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EW SHOW DAILY 44 ASCRS News Today Saturday, May 6, 2017 hydrate and morphine as anesthetics in the eyes of laboratory animals without success. Freud was fully aware of the pain-killing properties of cocaine, but Dr. Koller recognized its tissue-numbing capabilities and in 1884 demonstrated its potential as a local anesthetic to the medical community. Dr. Koller's findings were a medical breakthrough. Prior to his discovery, performing eye surgery was difficult because of the invol- untary reflex motions of the eye to respond to the slightest stimuli. Up to that point, eye surgery was gen- erally done without any anesthesia because of the danger of general an- esthesia and inhalation techniques then available to the open eye. With local anesthesia, ophthalmic surgery blossomed. Later, cocaine was also used as a local anesthetic in other medical fields such as dentistry. In 1888, Dr. Koller moved to the U.S. and prac- ticed ophthalmology in New York. He received many distinctions in his career, including being honored by the American Ophthalmologi- cal Society as the first recipient of the Lucien Howe Medal in 1922. This award is given to physicians in T wo preeminent ophthalmic leaders will be inducted into the Ophthalmology Hall of Fame at the ASCRS Opening General Session. ASCRS Hall of Fame inducts Drs. Koller and Rao Other ASCRS Hall of Fame members recognition of outstanding achieve- ments in ophthalmology. In 1930, he was also honored by the Medical Association of Vienna. pay, regardless of the complexity of their treatment. Dr. Rao has authored more than 300 papers and book chapters, has served on a number of editorial boards, has given multiple named lectures, and has garnered numerous international awards for his service to eyecare in public health. Dr. Rao trained at the All India Institute for Medical Sciences in New Delhi. He then completed fellowship training at Tufts Univer- sity in Boston and the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York. After completing his training, he practiced ophthalmology in the U.S. and taught at the University of Rochester. He specializes in cornea, eye banking, and corneal transplan- tation. The Ophthalmology Hall of Fame was created by ASCRS in 1999 to honor pioneers such as these with an ongoing celebration of their distinguished careers and contribu- tions. The exhibit will be available for viewing during the meeting at the following hours. It is located in the lobby level, West Lobby. • Saturday, 6:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m. • Sunday, 7:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. • Monday, 7:30 a.m.–4:00 p.m. • Tuesday, 8:00 a.m.–2:30 p.m. EW 1999 • José I. Barraquer, MD (1916–1998) • Ramon Castroviejo, MD (1904–1987) • Stewart Duke-Elder, FRS (1899–1978) • J. Donald Gass, MD (1928–2005) • Charles Kelman, MD (1930–2004) • A. Edward Maumenee, MD (1913–1998) • Marshall Parks, MD (1918–2005) • Harold Ridley, FRS (1907–2001) • Charles Schepens, MD (1912–2006) • Lorenz Zimmerman, MD (1920–2013) 2000 • Ernst Fuchs, MD (1851–1930) • Hans Goldmann, MD (1899–1991) • Albrecht von Graefe, MD (1828–1870) • Robert Machemer, MD • Frank Walsh, MD (1895–1978) 2001 • Cornelius Binkhorst, MD (1912–1995) • David Cogan, MD (1908–1993) • Svyatoslav Fyodorov, MD (1927–2000) • Hermann von Helmholtz, MD (1821– 1894) • Gerd Meyer-Schwickerath, MD (1920–1992) 2002 • Bernard Becker, MD (1920–2013) • Jules Gonin, MD (1870–1935) • Edward W.D. Norton, MD (1922–1994) • Arnall Patz, MD (1920–2010) 2003 • Danièle Aron-Rosa, MD • Joaquin Barraquer, MD • Paul Chandler, MD (1897–1987) • William Hoyt, MD • Norman Jaffe, MD • Jules Stein, MD (1896–1981) 2004 • Claes Dohlman, MD • Jonas Friedenwald, MD (1897–1955) • Govindappa Venkataswamy, MD (1918–2006) 2005 • Jules François, MD (1907–1984) • Gholam Peyman, MD • Robert Sinskey, MD 2006 • Algernon Reese, MD (1896–1981) 2007 • David J. Apple, MD (1941–2011) • Dame Ida Caroline Mann, FRCS (1893–1983) 2008 • Allvar Gullstrand, MD (1862–1930) • Stephen Trokel, MD 2009 • Jacques Daviel, MD (1696–1762) • Endre Balazs, MD 2010 • Judah Folkman, MD (1933–2008) • Alan Bird, MD 2011 • Frederick Verhoeff, MD (1874–1968) • Alfred Sommer, MD 2012 • Louis Braille (1809–1852) • Jack Holladay, MD 2013 • Saiichi Mishima, MD (1927–2005) • Richard Kratz, MD 2014 • Vladimir Filatov, MD (1875–1956) • Theo Seiler, MD 2015 • Gunter von Noorden, MD (1917–1996) 2016 • W. Morton Grant, MD (1915–2001) • Alan Scott, MD Carl Koller, MD (1857–1944) Dr. Koller was an Austrian ophthal- mologist whose name appears in histories of surgery and anesthesiol- ogy. His great accomplishment was to bring cocaine and local anesthesia into the collection of resources of the eye surgeon, an innovation that was adopted by all other surgical specialties. Dr. Koller began his medical career as a surgeon at the Vienna General Hospital and a colleague of Sigmund Freud. He introduced cocaine as a local anesthetic for eye surgery. Prior to this discovery, he had tested solutions such as chloral Gullapalli Rao, MD Dr. Rao founded the LV Prasad Eye Institute in India in 1986 and serves as its chairman and director. The In- stitute is considered to be among the top eye institutes in the world and renowned for its innovative models of eyecare delivery. The institute has played a pivotal role in global eyecare over the past 15 years. The not-for-profit, state-of-the-art hospi- tal treats patients regardless of their ability to pay and has served as a new model for healthcare. The insti- tute has served 15 million people at its main center in Hyderabad along with three tertiary, 10 secondary, and 86 primary centers in a system that spans multiple states in India. Half of the institute's patients do not

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