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April 20, 2013
by Vanessa Caceres EyeWorld Contributing Writer and Erin L. Boyle EyeWorld Senior Staff Writer
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ustained release drug
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though such systems still
are four or five years away, predicted
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Harold A. Stein, MD
Jae Ho Kim, MD
by Cindy Sebrell ASCRS•ASOA Director of Public Affairs
Honored Guests
welcomed at ASCRS
Opening General Session
J
ae Ho Kim, MD, and
Harold A. Stein, MD, are
the Honored Guests at this
year's ASCRS Symposium.
At today's Opening General Ses-
sion, they will be honored for their
contributions to ophthalmology.
Dr. Kim is a leading ophthal-
mologist based in Seoul, Korea.
He earned his medical degree at
Catholic University of Korea and
his PhD from Catholic University,
where he went on to become an as-
sistant professor of ophthalmology.
In 1970, he was named a National
Institutes of Health International
Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Wilmer
Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins Uni-
versity Hospital, Baltimore. By 1978,
he was a full professor of ophthal-
mology at the University of Tokyo.
Since then, he has served in many
leadership roles at the Catholic
University of Korea, including direc-
tor of the Clinical Research Institute,
chairman of the Department of
Ophthalmology, and dean of the
Graduate School. In 1994, Dr. Kim
founded the Cernsan Foundation for
Eye Research (CFER).
In recent years, Dr. Kim has
served as director of the 21C Eye
Hospital of the Seoul Paik Hospital
of Inje University and the Myung-
Dong St. Mary's Eye Clinic Center in
Seoul. During his long career, he has
held leadership positions in many
organizations, including the Korean
Ophthalmological Society, the
Society of External Eye Diseases, and
the Keratoplasty Association. He has
also written more than 200 aca-
demic papers and 10 professional
books. Today, he is professor emeri-
tus at the Catholic University of
Korea and chairman of CFER.
Dr. Stein is a distinguished
professor of ophthalmology at the
University of Toronto. He earned his
medical degree from the University
of Toronto, completed his residency
in ophthalmology at the Mayo
Clinic in Rochester, Minn., and
earned his FRCSC from the Royal
College of Surgeons, Ottawa.
In the 1960s, Dr. Stein founded
the first Ophthalmic Assistant Asso-
ciation in North America, organized
Iqbal "Ike" Ahmed, MD, Toronto,
at Friday's ASCRS Glaucoma Day
morning sessions.
Medication use and adherence
are major reasons why alternate
drug delivery systems could work
well in glaucoma patients, he said.
Thomas W. Samuelson, MD, presents the Stephen A. Obstbaum, MD, Honored
Lecture award to Garry P. Condon, MD.
