Efron received undergraduate and Ph.D. degrees at the
University of Melbourne in 1981 and the same year became a
President of the
Contact Lens Society of Australia. He left for postdoctoral studies at the
University of California, Berkeley and the
University of New South Wales. He returned to Melbourne as a lecturer then senior lecturer before becoming the chair of clinical optometry at the
University of Manchester in 1990. He became a founding
chairman of the clinical optometry at the
University of Manchester, England where he also founded a
contact lens research unit known as Eurolens Research. A recipient of a
Doctor of Science from Manchester, Efron is also a past president of the
British Contact Lens Association. In 2001 he was awarded a gold medal by the same association and began to serve as a dean at the University of Manchester from that year till 2004. In 2003 he received the
Max Schapero Award and by 2006 he returned to his homeland as a research professor. He joined
Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation,
School of Optometry at
Queensland University of Technology the same year and currently has grants from the
National Health and Medical Research Council, the
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International and the
George Weaber Foundation Trust. in 2015, he was honoured in the Queens Birthdays honours list. ==References==