Professor Dr. Ulrich Kellner
Scientific Career
- 1983 - 1984 General medicine, Ev. Hospital Wanne-Eickel
Director: D. Voss, MD
- 1984 - 1990: Eye Department, University Essen
Directors: Prof. G. Meyer-Schwickerath, MD; Prof. A. Wessing, MD; Prof. T.N. Waubke, MD
- 1990 - 2003: Dept. of Ophthalmology, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Director: Prof. M.H. Foerster, MD
- 2004: Private practice in Siegburg
- since July 2004: AugenZentrum Siegburg
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Clinical experience
- Diagnosis and therapy of retinal diseases
- Surgical treatment of all retinal diseases
- Electrophysiologic and morphologic differential diagnosis of inherited and acquired retinal and optic nerve disorders
- Electrophysiologic diagnostic
- Application of retinal imaging
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Surgical experience
- More than 6000 surgical procedures (not including laser treatment), of these, more than 4000 vitreoretinal procedures
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Scientific interests
- Inherited retinal und optic nerve disorders
- Age-related macular degeneration and other acquired retinal and optic nerve disorders
- Electrophysiologic and morphologic early and differential diagnosis of retinal diseases
- Correlation of molecular genetic and clinical findings in inherited retinal disorders
- Development of retinal imaging techniques (fundus autofluorescence, near-infrared autofluorescence, optical coherence tomography)
- Publications
- more than 100 papers as author or co-author in peer-reviewed journals
- 3 scientific books on retinal disorders, 1 scientific CD-ROM on retinal dystrophies
- several book chapters on inherited retinal dystrophies and ophthalmology
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Awards
- Senator Hermann Wacker Award 1998
- Retinitis pigmentosa Award for Fighting blindness of the German and Swiss Retinitis pigmentosa Society 1998
- Award of the Christian and Emmy Sörensen-Stiftung for high-quality and patient understandable information on ophthalmic disorders 2005
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