Distinguished Service Award Recipients 

The Distinguished Service Award is the TOA's highest honor. It is a peer recognition award given to those who have exhibited a lifelong dedication to ophthalmology patients and to the profession. 

1994  - R. Larry Brenner, MD
1995  - Otto Lippmann, MD
1996  - Richard S. Ruiz, MD
1997  - Whitney G. Sampson, MD
1998  - David G. Shulman, MD
1999  - John David Jones, MD
2000  - Alan C. Baum, MD
2001  - Robert L. Rock, MD
2002  - Lee S. Anderson, MD
2003  - Malcolm L. Mazow, MD
2004  - Louis Daily, MD
2005  - Sam Stone, Jr., JD
2006  - John M. Haley, MD
2007  - Lyle S. Thorstenson, MD
2008  - Thomas E. Duncan, MD
2009  - Sue Ellen Young, MD
2010 -  Robert M. Tenery, MD
2011  - Bernard A. Milstein, MD
2012  - John R. Fish, MD
2013  - James Merritt, MD
2014  - Michael S. Duncan
2015 - Michelle A. Berger, MD
2016 - James P. McCulley, MD, FRCOphth(UK), FACS
2017 - Jack Pierce, MD
2018 - Dawn C. Buckingham, MD