Robert Osher, MD, receives Lifetime Achievement Award at ESCRS meeting
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BARCELONA, Spain — Receiving the ESCRS Lifetime Achievement Award at the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons meeting came as a surprise to Robert H. Osher, MD.
“At the end of the film awards, Richard Packard called me up on stage, and I have to say, I’m rarely unprepared for a surprise like that. It was completely unexpected,” he told Healio | OSN. “I have received other Lifetime Achievement Awards from the American Academy of Ophthalmology ... and received the Kelman and Innovators Award from ASCRS, but never was I so completely shocked and speechless.”
Osher said he values this award as one of the greatest honors in his career because it
relates to “the privilege of teaching.” In the early years of the ESCRS meeting, Osher was asked by his European colleagues to participate and bring over the video symposium format he had introduced in 1981 in the U.S.
“I have had the privilege of teaching every single year at the ESCRS meeting, and I have watched it become a magnificent meeting, starting from just a few of us to now more than 10,000 ophthalmologists,” he said.
He expressed gratitude toward the many European colleagues and friends who have shared with him the exciting journey of discovering, teaching and learning through years of milestone advances and momentous changes in ophthalmology.
“I particularly thank Richard for the incredible work he’s done as the leader of the video competition and his nine judges who work tirelessly. I know how long it takes to watch every single video — it’s a massive amount of work,” Osher said.
He also thanked Filomena Ribeiro, MD, ESCRS president, “for the incredible job that she did this year.”
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