2026 R. Townley Paton Award Lecture - Everything is Cornea: The Costs and Benefits of Global Corneal Health

Winston D. Chamberlain, MD, PhD is the Petti Professor of Cornea and Refractive Surgery at the Casey Eye Institute and the Chief of the Cornea Service at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, Oregon. He received his B.S. in biology from California Institute of Technology. He holds a Ph.D. in immunology and an M.D. from the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. He is board certified in ophthalmology, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and also holds memberships in the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, Cornea Society Members with Thesis and American Ophthalmology Society. He currently serves as the Chair of the EBAA Board of Directors, and has served on the EBAA Medical Advisory Board since 2015 and the Accreditation Board since 2012. He has served as a consultant to the FDA Ophthalmic Devices Panel. His research interests include the outcomes of keratoplasty surgery with laser and endothelial transplantation, ocular inflammatory responses and imaging of corneal microstructures. He lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife and 2 sons and enjoys skiing, hiking, running and traveling.