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Haag-Streit Diagnostics Announces Winners of the ‘2020 Slit Lamp Imaging Competition’

The competition was a great success, receiving almost 300 entries.

Published

4 years ago

October 20, 2020

INVISION Staff

Silicone Oil Bubbles by Mel Yeneralski

(PRESS RELEASE) HARLOW, UK — Haag-Streit announces the winners of the ‘2020 Slit Lamp Imaging Competition’.

The competition was a great success, receiving almost 300 entries. The judges selected 12 finalists, who delivered outstanding images. HS-UK is delighted that both first and second place winners came from UK hospitals.

Following a great deal of deliberation, the judges announced that the winner was Mel Yeneralski, ophthalmic photographer, Cambridge University Hospitals. Her superb image was taken of silicone oil bubbles.

John McCormick, medical photographer at the Tennent Institute of Ophthalmology, Gartnavel General Hospital, received the prize for second place for his fantastic image of corneal endothelial pigment down growth. In third place, Eva Steffan will receive her prize for an image of a vitreous prolapse.

Haag-Streit Diagnostics also announced the 9 runners up; Carmen Rodrigues, Katie Lachut, Kim Baxter, Nicole Mantel-Baerlocher, Dr. Pablo Gili, Pia Lohri, Utpal Sarkar, Yajie Zheng and Zhang Yang.

All 12 images will feature in the Haag-Streit Diagnostics 2021 calendar. For further information on the winners and to see their images, click here.

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