15th Biannual IIIC Meeting & Retreat 2026

    IIIC Medal Lecture, Dinner and Annual Membership Meeting during ESCRS
Sunday, September 13, 2026 in London, UK

- More information, Medal Lecture and Photo Gallery
- IIIC Medal Lecture by Kevin M Miller: "It Took Me a Long Time to Figure This Out“  

    IIIC Sunset Dinner Cruise during APACRS
Saturday, June 6, 2026 in Pattaya, Thailand

- More information and Photo Gallery

    2026 Worst Medal Lectureship and Dinner during ASCRS
April 12, 2026 in Washington DC, USA

- More information and Photo Gallery

    2025 IIIC Medal Lecture, Dinner and Annual Membership Meeting
September 14, 2025 in Copenhagen, Denmark

- More information and Photo Gallery

    IIIC Dinner at APACRS 2025
August 23, 2025 in Ahmedabad, India

- More information and Photo Gallery

    2025 Worst Medal Lectureship and Dinner during ASCRS
April 27, 2025 in Los Angeles, CA

- More information
- Worst Medal Lecture by David Spalton: "Life behind the lens"

    2024 IIIC Medal Lecture, Dinner and Annual Membership Meeting
Sunday, September 8, 2024 in Barcelona, Spain

- More information and Photo gallery
- IIIC Medal Lecture by Michael Lawless: "Ten things that might make you a better cataract surgeon“  

    14th Biannual IIIC Meeting & Retreat, USA
August 20-23, 2024: Pre-meeting in Kent, Connecticut
August 23-28, 2024: Scientific Meeting in New York, New York

- Photo Galleries
- Invitation
- Scientific Program (PDF)
- Social Program (PDF)

    IIIC at APACRS 2024
Intercontinental Century City Hotel, Chendgu, China
Friday, May 31 2024 and Saturday, June 1 2024

Second joined scientific symposium during APACRS
Leica-APACRS Event
Second IIIC dinner during APACRS

- More information and Photo gallery

    2024 Worst Medal Lectureship and Dinner during ASCRS
Sunday, April 7, 2024 in Boston, MA

- More information
- Lecture by Marguerite McDonald: "A Tale of Discovery: Endophthalmitis"

    2022 IIIC Medal Lecture and Dinner, Annual Membership Meeting

– IIIC Medal lecture by Graham Barrett: "34 years of IIIC - Innovation, Inspiration and Friendship!“
– Information and Photo Gallery

    13th Biannual IIIC Meeting & Retreat, Germany
Sunday, July 24 - Sunday, July 31, 2022
Frankfurt and Tegernsee / Germany

    2022 Jan Worst Medal Lectureship and Dinner
Sunday, April 24, 2022 in Washington, DC

– Jan Worst Medal lecture by Rudy Nuijts: "And then everything changed"
– Information and Photo Gallery

    IIIC Medal Dinner and Annual Membership Meeting
Sunday, October 10, 2021 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands

– IIIC Medal lecture by Burkhard Dick: “Lessons learned”
– Information and Photo Gallery

    G. F. Jan Worst Medal Lectureship and Dinner
Sunday, July 25, 2021 in Las Vegas, NV / USA

– Jan Worst Medal lecture by Tsutomu Hara: “Capsular Surgery”
    View the presentation as MP4 or PowerPointShow (Video, 20 min)
– Information and Photo Gallery

IIIC Annual Membership Meeting
Sunday, October 4, 2020 in Amsterdam
- VIRTUAL ONLY DUE TO COVID-19 -

G. F. Jan Worst Medal Lectureship and Dinner
Planned for Sunday, May 17, 2020 in Boston
- CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 -

    IIIC Medal Dinner and Annual Membership Meeting
Sunday, September 15, 2019
Paris, France

– IIIC Medal lecture by Nick Mamalis: “The future of IOLs”
– Information and Photo Gallery

