Nationality German Field Ophthalmology | Fields Ophthalmology | |
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Institutions University of Bochum Medical School Known for refractive surgery, cataract surgery with femtosecond laser People also search for Oliver Schwenn, Dieter Eisenmann, Ekkehard Fabian | ||
Burkhard Dick (*1963 in Brake, Lower Saxony) is a German ophthamologist who has specialized in refractive and cataract surgery. With his many contributions to the scientific literature on this topic, he is considered one of the pioneers of employing the femtosecond laser in cataract surgery.
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Biography
Dick attended high school in his hometown of Brake and graduated in 1983. After studying medicine at University of Giessen, he began his specialization as an eye surgeon. As a board certified ophthalmologist, Dick in 1996 joined the eye hospital of the University of Mainz where he became a full professor in 2003. In 2006, Dick was appointed chair of the department of ophthalmology at the University of Bochum and director of the University Eye Clinic. He turned the clinic into one of the surgical centers with the highest number of cataract patients treated with the femtosecond laser, a new technology which has the potential to improve the precision of cataract surgery which is the most frequent surgical intervention in North America and Europe.
Scientific contributions
Dick has published a large number of scientific articles and book chapters on various issues in eye surgery. He has informed the medical community about his experience with the femtosecond laser in special cases like patients with Marfan syndrome, with advanced cataracts, in pediatric cataracts and in individuals who had undergone corneal refractive surgery or are suffering from corneal disease. Dick currently acts as president of the German Association of Caratact Surgeons (DGII); in July 2016 the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) bestowed the Senior Achievement Award on him for his numerous lectures and instructional courses during annual AAO meetings. Dick is one of the editors of the first textbook to summarize the different applications of the femtosecond laser in ophthalmology, due to be published by Thieme Medical Publishers, New York, in early 2017.