EBAA and Cornea Society present the following Annual awards during the Cornea and Eye Banking Forum.
Best Paper of Session Award
Presented by EBAA and Cornea Society
EBAA and Cornea Society present the Best Paper of Session Award for the best paper during the Cornea and Eye Banking Forum. This award is limited to current fellows, residents and/or medical students and is awarded during the Cornea and Eye Banking Forum. The award includes a plaque and a fifteen-hundred dollar ($1,500) award.
R. Townley Paton Award
Presented by EBAA
The R. Townley Paton Award is EBAA’s highest honor for corneal surgeons. It is presented annually to an ophthalmologist in recognition of his/her outstanding contribution to the EBAA’s development and for exemplifying the precepts of R. Townley Paton, M.D., the father of modern eye banking and the founder of the first eye bank established in the United States. The R. Townley Paton Award recipient delivers the R. Townley Paton Award Lecture during the Cornea and Eye Banking Forum.
2025 R. Townley Paton Award Recipient
Marianne Price, PhD, MBA
Cornea Research Foundation of America
Claes Dohlman Award
Presented by Cornea Society
The Dohlman Award is given to recognize a lifetime of teaching excellence in the field of cornea and external disease and for contributions to the profession. Claes Dohlman, MD, PhD, the inaugural recipient of the Award and for whom it is named, created the first formal corneal fellowship program in the United States at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and the Retina Foundation (now Schepens Eye Research Institute) in Boston. Dr. Dohlman has trained hundreds of fellows, many of whom went on to become full professors. His commitment to teaching and education has enabled many of his students to leave their mark on the field of ophthalmology.
2025 Claes Dohlman Award Recipient
Edward Holland, MD
Cincinnati Eye Institute
Troutman Cornea Prize
Presented by Cornea Society
Dr. Richard Troutman, one of the founders of the Castroviejo Cornea Society and its second president, has graciously established the Troutman Cornea Prize. The award is bestowed annually by the Cornea Society for the paper published in Cornea during the previous year judged to be most outstanding and innovative, and authored by an investigator 40 years of age or younger. The recipient receives an award of $5,000 and the opportunity to present their work at the Cornea and Eye Banking Forum just prior to the AAO meeting.
2025 Troutman Cornea Prize Recipient
Clarissa Ng Yin Ling, MBBS
Singapore National Eye Centre
“Interpretable Machine Learning–Based Risk Score for Predicting 10-Year Corneal Graft Survival After Penetrating Keratoplasty and Deep Anterior Lamellar Keratoplasty in Asian Eyes”
May 2025 Issue, Cornea