Gerd Uwe Auffarth (Prof. Dr. med. Gerd U. Auffarth, FEBO) is a German eye surgeon, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology at Heidelberg University and Medical Director of the Heidelberg University Eye Clinic (Germany). He is one of the world’s leading experts in cataract surgery and intraocular lenses (artificial lenses implanted to replace the eye’s natural lens).
Professor Auffarth works with the German Eye Clinic as a Scientific Consultant. He provides training and consultations for our doctors, so that patients in Kyiv are treated according to the approach of a leading German university clinic.
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Training and consultations for our doctors
- Training the clinic’s doctors in modern cataract and lens surgery techniques
- Consulting our doctors on complex clinical cases
- Sharing expertise in intraocular lens selection and calculation
- Bringing new techniques and research into the clinic’s practice
Specialisation
- Cataract surgery
- Intraocular lenses — toric, aspheric, multifocal
- Refractive surgery (vision correction)
- Corneal transplantation
- Ocular pathology and research
Education
- Medical School, RWTH Aachen University, Germany — 1990
- Ophthalmology residency — Aachen and Heidelberg University Eye Clinic; board certification in ophthalmology — 1996
- Max Kade Foundation postdoctoral fellowship — Storm Eye Institute, Medical University of South Carolina (USA), 1992–1994
- Habilitation (Privatdozent) in ophthalmology — 1999; Professor at Heidelberg University since 2005
- Fellow of the European Board of Ophthalmology (FEBO)
Professional activity
- Medical Director of the Heidelberg University Eye Clinic and Chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology since 2011
- Director of the David J. Apple International Laboratory for Ocular Pathology
- Director of the International Vision Correction Research Centre (IVCRC)
- Founder of the Heidelberg IOL and Refractive Surgery Research Group (1999)
- Elected President of the German Ophthalmological Society (DOG), the world’s oldest scientific society of ophthalmologists (2023)
- President of the German-speaking Society for IOL Implantation and Refractive Surgery (DGII), 2012–2016
- Co-founder of the Lions Cornea Bank Heidelberg
- One of the first surgeons to implant toric, aspheric and multifocal intraocular lenses
Awards and achievements
- Binkhorst Medal Lecture of the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons (ESCRS) — 2021
- Theodor Axenfeld Award and Jan Worst Medal Lecture
- Named eight times on The Ophthalmologist Power List of the world’s most influential ophthalmologists (ranked 2nd in 2018)
- More than 200 professional awards
- More than 300 peer-reviewed papers and more than 370 book chapters