Leonidas Zografos MD is honorary Professor at the Faculty of Biology and Medicine of the University of Lausanne. His main research activities and clinical practice involve the diagnosis and conservative management of ocular tumours and the development of pioneering radiotherapy techniques. In 1984, he introduced proton beam irradiation to Western Europe for the treatment of intraocular tumours.
Professor Zografos has an international reputation in the field of ocular oncology and has received numerous honours and distinctions. In 2009, he was nominated Commander oft he Phoenix Legion oft he Hellenic Republic, in 2003 receved the Doctor Honoris causa degree of the University of Alger and in 2004 the Doctor Honoris causa degree oft he University of Athens.
He is a member of several ophthalmological scientific societies and has authored/co-authered over 160 original articles and 140 book chapters, reviews or letters. He was principal author and editor of the 2002 annual report of the French Ophtalmological Society on intraocular tumours.