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ASCRS•ASOA Symposium & Congress, New Orleans 2016
by Liz Hillman EyeWorld Staff Writer
cornea service from 1992–2010, and
Hughes professor of ophthalmology
from 1999–2010.
In 2010, he left Emory to
found the Stulting Research Cen-
ter at the Woolfson Eye Institute
in Atlanta. Dr. Stulting maintains
a full-time practice in corneal and
external disease as well as a research
component. He consults for many
start-up companies to help them
bring promising new technologies
through the regulatory maze and
make innovative new cures available
to citizens of this country.
Dr. Stulting's lecture, "Predict-
ing and Treating Corneal Ectasia,"
is a topic that has interested him
for years, he said. During the early
LASIK clinical trials and when ecta-
sia was first reported as a complica-
tion of the procedure, Dr. Stulting
said his group studied patients ret-
rospectively to identify factors that
D
oyle Stulting, MD, PhD,
Atlanta, has published
more than 200 articles in
peer-reviewed journals, led
a number of clinical trials
in ocular research, and earned nearly
a dozen notable honors and awards.
He will add one more to this list of
accolades at today's ASCRS Opening
General Session.
Dr. Stulting will be honored as
the Binkhorst Medal recipient for
his accomplishments, particularly
in corneal transplantation, cornea
and external disease, and refractive
surgery.
When asked if he ever thought
he'd receive such an honor when he
started off, graduating from Duke
University as a doctor of medicine
and doctor of philosophy in 1976
and 1975, respectively, he simply
said "not really."
"I was truly surprised when I
heard I had received this honor be-
cause I really didn't see myself in the
same league as previous recipients of
the award—I also didn't think I was
that old," he joked.
The Binkhorst Lecture and
Medal was established in 1975 to
honor Cornelius D. Binkhorst, MD,
for his work on intraocular lenses.
Since then, ASCRS has awarded the
medal to others in the field who
have made significant contributions
in anterior segment surgery.
After graduating from Duke
University in the 1970s, summa cum
laude with a BS degree in chemis-
try, followed by an MD and PhD in
microbiology and immunology, Dr.
Stulting completed a residency in
internal medicine at Washington
University in St. Louis and a residen-
cy in ophthalmology at the Bascom
Palmer Eye Institute in Miami.
He then completed a fellow-
ship in cornea and external disease
at Emory University and joined
the teaching staff there. At Emory,
he participated in the first LASIK
clinical trials about the time the first
refractive laser was approved for PRK
by the U.S. Food and Drug Admin-
istration. He was co-director of the
Collaborative Corneal Transplant
Studies, a large clinical trial that
established the effect of tissue typing
on corneal transplant outcomes. He
was director of the fellowship pro-
gram in cornea and external disease
from 1982–1995, director of the
Doyle Stulting, MD, PhD, to present Binkhorst Lecture
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