Presented at the AAO Annual Meeting, the William F. Hoyt Lecture honors individuals whose lifetime clinical or research contributions — or exceptional service — have shaped neuro‑ophthalmology. Renown as a lecturer or educator may also be considered.

Listed below are all past recipients.

2026

• TBA

2025

• Michael Wall, MD — What Have We Learned From the Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension Treatment Trial?

2024

• Randy H. Kardon, MD, PhD — Ophthalmology in the Blink of an Eye

2023

• Steven Galetta, MD — Optic Neuritis and MS: Friend or Foe?

2022

• Steven E. Feldon, MD — The Superior Colliculus: A Path to Neuro-Ophthalmology

2021

• Valerie Biousse, MD — Acute Retinal Ischemia: Time for Action!

2019

• John L. Keltner, MD — CAR-Unexplained Visual Loss

2018

• Joseph F. Rizzo III, MD — Unraveling the Enigma of Non-Arteritic Anterior Ischemic Optic Neuropathy

2017

• Kathleen B. Digre, MD — More Than Meets the Eye: What an Ophthalmologist Needs to Know About Migraine and the Eye

2016

• Larry Frohman, MD — Can a unique little specialty show us some pervasive issues with the old and new models of healthcare delivery?

2015

• Anthony Arnold, MD — Ischemic Optic Neuropathy: The Evolving Profile, 1966-2015

2014

• Mark J. Kupersmith, MD — Optical Imaging of the Optic Nerve: Beyond Documenting RNFL Loss

2013

• Nancy J. Newman, MD — Neuro-Ophthalmology in Review: Around the Brain With 50 Fellows

2012

• Alfredo A. Sadun MD, PhD — Are We There Yet? Is Neuro-Ophthalmology at the Cusp of a Paradigm Shift?

2011

• Steven A. Newman, MD — Interventional Neuro-Ophthalmology, an Addition Not an Oxymoron

2010

• Jonathan Trobe, MD — Papilledema: The Vexing Issues

2009

• Norman J. Schatz, MD — The Troubles I've Seen

2008

• Peter J. Savino, MD — We answered this one this a.m.

2007

• Joel S. Glaser, MD — Romancing the Chiasm

2005

• Neil R. Miller, MD — Advances in the Diagnosis and Management of Optic Nerve Sheath Meningiomas

2004

• Creig Hoyt, MD — What Do We Really Know About Amblyopia?

2003

• Simmons Lessell, MD — The Neuro-Ophthalmic Complications of Radiation

2002

• H. Stanley Thompson, MD — The Vitality of the Pupil:  A History of the Clinical Use of the Pupil as an Indicator of Visual Potential

2001

• Thomas J. Carlow, MD — Oculomotor Ophthalmoplegic Migraine: Is it Really Migraine?