About the Honor Awards Program

Recognizing ASRS Annual Meeting participation

The Honor Points Program recognizes ASRS members for their time and contributions to the scientific programs of the Annual Meeting. The participation categories include:

  • Presentations
  • Symposium moderators
  • Panel discussion leaders and participants
  • Instructional course faculty
  • Film Festival entries
  • Peer reviewer
  • Meeting reporter

Members are awarded one point for each contribution as an author (or co-author), panelist, moderator, and/or course faculty member. Members who have earned 10 or more points are eligible to receive an Honor Award. Members who have earned 25 or more points are eligible to receive a Senior Honor Award to recognize those ASRS members who have demonstrated significant continued participation in the Annual Meetings. The new Presidential Award is bestowed on the highest achievers who have amassed at least 60 points.

Congratulations to the 2025 ASRS Honor Award Recipients!

ASRS Presidential Awardees
Pramod S. Bhende, MS
Nimesh A. Patel, MD, FASRS
Dante J. Pieramici, MD, FASRS
Aleksandra V. Rachitskaya, MD, FASRS
Lejla Vajzovic, MD, FASRS
David T.W. Wong, MD, FRCSC, DRCPSC, FASRS

ASRS Senior Honor Awardees
Thomas M. Aaberg Jr, MD
David R.P. Almeida, MD, MBA, PhD, DABO, FRCSC, FASRS
Mark R. Barakat, MD, FASRS
Durga Borkar, MD, MMCi, FASRS
Jorge A. Fortun, MD
Theodore Leng, MD, MS, FASRS
Emmanouil Mavrikakis, MD, PhD, FASRS
Gustavo Barreto de Melo, MD, PhD, FASRS
Raja Rami P. Reddy, MD, FRCS, FASRS
Veeral S. Sheth, MD, MBA, FACS, FASRS
James F. Vander, MD

ASRS Honor Awardees
Hasenin Al-khersan, MD
Michael M. Altaweel, MD, FASRS
Hossein Ameri, MD, PhD, FRCSI, MRCOphth, FASRS
Michael Ammar, MD
Parnian Arjmand, MD, MSc, FRCSC, DABO
Benjamin Bakall, MD, PhD, FASRS
Touka Banaee, MD
Prashant K. Bawankule, MS
Barton L. Blackorby, MD
Margaret A. Chang, MD, MS, FASRS
Eric Chen, MD
Katarzyna M. Chwiejczak, MD, FEBO
Brian K. Do, MD, FASRS
Kenneth C. Fan, MD, MBA
Jordan M. Graff, MD, FACS
Luis J. Haddock, MD
Majda Hadziahmetovic, MD
Yi-Ting Hsieh, MD, FASRS
Chirag D. Jhaveri, MD, FASRS
Kyle D. Kovacs, MD
Jayant Kumar, MBBS, MS, DNB, MNAMS, FICO, FVRS
Joshua D. Levinson, MD
Danny A. Mammo, MD
Isabela Martins Melo, MD
Thirumalesh Mochi Basavaraj, MD
Bobeck S. Modjtahedi, MD, FASRS
Shilpi H. Narnaware, ICO (Retina), FAICO (Vitreo-Retina)
Sawsan R. Nowilaty, MD, FASRS
Sally S. Ong, MD
Anton Orlin, MD
Pradeep S. Prasad, MD, MBA, FASRS
Chetan Rao, MS
Kasra Rezaei, MD, FASRS
Osama Sabbagh, MD
Min Sagong, MD, PhD
Kathleen R. Schildroth, MD
Veer Singh, MS, FVRS, FMRF, FICO (Retina)
Rebecca Soares, MD
Peter H. Tang, MD, PhD
Shishir Verghese, MS, FVRS, FAICO (Retina)
Karen M. Wai, MD
Angeline L. Wang, MD, FASRS
Malek Yassine, MD
Zhaotian Zhang, MD