Optrafair Interview: Professor Lyndon Jones

Mike Hale Congratulations on receiving the BCLA Medal during 2019 for outstanding achievement in the field of contact lenses and anterior eye. What did being recognised mean to you?

Lyndon Jones It was a tremendous honour. Joining the ranks of people I have looked up to as mentors and colleagues for so many years was incredible. To think I was granted the same award as giants in the field of contact lens research such as Irving Fatt, Brien Holden, Ken Polse, Donald Korb and four of my mentors in Keith Edwards, Judith Morris, Brian Tighe and Des Fonn is unbelievable. What is somewhat bizarre is that I was actually serving on the BCLA Council back in the early 1990s prior to my move to Canada when Nathan Efron floated the idea of the medalist address. I was there when we discussed the development of the award – never imaging that just over 25 years later I would be a recipient.