WENDELL HUGHES LECTURE AWARD WINNERS

Hughes Award 2024
2024
Robert Goldberg, MD
How Many Walls in the Orbit? Rethinking the Four-wall Paradigm

Hughes Award 2023
2023
Geoffrey E. Rose DSc, MS, FRCS, FRCOphth
Orbital Fat: Friend or Foe?

Hughes Award 2021
2021
Jeffrey A. Nerad, MD, FACS
Lessons Learned... 35 Years of Oculoplastic Practice

2019
Carol L. Shields, MD
Ocular Melanoma: Marching Forward with Imaging, Nanoparticles, and Immunorevolution

2018
Don O. Kikkawa, MD, FACS
The Evolution and Revolution of Oculofacial Plastic Surgery

2017

John W. Shore, MD, FACS
The Forces That Affect Upper Eyelid Movement, Position, and Contour During Ptosis Surgery 

2016

Robert A. Mazzoli, MD, FACS
Advances in Military Ocular and Combat Casualty Care: Translating Lessons Learned In War To Peacetime

2015 
David Tse, MD, FACS 
Intersection of Science and Patient Care

2014 
Philip Custer, MD
The Spectrum of Prostaglandin Orbitopathy

2013
James Fleming, MD
Orbital Foreign Bodies: Increased Incidence, Improved Analysis, and Improved Management Through Technological Advances

2012
Christine Nelson, MD
From Bench to Bedside: A New Gene for Micropathalmia, Anophthalmia and Coloboma

2011
Ralph Wesley, MD
Arachnid Eyelid Necrosis - A Tale of Terror

2010
Russell Gonnering, MD
Oculofacial Surgery: A New Art, A New Science

2009 
Michael Hawes, MD
The Evolution of Tarsoconjunctival Flaps and Grafts

2008
George Bartley, MD
From the Operating Room to the Board Room: An Oculoplastic Surgeon's Perspective on Health Care in America

2007
John Harrington, MD
A New Insight: Intraoperative Imaging in Orbital Surgery

2006
Gerald Harris, MD, FACS
Oculofacial Reconstruction after Mohs Surgery

2005
James Katowitz, MD
Surgical Management of Congenital Microphthalmia Socket and Adnexal Considerations

2004
John Linberg, MD
Congenital Ptosis and Ocular Development

2003
J. Justin Older, MD
Cosmetic Eyelid Surgery Using Radiowaves

2002
Jonathan Dutton, MD, PhD
The Human Orbit: 50 Million Years in the Making

2001
John Bullock, MD
The Biophysical Basis of Ocular and Orbital Trauma

2000
Richard Dortzbach, MD
Management of Severe Unilateral Ptosis - A Thirty Year Experience

1999
William Stewart, MD
Surgery, Service and Soul

1998
Mark Levine, MD
Ophthalmia Sympathic Evieseration:  Is it a Problem?

1997
Henry Baylis, MD
The Growing Connection between Facial Surgery and Blepharoplasty

1996
Dwight Kulwin, MD
Wound Healing and Treatment of Periocular Burns

1995
Richard Anderson, MD 
Myectomy Surgery for Blepharospasm - Past, Present and Future

1994 
John Wobig, MD
Old Wivese Tales of Lacrimal Diagnoisis and Surgery

1993
Bartley Frueh, MD

A Test to Supersede Levator Function in Evaluating Ptosis

1992
Joseph Flanagan, MD
Tumors of the Lacrimal Sac

1991
Lorenz Zimmerman, MD for the lecture:
The Spectrum of Melanocytic Tumors of the Orbit

1990
Arthur Grove, Jr., MD for the lecture:
Beyond the Hughes Graft – Evolution of Lower Lid Reconstruction by Tarsal Grafting

1989
Robert Waller, MD
Optic Nerve Meningoceles

1988
J.R. Collin, FRCS
Blepharochalasis

1987
A. Jan Berlin, MD 
Essential Blepharospasm Revisited

1986
Frederick Jakobiec, MD 
The Lymphocyte: It’s Ophthalmic Evolution; Problems in Diagnosis and Management

1985
Carl Cordes Johnson, MD
Canthal Abnormalities

1984
Allen Putterman, MD
Muller’s Muscle in the Treatment of Upper Eyelid Retraction and Ptosis

1983 
Clinton McCord, Jr., MD for the lecture:
Orbital Decompression

1982
John Wright, MD 
Orbital Vascular Lesions

1981
David Soll, MD 

1980
Charles Beyer, MD for the lecture:
The Use and Fate of Fascia Lata and Sclera in Ophthalmology

1979
Richard Tenzel, MD
Treatment of Complications of Lid Reconstruction

1978
Robert Wilkins, MD
Wound Healing

1977
John Simonton, MD for the lecture:
Practical Ptosis Surgery

1976
Lester Jones, MD
New Anatomic Concepts in Eyelid Surgery

1975
Orkan George Stasior, MD 
Ophthalmic Plastic Surgery

1974
Crowell Beard, MD
Observations on Treatment of Basal Cell Carcinoma of the Eyelids


1973
Merrill Reeh, MD
Some Aspects of the Pathology of Endocrine Ophthalmopathy

1972
Charles Iliff, MD
Treatment of Frontal Sinusitis with a Combined External and Intranasal Approach

1971
Byron Smith, MD
Oculoplastic Surgery: Recollections, Reflections and Projections

1970
Alston Callahan, MD
The Surgical Correction of Endocrine Malfunction of the Ocular Adnexa