent Clinically Relevant Outcomes from the DRCR Retina Network"
  Dr Neil Bressler and Dr Susan Bressler (Boston)
• 2020 - cancelled due to Covid 19
• 2019 "Old Diseases in the New Century: Deja Vu in the Uveitis Clinic"
  Prof Nicholas Jones (Manchester)
• 2018 "The Challenge of Cataract Surgery - Hard Work to Make it Look Easy"
  Dr. Cynthia Bradford (Oklahoma)
• 2017 "Climbing the Glaucoma Mountain – Future Challenges and Opportunities"
  Prof. Jonathan Crowston (Melbourne)
• 2016 "Regulation of Corneal Inflammation and Immunity"
  Prof. Reza Dana (Massachusetts)
• 2015 "New Directions in the Management of Diabetic Retinopathy"
  Mr Simon Harding (Liverpool)
• 2014 "MERSI Guidelines for a Preferred Practice Pattern for the Care of Patients with Recurrent or Steroid-Dependent Uveitis"
  Prof Stephen Foster (Massachusetts)
• 2013 "Trans-synaptic Degeneration in the Human Visual System"
  Dr Gordon Plant (London)
• 2012 "Retinal Oximetry in Health & Disease"
  Prof Einar Steffanson (Reykjavik, Iceland)
• 2011 "OCT Application in Developing Eyes"
  Prof Cindy Toth (North Carolina)
• 2010 "The Link between Infection and Uveitis"
  Prof John Forrester (Aberdeen, Scotland)
• 2009 "Evolving Concepts in Pharmacologic Vitreolysis"
  Dr Brooks W. McCuen (North Carolina)
• 2008 "An Update on Amblyopia"
  Prof Gunther von Noorden (Houston)
• 2007 "Wavefront-Guided Refractive Surgery: Advances and Impediments"
  Dr Dimitri Azar (Chicago)
• 2006 "Reconstruction of the Anterior Segment"
  Mr Bruce Noble (Yorkshire)
• 2005 "Challenging Cases and the Management of Complication during Cataract Surgery"
  Mr. Robert Osher (Cincinnati)
• 2004 "The Twist and Turn of Macular Surgery"
  Mr. David Wong (Liverpool)
• 2003 "Worldwide Eye Disease – It’s Prevention and Treatment"
  Professor Gordon Johnson
• 2002 "What is Neuro-Ophthalmology?"
  Professor Peter Eustace, (Dublin)
• 2000 No lecture
• 1999 "High Risk Corneal Grafting – Is There an Answer?"
  David. Easty, (Bristol)
• 1998 "Glacuoma Therapy in the 21 st Century"
  Harry Quigley (Baltimore))
• 1997 "The Case for Corneal Transplantation"
  Louis Collum (Dublin)
• 1996 "Combined Cataract and Glaucoma Surgery"
  Bo Phillipson (Stockholm)
• 1995 "A History of Neuro-Ophthalmology: An American Perspective"
  T. R. Hedges (Philadelphia)

• 2022 "Oculoplastics and Orbit Today"
  Ms Elizabeth McElnea (Galway)
• 2021 Cancelled due to Covid 19
• 2020 Cancelled due to Covid 19
• 2019 "Retinopathy of Prematurity"
  Ms Claire Hartnett (Dublin)
• 2018"Strabismus Serendipity"
  Mr Edward Loane (Dublin)
• 2017 "Retinal Detachment- Past, Present and Future’"
  Mr Ian Dooley (Dublin)
• 2016 "Tackling Immunological Events in Corneal Transplantation"
  Professor Conor Murphy (Dublin)
• 2015 "Diabetic retinopathy and Maculopathy – Seeing beyond Anti-VEGF Therapy"
  Mr Paul Connell (Dublin)

