The Ruben Medal is the highest honor of the Society, and is awarded by vote of the previous recipients to an individual who has made outstanding contributions to the field of contact lens-related research.
The President shall confidentially and in a timely fashion, nominate the previous recipient to serve as Chairperson to canvas the votes of the previous awardees; and the result will be announced at the President’s Gala Dinner during the biennial scientific meeting.
List of awardees:
2022 Mark Willcox
2019 Clayton Radke
2017 Nathan Efron
2015 Deborah Sweeney
2013 Suzanne Fleiszig
2011 Desmond Fonn
2009 Graeme Wilson
2007 Brian Tighe
2005 Dwight Cavanagh
2003 Stephen Klyce
2001 Ken Polse
1999 Richard Hill
1997 Miguel Refojo
1995 Donald Korb
1993 Hikaru Hamano
1990 Otto Wichterle
1988 Irving Fatt
1986 Brien Holden
1984 Montague Ruben