Povilas Stirbys is a leading cataract surgeon, an ophthalmologist of the highest category and an expert physician from Lithuania. He has many years of experience in microsurgery at clinics across the European Union, routinely performing cataract removal and lens replacement with modern premium intraocular lenses.
He works to European standards of quality and safety: thorough pre-operative diagnostics, a lens chosen individually for each patient’s lifestyle, gentle micro-incision surgery and attentive aftercare. Patients value his calm manner, surgical precision and his ability to explain every step of treatment in plain words.
Specialisation
- Cataract surgery (phacoemulsification) with premium intraocular lens implantation
- Refractive lens exchange for life without glasses
- Multifocal and toric lenses to correct presbyopia and astigmatism
- Complex and complicated cataract cases
- Diagnosis and treatment of glaucoma
- Laser treatment of eye diseases
Professional distinctions
- Ophthalmologist of the highest qualification category
- Expert physician status
- Many years of surgical practice in European Union clinics
- Regular participant of leading European ophthalmology congresses — ESCRS, EURETINA, Forum Ophthalmologicum Balticum
Continuing education
Since 2012 he has continuously refined his skills at Lithuanian and international ophthalmology forums:
- 42nd Congress of the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons (ESCRS), Fira de Barcelona, Spain
- 10th EURETINA Winter Meeting, 2023, Vilnius, Lithuania
- Forum Ophthalmologicum Balticum (FOB) — 2019, Vilnius, Lithuania; 2022, Tartu, Estonia
- Congresses of Baltic ophthalmologists
- Scientific conferences of the Lithuanian Society of Ophthalmologists and the Lithuanian Glaucoma Society
- Conferences of the Kaunas Region Ophthalmologists Association