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About Jan Worst

Title: Professor Doctor

Born: March 30, 1928 in Arnhem, The Netherlands

Royal honour: Appointed Officer of the Order of Oranje Nassau by the Queen of the Netherlands in April 1994

Medical qualifications:

•Studied at Medical college of Utrecht

•Title: Medical Doctor, granted March 24, 1955

•Postgraduate qualification in ophthalmology at University Eye Hospital Groningen

•Registered as ophthalmologist 7-03-1960

•Doctor in Ophthalmology, “cum laude” granted November 30, 1966 on his thesis: “Pathogenesis of Congenital Glaucoma”.

1955-1959

University Eye Hospital Groningen as Resident

1959-1968

University Eye Hospital Groningen as “Chef de Clinique”, first ophthalmologist, assistant professor.

1968 - 2000

Ophthalmic Surgeon in Refaja Hospital Stadskanaal

1968 - today  

Senior Ophthalmologist in Ophthalmological Medical Center  (group of five practising ophthalmologists) and Outpatient  surgeon in private clinic, Groningen

1990 - 1991

Boerhaave Professorship, University of Leiden, Ophthalmology Department (Anatomy and Physiology of the Vitreous Body)

Guest surgery

From 1966 till today invited for “Guest Surgery” in various countries: 

France

Foundation Ophtalmologique Adolphe de Rothschild, Paris

University Eye Hospital, Nancy

Dr. Amar’s Hospital, Cannes

Switzerland

Dr. Bangerter’s Clinic, St. Gallen

Germany

University Eye Hospital, Giessen

Italy

Hospital Desenzano

University Eye Clinic, Bologna

Eye Hospital, Avelino

University of Parma

Brasil

Campinas, Sao Paulo

England

Charing Cross Hospital, London

University Eye Clinic, Newcastle upon Tyne

Pakistan

Christian Hospital, Taxila

U.S.A

University of Southern California Medical Centre, Los Angeles

Nepal

Kathmandu

Nepalganj

India

Bombay

Spain

Barcelona

Tunesia

Tunis

Russia

Intersectoral Research + Technology Complex, “Eye Micro Surgery”, Moscow

Egypt

As-Salam, International Hospital Cairo   

Inventions

Inventor of a number of intraocular lens designs and ophthalmological instruments.

Publications

•Author of a number of scientific publications on the subject of innovations of instrumentation, of surgical techniques and clinical concepts in ophthalmology

•Author of the book: “Cisternal Anatomy of the Vitreous”. Publicated in 1995 by Kugler Publications, New York

1. •Author of a 3-D book: “The Vitreous Body in 3-D” Publicated in 2001 by the Jan Worst Research Group (JWRG), The Netherlands
   

Instructional courses

•Since 1968 Course Director for instructional courses on the subject of Intraocular Lens Implantation for aphakia and refractive surgery. (Artisan Intra Ocular Lens)

Awards

•Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brasil 1971 Brasilian Congress of Ophthalmology

•Binkhorst Award, 1976 American Intra Ocular Implant Society

•Association Française des Implants Intraoculaires, 1979 1e festival du film sur l’implantation intraoculaire, Cannes.

•Ruth Gray Lecture Award, 1981

•Canadian Implant Association, 1983 Temoignage d’Honneur

•Snellen Penning (medal), 1983 Utrecht, Holland

•Jorn Boberg-Ans Award, 1985 Film Festival, Cannes

•Rayner Medal Lecture, 1986 United Kingdom Intraocular Implant Society

•American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (ASCRS), 1987. Film Festival, U.S.A

•Honorary member Nepalese Society of Ophthalmology, 1989

•The Leslie Drews Lecture, 1990 Bethesda Eye Institute, U.S.A

•Jan G.F. Worst Lectureship, 1999 (to be held yearly by an IIIC-member)

•Binkhorst Lecture, 2000 European Society of Cataract Refractive Surgery (ESCRS) Brussels, Belgium

1. •Wubbo Ockels Award, 2002  Groningen, The Netherlands. An award for people who made an important contribution to science.
   

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