• 2023 "Uveal Melanoma in Ireland"
  A. Greene
• 2022 "The Ecological Impact of Cataract Surgery - Single-use Items Consumption and Knowledge of Ophthalmic Theatre Staff in University Hospital Limerick"
  E. Mahon
• 2021 "The role of αvβ3 integrin and its inhibition in lamina cribrosa cell mechanotransduction in glaucoma"
  S. Powell
• 2019 "Audit of Acute Acquired Esotropia in Adults with Myopia"
  C. McCloskey
• 2018 "Predisposing Risk factors, Clinical and Microbiological Characteristics of Moraxella Keratits"
  T. McSwiney
• 2017 "Comparing the Effectiveness and Tolerability of Preservative-Free Tafluprost Versus Preserved Latanoprost in the Management of Glaucoma and Ocular Hypertension"
  D. Brinkman
• 2016 "Design of Nanoparticle- based MicroRNA Therapeutics in Sjöaut;gren's Syndrome"
  Prof. Reza Dana (Massachusetts)
• 2015 "Pellino3 as a Novel Target for the Treatment of Primary Sjogren’s Syndrome Related Dry Eyes"
  Q. Pilson
• 2014 "A Molecular Analysis of Human Lamina Cribrosa and Trabecular Meshwork Cell Behaviours as Determined by the Surrounding Extracellular Matrix"
  D Wallace
• 2013 "The Dublin Uveitis Evaluation Tool (DUET) – an Algorithm for Earlier Diagnosis of Spondyloarthropathies by Ophthalmologists in Acute Anterior Uveitis"
  M. O Rourke
• 2012 "Proteomic Research in Uveal Melanoma"
  P. Ramasamay
• 2011 "Prognostic Indicators and Outcome Measures for Surgical Removal of Symptomatic Non-Advanced Cataract"
  S. Charlampidou
• 2010 "Epidemiology And Clinical Associations Of Primary Retinal Detachment In Scotland: 2 Years Of Prospective Recruitment"
• 2009 "The Effects Of Acute Cigarette Smoke Exposure on Retinal Pigment Epithelial Cells (Arpe-19)"
  S. Ni Dhughbhaill
• 2008 "A Retrospective Study of the Paediatric Practice of one Community Ophthalmologist Over Seventeen Years in Cavan"
  A. Blake
• 2007 "MRI as a Novel Non-Invasive Method for In Vivo Tracking of Endothelial Progenitor Cells in a Model of Choroidal Neovascularisation"
  D. Kent
• 2006 "Surviving Expression & Prognostic Significance in Chorodial Melanoma"
  C. Cleary
• 2005 "A Randomized Placebo Controlled Double-Masked Phase 3 Study of the Treatment of Subfoveal Predominantly Occult Choroidal Neovascularization (CNV) Secondary to Age -Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) using Transpupillary Thermotherapy (TTT)"
  A. Hogan
• 2004 "Correlation of Central Corneal Thickness with vascular risk factors in Normal Tension Glaucoma"
  A. Doyle
• 2003 "Macular Pigment Optical Density and Dietary Intake of Lutein and Zeaxanthin in Healthy Subjects"
  J. Nolan
• 2002 "Incubation with Endogenous Retinal Antioxidants Inhibits Chemokine Release by PRE in an In-Vitro Model of Age-Related Macular Degeneration"
  G.T. Higgins

• 2023 "Printed Biomechanical Model of the Human Lamina Cribrosa"
  S. Neary
• 2022 "12-month analysis of emergency argon laser retinopexy in an Irish tertiary hospital"
  R. Holohan
• 2021 "Bilateral Penetrating Eye Injury Secondary to Road Traffic Accident in a Modern Era"
  C. Goodchild
• 2019 "A Retinal Rarity"
  B. Woods
• 2018 "Lamina Cribrosa Cell Bioenergetics in Glaucoma:Role of Glycolysis and Glutaminolysis"
  D. Hickey
• 2017 "An Audit of the Quality of Inpatient Referrals Received by the Ophthalmology Consultation Service in a Tertiary Hospital"
  C. Goodchild
• 2016 "Workings of the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital Application for Smart Phones"
  P. Murtagh
• 2015 "Visual and Refractive Outcomes in Patients with High Astigmatism Following Cataract Surgery with Toric Lens Implantation"
  L. Kobaytor
• 2014 "Ocriplasmin in the Treatment of Vitreomacular Traction and Macular Holes"
  L. Hendricks
• 2013 "To Evaluate Endothelial Cell Count Loss after Five Years Following Phakic Intraocular Lens Insertion"
  C. Baily
• 2012 "Childhood Craniopharyngiomas; the Irish Experience"
  L. McAnena
• 2011 "Genomic Medicine and Stargardt Disease "
  D. Armstrong
• 2010 "Prediction of Effective Lens Position Using A Method Independent Of Preoperative Keratometry Readings"
  I. Dooley
• 2009 "A Cellular Model of Fuchs’ Endothelial Dystophy"
  C Kelliher
• 2008 "Age Dependent Rat Retinal Ganglion Cell (Rgc) Susceptibility To Apoptotic Stimuli: Implications For Glaucoma Research "
  M Guerin
• 2007 "Visual Outcomes and Graft Survival following Corneal Transplants: the need for an Irish National Corneal Transplant Registry"
  M Guerin
• 2006 "The Role of Sonic Hedgehog Protein in Ethanol-Induced Ocular Teratogenesis"
  K. Kennelly
• 2005 "The Photopic and Scotopic Visual Thresholds in Eyes with Solar Retinopathy: a Comparison with the Anatomical Damage"
  L O’Toole
• 2004 "Investigation and Management of Epidemic Intraocular Lens Opacifcation"
  R Altaie
• 2003 "Exposure of Photoreceptor Outer Segments to Blue Light Induces a Pro-Angiogentic Response from the Retinal Pigment Epithelium"
  E. Cosgrave
• 2002 "Gene Expression in Diabetic Reinopathy"
  R. Kane
• 2001 "Ocular Toxoplamosis-Pathogenesis Revisited"
  H. McLoone
• 2000 "The Effects Of Topical Anti-Glaucoma Medications On The Ciliary And Optic Nerve Head Arterioles In The Rat Eye"
  S. Byrne

 

• 2023 "Comparing the Safety and Efficacy of Preserflo Microshunt Implantation and Trabeculectomy for Glaucoma: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis "
  A. Khan
• 2022 "Autotaxin: A Fibrosis Target in the Lamina Cribrosa in Glaucoma"
  A. O'Regan
• 2019 "Fundus Fluorescein Angiography in Human Subjects Displays Circadian Variation"
  A. Hopkins