Gerd U. Auffarth, MD, FEBO, graduated from Medical School at the RWTH Aachen, University of Technology, Germany, and completed his Ophthalmology residency in Aachen and at the University Eye Clinic Heidelberg, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg. He has been a Max-Kade Post-doctoral Stipendary and Research fellow at the Centre for Research on Ocular Therapeutics and Biodevices at
A pioneer in phaco surgery performing 100 surgeries a month, Dr. Mahbubur Rahman Chowdhury has been Chairman of the Bangladesh Eye Hospital since 2004. He is a member of the Bangladesh Medical Association (BMA), the Bangladesh Ophthalmologic Society, and Sandhani, Bangladesh. Dr. Chowdhury has written papers and presented in numerous forums around the world. He
Prof. Dr. M. Nazrul Islam is a glaucoma specialist and phaco surgeon, senior consultant at Bangladesh Eye Hospital, and former head of the ophthalmology department at BIRDEM Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh. He is president of the Bangladesh Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgeons and the Bangladesh Eye Care Society, chairman of the Board of Management of
Dr. Haiying Jin is associate professor and vice-chair of the Department of Ophthalmology, Xinhua Hospital affiliated to Medical College, Shanghai Jiaotong University; a committee member of the Chinese Association of Cataract Surgeons; and a research fellow in the Department of Ophthalmology, University of Heidelberg, Germany. Dr. Jin’s clinical and research interests include cataract surgical
Professor Hong Jing is the director of the department of Ophthalmology, professor, chief physician, doctoral supervisor, director of cornea ocular surface disease department, director of eye bank and director of Ophthalmic Pathology Department of Peking University Third Hospital. Hong is mainly engaged in the research of corneal endothelial disease, intraocular viral infection, immune ocular
Following training in ophthalmology at West China University of Medical Sciences in Chengdu, China, Dr. Fan undertook post-doctorial training and was a faculty instructor in Ophthalmology at University of Louisville, USA. She is now a professor and a consultant ophthalmic surgeon in West China Hospital at Sichuan University. Dr. Fan’s clinical works focus on refractive
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Dr. Chandra Bala specializes in cataract, cornea and refractive surgery, and glaucoma surgery, with comprehensive experience in the anterior segment of the eye. In addition to general ophthalmic training and a PhD in ophthalmology, Dr. Bala completed a glaucoma fellowship with Associate Professor Paul Healy at Westmead Hospital, a cornea fellowship with Dr. Gerrit Melles