Professor Yasuo Tano passed away suddenly on the last day of January 2009.
He was President of the Club Jules Gonin, President of the Asia-Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology and Past President of the Japanese Ophthalmological Society. He was the treasurer of the International Council of Ophthalmology and member of Academia Internationalis Ophthalmologica. He served on the editorial boards of many prestigious scientific journals including American Journal of Ophthalmology, Graefe’s Archives of Ophthalmology, Survey of Ophthalmology and Acta Ophthalmologica.
He is the author of over 700 peer-reviewed publications and 70 books and chapters in the field of ophthalmology and eye research. He was widely honoured for his contributions to ophthalmology and eye research. He has delivered many prominent honorary lectures, including the Jackson Memorial Lecture at the American Academy of Ophthalmology, the Pyron Lecture of the Vitreous Society and the Kreissig lecture at the EURETINA congress.