About the Honor Awards Program

Recognizing ASRS Annual Meeting participation

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

  • Presentations (author or co-author)
  • Symposium moderators
  • Panel discussion leaders and participants
  • Film Festival entries and judges
  • Peer reviewer
  • Meeting reporter

ASRS members are awarded one honor point for each contribution listed above. 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 who have demonstrated significant continued participation in the Annual Meetings. The Presidential Honor Award is bestowed on the highest achievers who have amassed at least 60 points.

Congratulations to the 2026 ASRS Honor Award Recipients!

ASRS Presidential Honor Awardees

Maria H. Berrocal, MD, FASRS
John B. Miller, MD
Ehsan Rahimy, MD, FASRS
Ahmed Sallam, MD, PhD, FRCOphth, FASRS
Steven Yeh, MD, FASRS

ASRS Senior Honor Awardees

Narciso F. Atienza, MD, MBA, FPCS, FPAO, FASRS
Prashant K. Bawankule, MS
Allen Chiang, MD, FASRS
Avni P. Finn, MD, MBA, FASRS
Pranshu Goel, MBBS, MS, DNB, FICO
Roger A. Goldberg, MD, MBA, FASRS
Vivienne S. Hau, MD, PhD, FASRS
Atsushi Hayashi, MD, FASRS
Deeba Husain, MD, FASRS
Brian C. Joondeph, MD, MPS, FACS
Bibhuti P. Kashyap, MD, FACS, FRCSEd(UK), FRCS(Glasgow, UK), FICO, FAICO(Retina)
Jayant Kumar, MBBS, MS, DNB, MNAMS, FICO, FVRS
Michael M. Lai, MD, PhD, FASRS
Joan W. Miller, MD
Shilpi H. Narnaware, ICO(Retina), FAICO(Vitreo-Retina)
Yusuke Oshima, MD, PhD
Geovanni J. Rios, MD, PhD
Amy C. Schefler, MD, FACS, FASRS
Adrienne W. Scott, MD, FASRS
Veer Singh, MS, FVRS, FMRF, FICO(Retina)
Bradley T. Smith, MD, FASRS
Shishir Verghese, MS, FVRS, FAICO(Retina)
David Xu, MD

ASRS Honor Awardees

Abdullah Abou-Samra, MD
Marib I. Akanda, MD
Mohamed AlBahiti, MBBS, FRCSC
Konstantin Astafurov, MD, PhD
Muhammad Amer Awan, MD, FRCSEd, FRCOphth, FRCS (Glasgow), FACS, FASRS
Dr Poornachandra Balughatta, MS, FVRS
Yoreh Barak, MD
Peter J. Belin, MD
Robert B. Bhisitkul, MD, PhD
Yodpong Chantarasorn, MD
Jordan D. Deaner, MD
Avik Dey Sarkar, MS, FVRS, FAICO(VR)
Scott M. Friedman, MD
Robert Gizicki, MD, FRCSC, DABO
Juan Carlos Gutierrez, MD, FASRS
Michael J. Heiferman, MD
Odette M. Houghton, MD, FASRS
Nieraj Jain, MD, FASRS
Michael Javaheri, MD, MSc, FASRS
Grant A. Justin, MD
Talia R. Kaden, MD, FASRS
Birendra Prasad Kashyap, MBBS, MS
Aayesha Khanum, MBBS, DNB
Keyvan Koushan, MD, FRCSC, FASRS
Ines Lains, MD, PhD
Ronnie S. Manaysay, MD, FASRS
Sonia Mehta, MD
David G. Miller, MD
Kapil Mishra, MD
Pallavi Priya, MS
Polly A. Quiram, MD, PhD
David A. Reichstein, MD, FASRS
Elizabeth Rossin, MD, PhD
Hani Salehi-Had, MD, FASRS
Ananth Sastry, MD
Eric W. Schneider, MD, FASRS
Ahmed Shakarchi, MD, MPH
Abhinav Sinha, MBBS, DNB
Warren M. Sobol, MD, FASRS
Priya Sharma Vakharia, MD, FASRS
Robert C. Wang, MD, FASRS
Patrick Dewey Williams, MD, FASRS
Jee Myung Yang, MD, PhD
Seung-Young Yu, MD
Sidra Zafar, MD