Ophthalmic community grieves Jan Worst, leader in IOL innovation

Jan Worst, MD, a leader in IOL innovation, died Friday, Sept. 25, in his hometown of Groningen, the Netherlands, surrounded by his family. Worst was trained as an ophthalmologist during the years when Sir Harold Ridley was fighting a hard battle to persuade the scientific community that an artificial lens could be implanted in the eye. Cornelius Binkhorst, MD, a great advocate of Ridley and inventor of the iris clip lens, was his “teacher and inspirer,” as Worst himself used to say.