| Thygeson Lecturer | Title | Date | 
               
                 | Membership | OMIG is dedicated to Phillips Thygeson | 10/30/82 | 
               
                 | Dan Jones, MD | Emerging Antibiotic Resistance in Ocular Infections: Real and Relative | 10/28/95 | 
               
                 | Robert Hendricks, PhD | Cell Regulation of Herpes Simplex  Virus-Induced Corneal Inflammation | 10/26/96 | 
               
                 | Gilbert Smolin, MD. | Ocular Allergy | 10/25/97 | 
               
                 | Richard J. O'Callaghan, PhD | The Role of Bacterial Exoproteins in Experimental Staphylococcus and Pseudomonas Keratitis | 11/7/98 | 
               
                 | Panel | Vancomycin Prophylaxis Mini-symposium | 10/23/99 | 
               
                 | Jerry Niederkorn, PhD | New insights into the Mechanism or Corneal Graft Rejection | 10/21/00 | 
               
                 | Jules Baum, MD | Amniotic Membrane Transplantation - Is it Effective? | 11/10/01 | 
               
                 | Gregory Schultze, PhD | Molecular Approaches in the Treatment of Ulcerative Keratitis | 10/19/02 | 
               
                 | Richard Forster, MD | The Correlation of Microbiology and Pathology in Experimental Endophthalmitis as a Prelude to Focused Therapy | 11/15/03 | 
               
                 | Linda Hazlett, PhD | Pseudomonas aeruginosa: Models and Treatment of the Disease | 10/23/04 | 
               
                 | Deborah Langston, MD | Herpes Zoster Neurotrophic Keratopathy | 10/15/05 | 
               
                 | William T. Driebe, Jr., MD | Contact Lens Related Ulcerative Keratitis | 11/10/06 | 
               
                 | Sally Atherton, PhD | Herpes Simplex Virus Infections: From Outside In?
 | 11/09/07 | 
               
                 | Y. Jerold Gordon, MD | The Life and Times of Adenovirus 1899 - 2008 | 11/07/08 | 
               
                 | Todd P Margolis, MD, PhD | The Establishment of Latent Infection with Herpes Simplex Virus | 10/23/09 | 
               
                 | Thomas Liesegang, MD | The Varicella Zoster Virus - Translating research in other medical fields to Ophthalmology | 10/15/10 | 
               
                 | Suzanne M. Fleiszig, OD, PhD, FAAO | Pseudomonas aeruginosa versus ocular surface: Who wins and why? | 10/21/11 | 
               
                 | John Sutphin, MD | Confocal Microscopy and the Cornea | 11/9/12 | 
               
                 | Michael Gilmore, PhD | Understanding Epidemic Bacterial Conjunctivitis through Comparative Genomics | 11/15/13 | 
               
                 | Reza  Dana, MD, MSc, MPH | What  Have We Learned About Alloimmunity and Autoimmunity  From Experimental Cornea Models? | 10/17/14 | 
               
                 | Eric Pearlman, PhD | New insights into the pathogenesis of fungal  keratitis | 11/13/15 | 
               
                 | James Chodosh, MD, MPH | Pink  Eye and the Evolution of New Human Adenoviruses | 10/14/16 | 
               James V. Jester, MD | Meibomian Gland Dysfunction: A Meibocyte Centric Hypothesis | 11/10/17 | Victor L. Perez, MD | Strategies to Induce Immune Tolerance for High Risk Corneal Transplants | 10/26/18 | Darlene Miller, DHSc, MPH | Acanthamoeba and Keratitis ... More than Meets the Eye | 10/11/19 | Stephen C. Pflugfelder, MD | Meibomian Gland Dysfunction: A Meibocyte Centric Hypothesis | 11/13/20 | Michelle C. Callegan, PhD, FARVO | Targeting Innate Immune Pathways in Bacterial Endophthalmitis | 11/12/21 | Ana Luisa Hofling-Lima, MD | The Role of Photoactivated Chromophores in the Treatment of Infectious Keratitis | 9/30/22 | 
                | Cintia S. de Paiva, MD, PhD | Gut microbiome and Sjogren-Syndrome | 11/3/23 | 
               
                | Thomas Lietman, MD | Will the Last Case of Trachoma Please Stand Up? | 10/18/24 |