Cornea Specialist/Director of NIIOS, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Director of NIIOS USA, San Diego, CA, USA
Who is someone in ophthalmology / your subspecialty that you feel has been particularly influential over the past 10 years?
Jack Parker at Parker Cornea in Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
What’s been the biggest breakthrough in ophthalmology / your specific field over the last 10 years, and what are the reasons behind your choice?
Bowman layer onlay transplantation in the management of keratoconus.
Do you have any strong opinions with which the rest of the field tends to disagree?
The corneal endothelium plays a secondary role in corneal transparency.
What would you like to see change in ophthalmology / your subspecialty over the next 10 years and why is this the case?
Textbooks based on clinical observation rather than human interpretation.
