EW ASCRS•ASOA 2015
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March 2015
ASCRS•ASOA Preview • April 17–21, 2015
by Abbie B. Elliott ASCRS•ASOA Communications Manager
he gave the 2010 Claes H. Dohlman
Conference Address of the Tear
Film & Ocular Surface Society. He
received the 2009 Association for
Research in Vision and Ophthalmol-
ogy (ARVO) Gold Fellow, the 2008
Castroviejo Medal from the Cornea
Society, and the 1999 Alcon Re-
search Institute Award.
Dr. Kinoshita served as ARVO
vice president (2011), ARVO trustee
of the cornea section (2006–2011),
and an ARVO program commit-
tee member of the cornea section
(1996–1999).
He is a 1974 graduate of the
Osaka University Medical School. EW
Contact information
Elliott: aelliott@ascrs.org
A
prominent researcher
who established the
concept of centripetal
movement of corneal epi-
thelium has been selected
to deliver the prestigious Charles
D. Kelman Innovator Lecture at
the 2015 ASCRS•ASOA Symposium
& Congress in San Diego. Shigeru
Kinoshita, MD, PhD, Kyoto, Japan,
will deliver his lecture at 10:00 a.m.
on Monday, April 20 during the
ASCRS Innovators Session. All regis-
tered attendees of the ASCRS•ASOA
Symposium & Congress are invited
to attend the lecture.
Since 1992, Dr. Kinoshita has
served as a professor and chairman
of ophthalmology at the Kyoto
Prefectural University of Medicine.
During the early 1980s, he estab-
lished the concept of centripetal
movement of corneal epithelium.
This groundbreaking work shed new
light on the importance of limbal
epithelium.
Over the past 30 years, Dr.
Kinoshita has focused on the
research and development of new
therapeutic modalities for the
cornea. Following this path, his
research group established the novel
systems of cultivated mucosal epi-
thelial stem cell transplantation and
cultivated corneal endothelial cell
transplantation.
Dr. Kinoshita has been honored
as the Doyne Memorial Lecturer of
the 2011 Oxford Ophthalmologi-
cal Congress in the U.K., the 2010
Meibom Lecturer in Germany, and
Innovator in corneal regenerative medicine
to give 2015 Charles D. Kelman Lecture
Shigeru Kinoshita, MD
