April 26, 2025
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Key takeaways:
- Richard L. Lindstrom, MD, was inducted into the ASCRS Ophthalmology Corridor of Fame.
- Edward J. Holland, MD, and Thomas W. Samuelson, MD, offered the award to Lindstrom.
LOS ANGELES — Healio | OSN Chief Medical Editor Richard L. Lindstrom, MD, was inducted into the ASCRS Ophthalmology Corridor of Fame on the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgical procedure assembly.
ASCRS Corridor of Fame Chair Edward J. Holland, MD, offered Lindstrom with the award alongside Healio | OSN Glaucoma Part Editor Thomas W. Samuelson, MD.
“I can consider no yet one more worthy than this yr’s corridor of fame inductee,” Holland stated. “Dr. Richard Lindstrom has made super contributions in so many areas of ophthalmology as a researcher, surgeon, investigator, instructor, inventor, mentor and chief. He has profoundly affected a era of ophthalmology in a number of subspecialties.”
Lindstrom’s profession achievements embrace publishing greater than 400 papers in peer-reviewed journals, presenting greater than 40 named lectures, serving as Healio | OSN’s Chief Medical Editor since 1996 and holding 45 patents associated to ophthalmology.
“Dr. Lindstrom modified the paradigm for business and clinician interplay, breaking that long-held bias that this exercise was in some way mistaken or unethical,” Holland stated. “He confirmed us the way in which for significant collaboration between clinicians and corporations that resulted in higher medicine, higher gadgets and higher outcomes for our sufferers.”
Earlier ASCRS Ophthalmology Corridor of Fame inductees embrace Peter Choyce, BSc, MBBS, MS, FRCS, FRCOphth, in 2024, Marguerite B. McDonald, MD, in 2023, and Roger F. Steinert, MD, in 2022.
“For the previous 47 years, ASCRS has been my guiding mild in observe administration, affected person care and interplay in a constructive manner with business,” Lindstrom stated. “Most significantly, it’s been an incredible supply of extraordinary friendships.”
Lindstrom’s columns and contributions to Healio | OSN may be discovered right here.
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Lindstrom RL, et al. ASCRS Ophthalmology Corridor of Fame ceremony. Introduced at: American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgical procedure assembly; April 25-28, 2025; Los Angeles.
Disclosures:
Holland and Lindstrom report no related monetary disclosures.
