Prof. MD T. Kohnen
Frankfurt University Hospital

Professional Experience

• Since 2/2012 Professor and Chair, Department of Ophthalmology, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany
• 2011 Offer of the Val and Edith Green Presidential Professorship, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA
• 2011 Offer of the Professorship and Chairman position for Ophthalmology, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Magdeburg, Germany
• 2011 Offer of the Professorship and Chairman position for Ophthalmology, Department of Ophthalmology Goethe-University Frankfurt
• 2008 Fellow of European Board of Ophthalmologists (FEBO)
• 2007 Military Exercise (Chief Staff Surgeon), Military Hospital in Ulm, Germany
• 2003-2012 Deputy Chairman, Department of Ophthalmology, Goethe-University Frankfurt
• 2003 Professor of Ophthalmology, Department of Ophthalmology, Goethe-University Frankfurt
• 2001 Associate Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Goethe-University Frankfurt Since
• 2000 Visiting Professor of Ophthalmology, Cullen Eye Institute, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX/USA
• 1997 Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany
• 1996 Appointment as Head Surgeon
• 1995-1997 DFG (German Research Foundation) Scholarship at Cullen Eye Institute, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX/USA
• 1995 Traveler Scholarship, International Society for Refractive Surgery, Minneapolis, USA
• 1994-1995 Assistant Medical Director, Military Hospital, Ulm, Military Service (Medical Officer) and Military Exercise (Chief Staff Surgeon)
• 1994 German Board of Ophthalmology, Tübingen, Germany
• 1992-1993 Scientific Assistant, University Eye Clinic, Gießen, Germany
• 1991 MD, License to practice medicine
• 1989-1992 Scientific Assistant, Clinic Dardenne Bonn, Germany
• 1989 Physician’s Examination
• 1986-1987 Scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) in Milan, Italy and Bombay, India

Academic Studies / Qualifications

Studies

• 1982-1989 Medicine (Aachen, Bonn, USA)
  • Medical Examination: 11.05.1989
  • Approbation as Doctor: 01.02.1991
• 2006-2007 Health Care Management (ebs)
  • European Business School, International University, Schloß Reichartshausen, Germany. Degree: Health Care Management (ebs)

Doctorate

• 1989 Friedrich-Wilhelms University Bonn Dissertation: “Capsular and zonular ruptures as complications of cataract surgery with phacoemulsification“ 06.06.1989

Habilitation treatise

• 2000 Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt Habilitation

Medical Specialist Training and Accreditation

• 1994 Specialist in Ophthalmology
• 2008 European Board of Ophthalmology (FEBO)

Focus

Lens surgery

• Laser treatment of cataracts
• Small cut cataract surgery
• Multifocal lenses
• Infantile cataract

Refractive surgery

• LASIK (Femto-LASIK)
• PRK, Epi-LASIK
• PTK
• Phacic IOL (Acrysof, Artisan, ICL)
• RLA (MIOL, accommodative IOL, lens surgery with the femtosecond laser)
• KAMRA presbyopia correction
• AK, LRI

Corneal surgery

• Therapeutic excimer laser treatment
• Cornea transplantation (especially with the femtosecond laser)
• Therapy of corneal astigmatism (Femto-AK)