Eric Donnenfeld ’77, M.D., an internationally respected refractive cataract surgery pioneer and LASIK eye surgeon, has been appointed president of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery. Donnenfeld is a founding partner of Ophthalmic Consultants of Long Island, New York, and Connecticut, national medical director of TLC Laser Eye Centers and surgeon director of the Lions Eyebank of Long Island.

Roger Zissu ’60 has earned the 2013 American Inns of Court Professionalism Award for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Zissu, who is currently a partner in Fross Zelnick Lehrman & Zissu in New York City, has worked extensively in the field of copyright law for more than 40 years.

Alan Rapoport ’62, M.D., a neurology professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, has been named president of the International Headache Society. Rapoport is the founder and former director of the New England Center for Headache in Stamford, Connecticut, and the founding president of the Headache Cooperative of New England.

Dylan Gray ’91, a Mumbai-based filmmaker, has earned honors with Fire in the Blood, a documentary about how Western pharmaceutical companies and governments aggressively blocked access to low-cost AIDS drugs for the countries of Africa. The film, which started showing in the United States and in various international film festivals in the fall, has been named a Salon “Pick of the Week” and was screened at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.

Dune Thorne ’98, a partner in the Boston office of investment advisory firm Brown Advisory, has been named a 2013 Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. Thorne, who is also the founder of Invest in Girls, a nonprofit financial literacy and mentor program for young women, will join the Forum of Young Global Leaders, which works with the World Economic Forum to shape industry, regional and global change.

Ben True ’08 took sixth place in the World Cross Country Championship race in Bydgoszcz, Poland, in March. True—who has run personal bests in the past year in the 3,000-meter (7:44.1), 5,000-meter (13:20) and 10,000-meter (27:41)—helped secure a silver medal for the United States.

Lucretia Witte ’10 has been awarded a Fulbright scholarship to live in Athens and study modern Greek, teach high school English and study the permutations of cultural mythology in pop culture.