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David J Apple MD is the official biographer of Sir Harold Ridley the inventor of the intraocular lens.

Dr. Apple pioneered the field of pathology of ophthalmic biodevices.

David Joseph Apple was born in Alton, Illinois in September 141941.

Dr. Apple did his undergraduate studies at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. He attended the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago, where he graduated in 1966. He served his internship and residency in pathology at Louisiana State University and Charity Hospital in New Orleans. In 1970, he completed a National Institutes of Health–sponsored post-residency in ocular pathology under Lorenz E. Zimmerman, MD, at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, DC.

Dr. Apple used his training and skills as both an ophthalmologist and pathologist to investigate the impact of intraocular lens (IOL) implantation on the eye. That clinico-pathological work on biomaterials and device design influenced the design, manufacturing, and surgical implantation of IOLs. His work also led to new understanding of surgical techniques in areas such as capsulorhexis, hydrodissection, cortical cleanup, and dealing with the posterior capsule.

Prof. Apple trained a generation of ophthalmologists (known as the Apple Korps) who continued the tradition of bringing scientific discipline to understanding cataract and refractive surgery.

Dr. Apple has published in peer-reviewed journal articles, chapters, and texts, as well as more than 600 publications that document and disseminate his findings.

He has delivered more that 1,300 lectures throughout the world to improve the understanding of other ophthalmologists about the impact of their surgical techniques on the eye.

David Apple was close friend of the late Sir Harold Ridley, the first surgeon to implant an intraocular lens and Ridley named him as his biographer.

Honors
The Binkhorst Medal (1988)

Charles D. Kelman Innovator’s Award (2005)

He is the only American to have been selected to give the European Guest lecture at the highly respected Oxford Ophthalmological Congress, Oxford (1998). Dr. Apple is a fellow of the American Ophthalmological Society. In 2003, he was elected to the German Academy of Research in the Natural Sciences, which is the equivalent of the American Academy of Sciences.