Charles Louis Schepens was an influential Belgian ophthalmologist, regarded by many in the profession as "the father of modern retinal surgery", and member of the French Resistance.
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11 Facts About Charles Schepens
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Charles Schepens was born in Mouscron, Belgium, in 1912; his father was a physician.
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Charles Schepens worked under the alias of Jacques Perot, a lumber mill operator in the French Basque village of Mendive.
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Charles Schepens is credited for creating the vitreo-retinal subspecialty in ophthalmology.
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Charles Schepens founded a research laboratory for the investigation of retinal disease, the Retina Foundation, in 1950.
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In 1967, Charles Schepens founded The Retina Society and was its first president from 1968 to 1969.
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Charles Schepens invented the binocular indirect ophthalmoscope, which is routinely used to look at the retina.
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Charles Schepens was a pioneer of surgical techniques such as scleral buckling for the repair of retinal detachments.
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In 1999, Charles Schepens was chosen by the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery as one of the ten most influential ophthalmologists of the century.
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