Australia’s Professor Graham Barrett has been inducted into The Ophthalmologist’s inaugural Hall of Fame, an accolade bestowed on individuals deemed to have had an impact on the profession which will last beyond their lifetime.

The first annual Power List Hall of Fame launched last month with 10 inductees, while five more will be inducted next year and each and every subsequent year.

Prof Barrett, who also received an OA in the Queen’s 2022 birthday honours list in Australia, said, “It’s been a privilege to have been included on the Power List several times in past years, but I was honestly taken aback to hear I’d now been considered worthy of inclusion on the inaugural Power List Hall of Fame.” A consultant ophthalmic surgeon at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital and a clinical professor in the University of Western Australia’s Centre for Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Prof Barrett is the founding and current president of the Australasian Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgeons, past president of the Asia Pacific Association of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons and a Lions Eye Institute surgeon.

Prof Barrett’s fellow inductees are Professors Anat Loewenstein (Israel), David Garway-Heath, Sir Peng Khaw (UK), Shigeru Kinoshita (Japan, US and UK), Theo Seiler (Switzerland), Dr Emily Chew, Distinguished Professor Robert Weinreb, Professor George Spaeth and Dr Carol Shields (US).