Award and Medal Recipients

The International Council of Ophthalmology (ICO) is proud to recognize the following leaders in international ophthalmology who were nominated by their peers and selected by the ICO to receive these well-deserved honors.

Gonin Medal
Duke Elder Medal
Jules Francois Golden Medal
ICO Ophthalmic Pathology Award
Bietti Medal
Tadeusz Krwasicz Gold Medal
Mark Tso Golden Apple Award
GOH Naumann Award
Bruce Spivey Ophthalmic Education Award

Gonin Medal, for outstanding work and research:
Date	Recipient	City/Country
1941	Alfred Vogt	Zurich, Switzerland
1945	Paul Bailliart	Paris, France
1950	Hermenegilde Arruga	Barcelona, Spain
1954	Stewart Duke-Elder	London, England
1958	Alan Woods	Baltimore, USA
1962	Hans Goldman	Bern, Switzerland
1966	Jules François	Gent, Belgium
1970	Gerhard Meyer-Schwickerath	Essen, Germany
1974	David C. Cogan	Cambridge, USA
1978	Norman Henry Ashton	London, England
1982	Alfred Edward Maunamee	Baltimore, USA
1986	Akira Nakajima	Tokyo, Japan
1990	Barrie R. Jones	London, England
1994	Harold L. Ridley	London, England
1998	Robert Machemer	Durham, USA
2002	Gottfried O.H. Naumann	Erlangen, Germany
2006	Alfred Sommer	Baltimore, USA
2010	Alan Bird	London, England
2014	Alice McPherson	Houston, USA
2018	Jean-Jacques De Laey	Ghent, Belgium

International Duke Elder Medal, for the development of international relations and friendship between ophthalmologists:
Date	Recipient	City/Country
1982	Jules François	Gent, Belgium
1986	A. Edward Maumanee	Baltimore, USA
1990	Benjamin Boyd	Panama City, Panama
1994	Edward Norton	Miami, USA
1998	Alfred Sommer	Baltimore, USA
2002	Peter Watson	Cambridge, England
2006	Bradley R. Straatsma	Los Angeles, USA
2010	Mohammad Daud Khan	Peshawar, Pakistan
2014	Richard Abbott	Tiburon, USA
2018	Rubens Belfort, Jr.	Sao Paulo, Brazil

Jules Francois Golden Medal, for ophthalmic work of high scientific quality:
Date	Recipient	City/Country
1986	Pierre Amalric	Albi, France
1990	Saiichi Mishima	Tokyo, Japan
1994	J. Donald M. Gass	Miami, USA
1998	Alan C. Bird	London, England
2002	Bradley R. Straatsma	Los Angeles, USA
2006	Bruce E. Spivey	San Francisco, USA
2010	Gisèle Soubrane	Créteil, France
2014	Peter Watson	Cambridge, England
2016	Clare Gilbert	London, England
2020	Irene H. Maumenee	Chicago, USA

ICO Ophthalmic Pathology Award, for outstanding research in ophthalmic pathology:
Date	Recipient	City/Country
2006	Thaddeus Dryja	Boston, USA
2010	Ursula Schlötzer-Schrehardt	Erlangen, Germany
2014	Mark Tso	Baltimore, USA
2018	Sarah Coupland	Liverpool, England

Bietti Medal, for an ophthalmologist who has contributed most––through history, ethics, and education––to the advancement of ophthalmology:
Date	Recipient	City/Country
2008	Narsing A. Rao	Los Angeles, USA
2012	Rosario Brancato	Milan, Italy
2016	Sir Peng Tee Khaw	London, England
2020	Robert Ritch	New York, USA

Tadeusz Krwasicz Gold Medal, for ophthalmologists who have made advances in diseases of the anterior segment and/or introduction of new technologies as well as having advanced international relationships among ophthalmologists:
Date	Recipient	City/Country
2008	Douglas R. Anderson	Miami, USA
2012	Alan C. Bird	London, England
2016	Marie-José Tassignon	Edegem, Belgium
2020	David F. Chang	Los Altos, USA

ICO Mark Tso Golden Apple Award, for demonstrated innovation or exceptional achievements in ophthalmic education:
Date	Recipient	City/Country
2006	SS Badrinath	India
2007	Xiao-xin Li	China
2008	Ronald Lam Soon Yeoh	Singapore
2009	Selvarajah Sivaguru	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2010	Ian Constable	Perth, Australia
2011	Dennis Lam	Hong Kong, China
2012	Mark O.M. Tso	Baltimore, USA
2013	Peter McCluskey	Sydney, Australia
2013	Gabriel van Rij	Netherlands
2013	Steve Ryan	Los Angeles, USA
2014	Charles McGhee	Auckland, New Zealand
2015	Frank Martin	Sydney, Australia
2015	Zdenek J. Gregor	Barbican, London
2015	Peter A. Quiros	Pasadena, USA
2016	Richard Abbott	San Francisco, USA
2016	Kanxing Zhao	Tianjin, China
2017	Lin-chung Woung	Chinese Taipei
2017	Wagih Aclimandos	London, England
2017	Rafael Sánchez Fontán	Mexico City, Mexico
2019	Ke Yao	Zhejiang, China
2019	Rubens Belfort, Jr.	São Paulo, Brazil
2019	Marko Hawlina	Ljubljana, Slovenia
2019	Olubola Adekunle Hassan	Nigeria

GOH Naumann Award for Leadership in Global Eye Care:
Date	Recipient	City/Country
2008	Benedictus G.K. Ajayi	Ibadan, Nigeria
2009	Francisco Contreras	Lima, Peru
2010	Adel Al Rushood	Saudi Arabia
2011	Frank Billson	Sydney, Australia
2012	Shigeaki Ohno	Sapporo, Japan
2013	Nag Rao	Hyderabad, India
2014	Ahmed Trabelsi	Tunis, Tunisia
2018	Abdulaziz AlRajhi	Saudi Arabia

Bruce Spivey Ophthalmic Education Award:
Date	Recipient	City/Country
2016	David Taylor	London, England
2020	Bruce E. Spivey	San Francisco, USA