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30 | EYEWORLD DAILY NEWS | JULY 24, 2021 ASCRS ANNUAL MEETING DAILY NEWS cataract extraction for nearly 20 years. Dr. Krwawicz also pioneered techniques such as intracorne- al lamellar keratoplasty with a lyophilized graft, stromectomia lamellaris for myopia (a LASIK precursor), and he created curved allogenic intracorneal implants. His other ophthalmic interests included immunology, histology, histochemistry, and biochemistry of ocular tissue, and other ar- eas of corneal and experimental surgery. Jerry Shields, MD Dr. Shields, emer- itus director of the Ocular On- cology Service at Wills Eye Hospital and professor of ophthalmology at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is well-known for his pioneering work in ocular oncology. Dr. Shields attended the Uni- versity of Michigan for medical school and completed an intern- ship at Denver General Hospital in Colorado. From there, he served as a battalion surgeon with the U.S. Marine Corps in Vietnam for a year, followed by a year with the U.S. Navy in Europe. Dr. Shields completed his residency at Wills Eye Hospital and did fellow- ships in ophthalmic pathology at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington, D.C., and retinal surgery at Wills Eye Hospital. Dr. Shields went on to estab- lish the Ocular Oncology Service at Wills Eye Hospital in 1974, and for more than 40 years he has attended to patients with ocular cancers, pioneering new diagnos- tic and treatment methods during this time. Dr. Shields is past president of the International Society of Ocular Oncology, a society that he helped organize, and past pres- ident of the Macula Society and the Ophthalmic Club of Philadel- phia. He has received recognition from numerous societies, includ- ing the National Physician of the Year Award for Clinical Excellence by Castle Connolly and the Lau- reate Recognition Award from the American Academy of Ophthal- mology. Dr. Shields has authored and co-authored more than 1,300 peer-reviewed journal articles, several hundred book chapters, and more than a dozen textbooks. He has also served on the edi- torial boards for many scientific journals. He has traveled around the world lecturing at thousands of medical meetings. Hall of Fame inductees: Drs. Krwawicz and Shields A SCRS is inducting the late Tadeusz Krwawicz, MD, PhD (1910–1988), and Jerry Shields, MD, into its Hall of Fame at the Opening General Session. The ASCRS Hall of Fame was created in 1999 to recognize pioneers in ophthal- mology. The Hall of Fame can be viewed this year as part of the ASCRS Education Hub. Tadeusz Krwawicz, MD, PhD (1910–1988) Dr. Krwawicz was born in Ukraine and began his medical studies at the University of Lviv in 1932. After graduating, he worked in the Department of Histology and later became an assistant in the Ophthalmology Clinic. In World War II, Dr. Krwawicz joined the 2nd Polish Army. He was first assigned to the 7th Garrison Hospital and became the head of ophthalmology at the 2nd Regional Hospital in Lublin, Poland. Dr. Krwawicz is known for his work in cryosurgery, developing a cryoextractor for cataracts, which reduced several complications from the procedure at the time. It became the routine method for

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