#  Charles Schepens, Father of Modern Retinal Surgery and WWII Hero, Featured in EyeWorld 

 





June 25, 2015

 

 

The remarkable story of **[Charles L. Schepens, MD](/charlesschepens)**, is featured in the June 2015 issue of *EyeWorld: The Newsmagazine of the American Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgery*. Dr. Schepens is widely known as the Father of Modern Retinal Surgery and the founder of what is now the **[Schepens Eye Research Institute](http://www.schepens.harvard.edu/)**. However, his lesser-known role as a World War II resistance fighter and spy is truly "the stuff of Hollywood films."

**[Read the full story](http://www.eyeworld.org/article-ophthalmologist-who-created-vitreoretinal-subspecialty-lived-double-life-as-wwii-resistance-fighter-and)** on the [*EyeWorld* website](http://www.eyeworld.org/).



 

 

 



 

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