Professor Harminder S. Dua is Awarded the Prestigious Rayner Medal Lecture for 2014.

The 2014 Rayner Medal Lecture was presented by Professor Harminder Dua at the Annual Meeting of the United Kingdom and Ireland Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons (UKISCRS).

Following his lecture: ‘the discovery of a new layer of the cornea; a pre-Descemet’s layer (Dua’s layer)’, Professor Dua was presented with the medal by Martin Jamieson, Chief Executive Officer at Rayner Intraocular Lenses Limited, and UKISCRS President Mr David O’Brart during the UKISCRS conference in London on September 14, 2014.

The Rayner Medal Lecture is an important link between Rayner and UKISCRS; in 1978 the UK Intraocular Implant Society (UKIIS) - the forerunner to the UKISCRS - invited Rayner to sponsor a special lecture to be given every two years at a Society meeting. The Rayner Medal Lecture is one of three prestigious Medal Lectures: the Choyce Medal Lecture and Pearce Medal Lecture, which throughout the years have been presented by many of the world’s leading authorities on intraocular lenses and other aspects of cataract and refractive surgery.

Harminder Dua, MBBS, DO, DO(Lond), MS, MNAMS, FRCS, FRCOphth, FEBO, FRCP(Ed), MD, PhD.
Professor Harminder Singh Dua is the Chair and Professor of Ophthalmology, University of Nottingham and is the Head of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, School of Clinical Neuroscience. He is currently Chairman of the Clinical Council for Eye Health Commissioning, England; President of the European Association for Vision and Eye Research (EVER) Foundation (EVERf) and Civilian consultant advisor to the Royal Air Force.

Professor Dua has delivered 30 eponymous lectures and has invitations to a further 6 award lectures over the ensuing 6 months. He has over 275 research publications, 20 published letters and 14 book chapters to his credit. Professor Dua was one of five ophthalmologists named in the Britain’s Top Doctors list as published by the Times Newspaper In November 2010. He recently received the 2013 Rotary Foundation Global Alumni Service to Humanity Award; the highest honour the Foundation gives to its alumni, and in 2014 the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh awarded Professor Dua with an honorary Fellowship of the College.