Troutman Cornea Prize for Young Clinician Investigators

Nexus Hospitals would like to congratulate corneal surgeon Dr Greg Moloney, who operates with us at Crows Nest Day Hospital and Bondi Junction Private Hospital. Greg was recently awarded the prestigious Troutman Cornea Prize for Young Clinician Investigators. The award is bestowed annually by the US-based Cornea Society for the paper judged the most outstanding and innovative in the journal ‘Cornea’, authored by an investigator 40 years of age or younger. The paper reported on a new technique for treating the corneal disease Fuch’s endothelial dystrophy, alleviating the need for grafting of donor eye tissue.

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