    12th Biannual IIIC Meeting & Retreat, USA
19 - 24 August, 2019
Aspen, CO / USA

– Scientific Program
– Social Program
– More Information and Photo Gallery

    G. F. Jan Worst Medal Lectureship and Dinner
Sunday, May 5, 2019
San Diego, CA / USA

– Jan Worst Medal lecture by Simon Holland: “The legacy of Sir Harold Ridley”
– Information and Photo Gallery

    IIIC Medal Dinner and Annual Membership Meeting
Sunday, September 23, 2018
Vienna, Austria

– IIIC Medal lecture by Steve Arshinoff: "I never met a paradigm I really liked"
– Information and Photo Gallery

    G. F. Jan Worst Medal Lectureship and Dinner
Sunday, April 15, 2018
Washington, DC / USA

– Jan Worst Medal lecture by Gerd U. Auffarth: "The Worst Lens is the Best Lens"
– Information and Photo Gallery

    IIIC Medal Lecture and Annual Membership Meeting
October 8, 2017
Lisbon, Portugal

– IIIC Medal Lecture by David F. Chang: "Lessons from the World´s Greatest Team of Cataract Surgeons"
– Photo Gallery

    G. F. Jan Worst Medal Lectureship
May 7, 2017
Los Angeles, CA

– Jan Worst Medal Lecture by Abhay Vasavada: "From Practice to Professoring – in a private setting"
– Photo Gallery

    11th Binannual IIIC Meeting, Argentina
March 1-10, 2017
Buenos Aires - Mendoza - Bariloche, Argentina

– Meeting Website
– Scientific Program (PDF with links to lecture slides where available)
– Meeting Participants (PDF)

– Photo Galleries:
   – March 1-2: Buenos Aires: Dinner, Puesto Viejo/Estancia & Polo Club
   – March 3: Dinner at the Home of Dr. Zaldivar
   – March 4: Scientific Meeting
   – March 5: Harvest Festival at Mendoza Arena
   – March 5: Scientific Meeting, Departure spouses' program
   – March 6: Scientific Meeting
   – Photos and videos uploaded by participants

    IIIC Medal Lecture and Annual Membership Meeting
September 11, 2016
Copenhagen, Denmark

– IIIC Medal Lecture by Michael Knorz: "Personal History of Multifocal IOLs"
   - Full video of lecture
   - Slides of lecture (PDF)
– Invitation
– Photo Gallery

    G. F. Jan Worst Medal Lectureship
May 8, 2016
New Orleans, LA

– Jan Worst Medal Lecture by Randall J. Olsen: "A few lessons learned" (PDF, 5 MB)
– Invitation
– Photo Gallery

    IIIC Medal Lecture and Annual Membership Meeting
September 6, 2015
Barcelona, Spain

– IIIC Medal Lecture by Warren Hill: "Think Different"
– Invitation
– Photo Gallery

    10th Biennual IIIC "Heritage Retreat", Scotland
July 22 - 28, 2015
Gleneagles, Scotland

– Invitation and Program
– Photo Galleries:
  July 22 - Dinner at Chandos House, London
  July 23 - Touring Edinburgh
  July 23 - Arriving in Gleneagles, Dinner
  July 24 - Fishing
  July 24 - Retreat Program
  July 25 - Gala Dinner "The Taste of Scotland“
  July 25 - Scone Palace in Perthshire
  July 26-28 - Highland Journey on Board the Royal Scotsman

    G. F. Jan Worst Medal Lectureship
April 19, 2015
San Diego, CA 92101

– Jan Worst Medal Lecture by Kimiya Shimizu: "My career: 20/20" (PDF)
– Invitation
– Photo Gallery

    IIIC Medal Lecture and Annual Membership Meeting
September 14, 2014
London, United Kingdom

– IIIC Medal Lecture by Richard Packard: "London and the Eye" (PDF)
– Invitation
– Photo Gallery

    G. F. Jan Worst Medal Lectureship
April 27, 2014
Boston, MA, USA

– Jan Worst Medal Lecture by Samuel Masket: "Nothing in the World is All Good or All Bad" (PDF)
– Invitation
– Photo Gallery

    IIIC Medal Lecture and Annual Membership Meeting
October 6, 2013
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

