Nominations open for leading BCLA honours

Nominations open for leading BCLA honours

BCLA members can now nominate their peers for two of the association’s most coveted honours.

Nominations for both the 2025 Irving Fatt Memorial Lecture and the BCLA Medal are now open, with a submission deadline of Friday, November 8.

The BCLA Medal is the Association’s most prestigious award. It is awarded to an individual at the biennial BCLA Clinical Conference and Exhibition and recognises outstanding achievement in the field of contact lenses and/or anterior eye.

Luke Stevens-Burt, chief executive of the BCLA, said: “Recognition from your peers is arguably the ultimate accolade and the BCLA Awards are held in incredibly high esteem across the profession.

“We look forward to receiving a high standard of nominations and submissions and the competition is sure to be strong, with the opportunity to present at the International Convention Centre in Birmingham in June 2025.”

Achievements could represent a significant contribution to the development, understanding, appreciation or usage of contact lenses, through invention, research, industrial work, clinical practice, or a similar level of contribution relating to anterior eye or technology for assessing the anterior eye, or such other means that are considered appropriate by the BCLA Council.

The BCLA Irving Fatt Memorial Lecture is aimed at postgraduates in the field of contact lenses and/or anterior eye, who have completed a PhD, a post-doctoral degree or MSc in the UK within the last five years and continued with their research either in private practice, hospital practice or academia.