Awards

Junior Ophthalmologist and Senior Ophthalmologist of the Year

Nominate one of your peers to be honored in each Service for the hard work they have done. Self-nominations will be allowed as some are located where they are the only ophthalmologist and we would like to ensure we don’t overlook your excellent work over the last year. These awards will be announced at our annual meeting.

2024
AF Junior: Donovan Reed
AF Senior: Timothy Soeken
Army Junior: Wesley Brundrige
Army Senior: Samantha Rodgers
Navy Junior: Ryan Richmond
Navy Senior: James Zimmerman

2023
SMO Junior: Matthew Cardinale, DO, USA
SMO Senior: Brittany Powell, MD, USN

2020
AF Junior: Karina Bostwick 
AF Senior: Jon Ellis 
Army Junior: Gary Legault
Army Senior: Michael Mines 
Navy Junior: Brittany Powell 
Navy Senior: Kyle Miller 

2018
AF Junior: Mike Parsons
AF Senior: Matt Caldwell
Army Junior: Ryan Roberts
Army Senior: Eric Weber
Navy Junior: Eva Chou
Navy Senior: Frank Bishop

St. Lucia Award

An honor society akin to those for Artillery Officers or Armor Officers. Those in the Army will be most familiar with these Societies. Nominations for this award are accepted year-round and are usually presented in person at a convenient time; not necessarily the annual meeting. Learn more.

Ancient Order of Saint Lucia

2024

Col Richard Townley, MD, USAF

CAPT (Ret) Sayjal Patel, MD, USN

CAPT Thomas “Ben” Ableman, MD, USN

CAPT Steven Hudson, MD, USNR

LTC Samantha Rodgers, MD, USA

LTC Gary Legault, MD, USA

2023

Robert L. Stamper, MD

2020

LTC Marissa Wedel, USA

CAPT (Ret) Scott McClatchey, USN

CAPT Ed Jaeger, USN (Ret)—posthumous 

CAPT (Ret) Allan Steigleman, USN(Ret)

COL (Ret) Robert Mazzoli, USA

COL (Ret) Anthony Johnson, USA

Harold Kushner, MD, POW during Vietnam War

COL Casey Carlton, USA

COL Sheri DeMartelaere, USA 

Lt Col Richard Blanch, British Army

CAPT Matt Rings, USN—posthumous

Honorable Order of Saint Lucia  

2024

Lt Col Rachel Lieberman, USAF

Lt Col Brett Davies, USAF

Lt Col Charisma Evangelista, USAF

Lt Col Aaron Grant, USAF

COL Vladimir Yakopson, USA

LTC Jason Harris, USA

2020

CAPT Brian Alexander, USN(Ret) CAPT Kimberly Davis, USN CDR Eva Chou, USN 

LtCol Jon Ellis, USAF Maj Bill Gensheimer, USAF Maj Charisma Evangelista, USAF 

MAJ Lucas Groves, USA CAPT David Klink, USN(Ret) LTC Matthew Kuhnle, USA 

LCDR Ruston Hess, USN COL Thomas Llovas, USA COL Scott McClellan, USA 

COL Mike Mines, USA CDR Todd Mondzelewski, USN LTC Patrick Munson, USA 

LTC Ryan Roberts, USA CDR Joe Schmitz, USN LCDR Ian Uber, USN 

COL Frank Valentin, USA LTC Eric Weber, USA MAJ Jim Weightman, USA

Society of Saint Lucia 

2024

Lt Col Marion Powell, USAF

Lt Col Ryan Molchan, USAF

2020

Robyn Hulvey: long-time administrator of the Society of Military Ophthalmologists and the San Antonio Review Course.