– IIIC Medal Lecture by Hiroko Bissen-Miyajima: "Films and Friendship: Enriching my Path in Ophthalmology" (PDF, 23 MB)
– Invitation (PDF)
– Photo Gallery

    G. F. Jan Worst Medal Lectureship
April 21, 2013
San Francisco, CA , USA

– Jan Worst Medal Lecture by Manus Kraff: “Maintain your Brain” (PDF, 75 MB)
– Invitation
– Photo Gallery

    Ninth Biannual Retreat "Winter Carnival"
February 8-13, 2013
Quebec City, Canada
Fairmont Le Chateau Frontenac

– Photo Gallery
– More information

    IIIC Annual Membership Meeting and Dinner
September 9, 2012
Four Seasons Hotel, Milano

–IIIC Medal Lecture by Lucio Buratto: "The Evolution of Cataract Surgery Throughout My Life" (PDF, 55 MB)
– Photo Gallery
– Invitation

    G. F. Jan Worst Medal Lectureship
April 22, 2012
Chicago, IL, USA

– Jan Worst Medal Lecture by Spencer P. Thornton: "Cataract/Refractive Surgery: Where have we been, where are we going?" (PDF, 1 MB)
– Photo Gallery
– Invitation   [PDF, 100 KB]

Eighth Biannual Retreat "Escape to Bali"

G. F. Jan Worst Medal Lectureship
March 27, 2011
San Diego, CA, USA

– Jan Worst Medal Lecture by Jack T. Holladay: "Pics from the Past" [PDF, 1 MB]

    IIIC Annual Membership Meeting and Dinner
September 18, 2011
Vienna, Austria

– IIIC Medal Lecture by I. Howard Fine: "Conduct Your Own Masterpiece"
– Photo Gallery

G. F. Jan Worst Medal Lectureship
April 10, 2010
Boston, MA, USA

– Jan Worst Medal Lecture by Roberto Zaldivar: "A Familiy of Ophthalmologists.... A Genetic Disease?!"
– Invitation

IIIC Annual Membership Meeting and Dinner
September 2010
Paris, France

– IIIC Medal Lecture by Albert Galand MD, PhD: "In the bag, back to the source" (PDF, 3 MB)
– Invitation

    Seventh Biannual Retreat "The Oceanic Discoverer"
February 10-15, 2009
New Zealand

– Photo Gallery
– Invitation
– Scientific Program

G. F. Jan Worst Medal Lectureship
April 5, 2009
San Francisco, CA, USA

– Jan Worst Medal Lecture by Douglas Koch: "Sharing our stories: A look back and a glimpse ahead at the Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery" (PDF, 3.4 MB)
– Invitation

IIIC Annual Membership Meeting and Dinner
September 13, 2009
Barcelona, Spain

– IIIC Medal Lecture by Howard V. Gimbel: "Farm to Phako - What a Ride!"
– Invitation

G. F. Jan Worst Medal Lectureship
April 6, 2008
Chicago, IL, USA

– Jan Worst Medal Lecture by Okihiro Nishi: "Comrades-In-Arms In The PCO Battle" (PDF, 2.3 MB)
– Invitation

    IIIC Annual Membership Meeting and Dinner
September 14, 2008
Berlin, Germany

– IIIC Medal Lecture by Richard Lindstrom: "The Other Intraocular Implant: The Corneal Inlay"
– Photo Gallery
– Invitation

    Sixth Biannual Retreat "Get in Touch With all That is Zen"
March 23-24, 2007
Kyoto, Japan

– Photo Gallery
– Invitation

G. F. Jan Worst Medal Lectureship
April 29, 2007
San Diego, CA, USA

– Jan Worst Medal Lecture by Emanuel Rosen: "Twin Passions: Photography & Ophthalmology" (PDF, 12 MB)
– Invitation

    IIIC Annual Membership Meeting and Dinner
September 9, 2007
Stockholm, Sweden

– IIIC Medal Lecture by Michael Roper-Hall: "The Right Time And Place:
A Short History Of IIIC And Early Implantation"
– Invitation
– Photo Gallery

