IACLE has announced the winners of the 2024 IACLE Contact Lens Educator of the Year Award and 2024 Travel Award to recognize and reward achievement in contact lens education.

Sponsored by CooperVision, three IACLE Contact Lens Educator of the Year Award winners will attend Academy 2024 Indianapolis, IN and receive their awards during the International Reception hosted by CooperVision. The 2024 Contact Lens Educator of Year awards are:

• IACLE Americas Contact Lens Educator of the Year: Dr Aldo Ortiz, Universidad Galileo Quetzaltenango, Guatemala

• IACLE Asia Pacific Contact Lens Educator of the Year: Madhumathi Subramanian, Sankara Nethralaya, Chennai, India

• IACLE Europe/Africa/Middle East Contact Lens Educator of the Year: Dr Stefan Bandlitz, Cologne School of Optometry, Cologne, Germany

In addition, through the support of all IACLE partners (Alcon, CooperVision, Johnson & Johnson, Bausch + Lomb, Ophtecs, Menicon, and Euclid), Asad Ullah from Timergara Teaching Hospital, Pakistan, will travel to an international meeting in the upcoming months as the 2024 IACLE Travel Award winner.