Speakers
The ANZGS Congress features a number of prestigious lectures.
Lowe Lecturer: Professor Tin Aung
Chief Executive Officer and Senior Consultant, Glaucoma Department, Singapore National Eye Centre; Academic Chair, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Academic and Professor of Ophthalmology, Duke-NUS Medical School; Principal Investigator and Chairman of Board, Singapore Eye Research Institute
Gillies Lecturer: Professor Michael Coote MB BS FRANZCO GAICD
University of Melbourne – Clinical Professor, Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital – Senior Glaucoma Consultant, Centre for Eye Research Australia – Lead – Glaucoma Surgery Research, International Society for Glaucoma Surgery – Secretary General
Basic Science Lecturer: Professor Pete Williams
Professor and Research Lead, Centre for Eye Research Australia, Melbourne, Australia
History of the Lowe, Gillies & ACB Molteno Lectures
The Ronald Lowe Medal
RONALD FRANCIS LOWE (1913-1998) had a fascinating and rewarding career extending through pharmacy, medicine, the army, ophthalmology, tourism, administration and medical history.
Previous Winners
1993 Dunbar Hoskins
1994 Bernard Schwarz
1995 Paul Lichter
1996 Joseph Caprioli
1997 Irvine Pollock
1998 Gunter Kriegelstein
1999 Don Minckler
2000 Robert Ritch
2001 Erik Greve
2003 Robert Fechtner
2004 Wendy Franks
2005 Ted Garway-Heath
2006 Anne Coleman
2007 Paul Foster
2008 Christopher Girkin
2010 Felipe Medeiros
2012 Stefano Gandolfi
2013 Paul Chew
2014 Hanspeter Killer
2015 Arthur Sit
2016 George Spaeth
2017 Keith Martin
2018 John Salmon
2019 n/a – World Glaucoma Congress held
2020 Anthony Khawaja
2021 Jeffrey Goldberg
2022 Anders Heijl
2023 Eve Higginbotham
2024 Linda Zangwill
2025 Norbert Pfeiffer
2026 Miriam Kolko
The W.E. Gillies Medal
Dr William (Bill) Elliott Gillies commenced ophthalmology when he started as a Resident Medical Officer at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital in 1952. He obtained the Diploma
of Ophthalmology of The University of Melbourne in 1953, and after some years at Moorfields Glaucoma Clinic he returned to Melbourne in 1958.
Previous Winners
2006 Jonathon Crowston
2007 Jaimie Craig
2008 David Mackey
2010 Tony Molteno
2011 Ivan Goldberg
2012 Anne Brooks
2013 Catherine Green
2014 William Morgan
2015 Mark Loane
2016 Helen Danesh- Meyer
2017 Stuart Graham
2018 Paul Healey
2019 Ravi Thomas
2020 Alex Hewitt
2021 Robert Casson
2022 Ridia Lim
2023 Jesse Gale
2024 Graham Lee
2025 Keith Martin
2026 Ashish Agar
The Anthony C.B. Molteno Medal
Professor Anthony Molteno was possibly the most innovative-and certainly one of the most intriguing-glaucoma surgeons of all-time. An individual of rare talent and originality, best known for inventing the world’s first glaucoma drainage valve (“the Molteno implant”), Molteno was a pioneering clinician-scientist and fascinating character.
Previous Winners
2025 Steven Tingay
2026 Graeme Spencer