G. F. Jan Worst Medal Lectureship
March 19, 2006
San Francisco, CA, USA

– Jan Worst Medal Lecture by Thomas Neuhann: "From Black Sheep to Establishment" (PDF, 16 MB)
– Invitation

    IIIC Annual Membership Meeting and Dinner
September 10, 2006
London, England

– IIIC Medal Lecture by David Apple: "Sir Harold Ridley and his Fight for Sight"
– Photo Gallery
– Invitation

    Fifth Biannual Retreat "Aruba 2005"
February 11-12, 2005
Aruba, The Caribbean

– Photo Gallery
– Invitation and Program

G. F. Jan Worst Medal Lectureship
April 2005
Washington, DC, USA

– Jan Worst Medal Lecture by John Shepherd: "Connections and Landmarks: A Historic Prospective" (PDF, 6 MB)

    IIIC Annual Membership Meeting and Dinner
September 11, 2005
Lisbon, Portugal

– IIIC Medal Lecture by Stephen Obstbaum
– Photo Gallery

G. F. Jan Worst Medal Lectureship
May 2, 2004
San Diego, CA, USA

– Jan Worst Medal Lecture by Michael Blumenthal: "My Experience in Ophthalmology"
– Invitation

    IIIC Annual Membership Meeting and Dinner
2004
Paris, France

– IIIC Medal Lecture by Kensaku Miyake: "Seeing is Believing"
– Photo Gallery

    Fourth Biannual Retreat "Meet in Maui"
January 17-18, 2003
Maui, HA, USA

– Photo Gallery
– Invitation and Program

    G. F. Jan Worst Medal Lectureship
April 13, 2003
San Francisco, CA, USA

– Jan Worst Medal Lecture by Richard Kratz: "The Changing Paradigm"
– Photo Gallery
– Invitation

    IIIC Annual Membership Meeting and Dinner
2003
Munich, Germany

– IIIC Medal Lecture by Bo Philipson
– Photo Gallery

    G. F. Jan Worst Medal Lectureship
June 2, 2002
Philadelphia, PA, USA

– Jan Worst Medal Lecture by Robert M. Sinskey: "Life begins at 47"
– Photo Gallery
– Invitation

    IIIC Annual Membership Meeting and Dinner
2002
Nice, France

– IIIC Medal Lecture by Karl Jacobi
– Photo Gallery

2001 Third Biannual Retreat "Convene in Cape Town"
February 23-24, 2001
Cape Town, South Africa

– Invitation and Program

G. F. Jan Worst Medal Lectureship
April 29, 2001
San Diego, CA, USA

– Jan Worst Medal Lecture by Norman S. Jaffe: "Intraocular Lenses: A Triumph for what is Right"
– Invitation

    IIIC Annual Membership Meeting and Dinner
September 2, 2001
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

– IIIC Medal Lecture by Charles Kelman
– Photo Gallery
– Invitiation

    G. F. Jan Worst Medal Lectureship
May 21, 2000
Boston, MA, USA

– Jan Worst Medal Lecture by Marvin Kwitco: "IOLs I have used since 1967"
– Photo Gallery

    IIIC Annual Membership Meeting and Dinner
September 3, 2000
Brussels, Belgium

– IIIC Medal Lecture by Eric Arnott
– Inivtation
– Photo Gallery

    Second Biannual Retreat "Convene in the Canaries"
February 26-27, 1999
Tenerife, The Canary Islands, Spain

– Photo Gallery
– Invitation and Program

    G. F. Jan Worst Medal Lectureship
April 12, 1999
Seattle, WA, USA

– Jan Worst Medal Lecture by G. F. Jan Worst: "The History of Phakic Intraocular Lenses"
– Photo Gallery
– Invitation

IIIC Annual Membership Meeting and Dinner
September 5, 1999
Vienna, Austria

– IIIC Medal Lecture by D. Peter Choyce
– Invitiation

G. F. Jan Worst Medal Lectureship
June 21, 1998
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

IIIC Annual Membership Meeting and Dinner
September 6, 1998
Nice, France

Quadrennial Meeting
June 23 - 25, 1994 (Business Meeting on June 24)
Toronto, Canada