In recognition of his prominent role advancing cataract and
refractive surgery in Sweden and Europe, incoming ASCRS President David Chang
MD welcomed Bo T Philipson MD PhD, Stockholm, Sweden, as an honored guest at
this year’s ASCRS Symposium.
“Dr Philipson also played a key role in development of the
first OVD as well as heparin-coated IOLs, and the Technis diffractive multifocal
IOL,” Dr Chang said.
Dr Chang also noted Dr Philipson’s service as a leader, founder
and programme chair of the ESCRS, his extensive lecturing and surgery in more
than 20 countries, his leadership of the ophthalmology department at Sweden’s
prestigious Karolinska Institute and his founding of the Ögonklinik, now
Sweden’s largest private eye clinic. “He has educated a generation of Swedish
cataract surgeons and led the efforts to adopt phaco emulsification,
intraocular lens implantation and corneal refractive surgery in his home
country.”
Accepting the honor, Dr Philipson expressed his gratitude
for the opportunities he had to improve ocular surgery and those who supported
his efforts. “I am very fortunate to be of the group to have experienced the
evolution of cataract and refractive surgery from intracapsular surgery to the
modern very advanced surgery. It’s been very fascinating. This shift of
surgical technique and the improvement of outcome have been made possible by
the excellent teaching facilities that ASCRS and ESCRS have provided to us.”
Noting that he has attended almost all ESCRS and many ASCRS
programs over the years, Dr Philipson thanked several American colleagues with
whom he has studied and worked over the years, and whose ideas he shared in
Europe. “Bob Sinskey was really my first mentor, and I visited him many, many
times. Howard Fine was a fantastic teacher, and I had the possibility to work
with and learn from Doug Koch, Steve Obstbaum and Dick Lindstrom. Jack Holladay
and Jay McDonald, and I am very sorry we miss David Apple and Charlie Kelman.
They taught us a lot.”
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