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Roger F. Steinert receives OIS Innovator Award
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NEW ORLEANS — Roger F. Steinert, MD, was presented with the 2016 OIS Innovator Award here at the Ophthalmology Innovation Summit preceding the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery meeting.
“I think many people know that he has been involved in excimer laser research and femtosecond laser research, but he was also involved in a lot of good research in YAG lasers when we first started to incorporate those into our practice,” Richard L. Lindstrom, MD, said in a video tribute. “You are an innovator, someone that I am proud to know, someone whose work I have appreciated and find useful in my own learnings, but more than that you have been a lifelong friend, a special friend and a resilient friend.”
Roger F. Steinert
“It’s a unique skill set to be able to be so good at what you do but be able to translate that. Roger has that unique set,” Jim Mazzo, executive chairman and CEO of AcuFocus, said.
In accepting the award, Steinert gave advice to young ophthalmologists. “Be your own person,” he said.
Steinert received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School and completed his training at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. He has published over 120 peer-reviewed journal articles and has been named America’s Top Doctors and Best Doctors in America in cataract, cornea and refractive surgery. – by Nhu Te
Reference:
Steinert R. OIS Innovator Award. Presented at: Ophthalmology Innovation Summit; May 5, 2016; New Orleans, Louisiana.
Disclosure: Steinert reports he is the chair of ophthalmology at UC Irvine’s School of Medicine and director of the Gavin Herbert Eye Institute.