Lowell A. Gess, MD, selected for 2020 ASCRS Foundation Chang Humanitarian Award

When you ask Lowell A. Gess, MD, for interesting stories from his career, make sure to be seated in a comfortable chair. The anecdotes roll by so quickly it can be hard to catch them all. Dr. Gess once paused performing cataract surgery to deliver a baby, was one of the earliest adopters of the IOL, his medical education and training took more than 25 years to complete because he couldn’t stop charitable work in Sierra Leone and Nigeria, and one of his earliest surgeries involved saving the life of a man who was injured by a spear in a wedding feast gone awry.

Read the full story at the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery