Polish “Presbyopia 21” Club section

Specialist in ophthalmology, Greater Poland Regional Consultant for ophthalmology (2010–2015), Head of the Ophthalmology Department at the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn. He has won a number of prestigious national (e.g. from the Poznań Medical University) and international academic awards. Awarded the Bronze and Silver Cross of Merit by the President of Poland. Member of multiple scientific societies, including the European Association for Vision and Eye Research (EVER) — as Lens and Cataract Section Chair, European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons (ESCRS), American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO), European Society of Retina Specialists (Euretina). European University Professors of Ophthalmology (EUPO) lecturer; organizer and co-organizer of courses at international ophthalmology congresses such as the ESCRS and AOO congresses. He has published more than 350 scientific papers in peer-reviewed international journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine, Ophthalmology, Retina, Acta Ophthalmologica, Survey of Ophthalmology, British Journal Ophthalmology, Eye etc. Member of the editorial boards of Acta Ophthalmologica, Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology, TVST (ARVO), Neuroophthalmology, and other journals.

Professor Andrzej Grzybowski specializes in complex cataract surgery and certain vitreous body and retinal surgery procedures (vitrectomy). He performs approx. 150 cataract surgeries each month.

Head of the General Ophthalmology Department at the Department of Ophthalmology of the Lublin Medical University.

Professor Robert Rejdak graduated from the Lublin Medical University, where he also obtained his doctoral (2000) and postdoctoral degree (2009). On June 26, 2013, he was granted a professorship in medicine from the President of Poland. Now, he heads the General Ophthalmology Department of the Lublin Medical University and is an assistant professor at the Institute of Experimental and Clinical Medicine of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. Professor Robert Rejdak has completed numerous international internships and scholarships, e.g. in Tübingen, Erlangen, Frankfurt, and Bremen in Germany, and in Pisa and Ravenna in Italy.

He has authored approx. 120 full-text scientific publications (IF>110) and more than 200 contributions in national and international conferences, in all continents. He has received many awards and distinctions for his scientific work, e.g. in London, Berlin, and Lindau. He has won multiple collective awards of the Polish Minister of Health. Since 2011, he has worked as a professor and practical training coordination in vitreoretinal surgery at the European School for Advanced Studies in Ophthalmology (ESASO) seated in Lugano, Switzerland.

He specializes in cataract surgery and vitreoretinal surgery. He has performed more than 25,000 surgical interventions, including 18,000 cataract surgeries and 6,000 vitrectomies, and he is the first Polish surgeon ever to have performed a Scharioth macula lens implantation.

Ocular disease specialist, graduate of the Faculty of Medicine of the Military Medical Academy in Łódź.

He obtained his doctoral degree in medicine in 2004. In 2008, he completed an internship at the Jules Gonin Eye Hospital in Lausanne, supervised by Professor Andre Mermoud, one of the world’s best-known and most renowned specialists in glaucoma surgery, and especially nonpenetrating procedures. His professional interest in glaucoma surgery was reflected in his postdoctoral thesis on the subject, which allowed him to obtain his postdoctoral degree in 2009. In 2014, he was granted professorship.

In the years 2013–2016, he was the Ophthalmology Consultant for the Health Service of the Polish Armed Forces. In 2016, he was appointed by the Polish Minister of Health as the National Consultant for ophthalmology.

For many years, he headed the Department of Ophthalmology at the 2nd Faculty of Medicine of the Warsaw Medical University. He has authored or co-authored nearly 290 scientific publications and 16 textbooks, worked as editor-in-chief of 2 medical journals, and spoken at more than 325 Polish and international conferences. As an ophthalmology pioneer, Professor Jerzy Szaflik has created the Ocular Tissue Bank in Warsaw, which opened in 1995. Together with an international team of researchers, he has investigated ophthalmic genetics and introduced a technique of extracapsular cataract extraction. As one of the first Polish surgeons, he performed modern cataract removal surgery using phacoemulsification, and recently, he has been removing cataracts using a femtosecond laser. In 2012, the Polish Academy of Sciences decided to present Professor Jerzy Szaflik with the Medal of the Polish Academy of Sciences for his exceptional contributions to Polish and international science.

Graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of the Bydgoszcz Medical Academy in 1999.

Completed a postgraduate course in Healthcare Management and Organization (2000–2001).
Holds a doctoral (2005) and postdoctoral degree (2010)
with specialty in Ophthalmology (2006).

Since 2001, he has been a research assistant and assistant professor at the Ocular Disease Department of the Collegium Medicum in Bydgoszcz, Poland. Since 2003, he has been working as an ophthalmologist at the OFTALMIKA Ophthalmology Clinic in Bydgoszcz.

Head of the Department of Ophthalmology of the Silesian Medical University in Katowice; Head of the Adult Ophthalmology Ward at the Professor K. Gibiński University Hospital of the Silesian Medical University in Katowice; Head of the Postgraduate Training Center at the Faculty of Medicine of the Silesian Medical University in Katowice.
She graduated from the Katowice Silesian Medical Academy’s Faculty of Medicine in Zabrze. She completed her basic and advanced specialist training in Ophthalmology in 1992 and 1995, respectively.
She obtained her doctoral degree in 1996, and her postdoctoral degree in 2007. In 2013, she was granted professorship by the President of Poland.
She is a member of numerous Polish (e.g. Polish Physiological Society; Polish Ophthalmological Society — board member since 2010, Head of the Refractive and Cataract Surgery Section since 2014) and international scientific societies (e.g. ESCRS — board member since 2014; Deutsche Ophthalmologische Geselschaft, American Academy of Ophthalmology, EuCornea, Cornea Society, Presbymania Club)
She has authored or co-authored more than 200 scientific publications, including 3 monographs and 2 book chapters; as well as more than 500 contributions presented at
world, European, and Polish conferences and congresses.
Her scientific interests include: corneal and ocular surface diseases — diagnostics, non-invasive and invasive (laser or instrumental) treatment; refractive errors — diagnostics, laser refractive surgery, intraocular surgery (phakic, aspheric, multifocal, toric, add-on, and bioanalog lenses); imaging techniques in ophthalmology, including corneal topography, aberrometry, confocal microscopy, OCT, UBM; glaucoma and its treatment; surgical treatment of cataracts, presbyopia, and premium artificial intraocular lens implantation.

She is an accomplished micro-surgeon with many years of clinical experience in cataract and refractive surgery, as well as glaucoma and AMD treatment.
In the years 1994–2011, she was a research assistant and assistant professor at the Ophthalmology Department of the Wrocław Medical Academy. She has completed numerous internships in renowned institutions in Europe (Switzerland, United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, Belgium) and the United States (Indianapolis). Member of the German Ophthalmological Society (DOG) and European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons (ESCRS). Author of numerous scientific publications and a handbook for ophthalmologists on laser therapy in diabetic retinopathy. An experienced surgeon, she uses state-of-the-art surgical techniques and innovative intraocular lenses.

Clinician with many years of experience in refractive surgery. He has completed numerous internships, e.g. in England, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, and the Netherlands
He received his doctoral degree in 2000, and became a specialist in ocular diseases in the same year. In the years 1994–2001, he was a research assistant and assistant professor in the Ophthalmology Department of the Wrocław Medical Academy. In the years 2001–2002, he was the head of the Spektrum clinical ophthalmology center. He has completed numerous traineeships and internships, e.g. in general ophthalmology in Windsor (United Kingdom), Athens (Greece), Milan (Italy), Budapest (Hungary), Amsterdam (Netherlands); in refractive surgery in Antwerp (Belgium), Ahaus (Germany), Kleinostheim (Germany); in glaucoma in Prague (Czech Republic), Lugano (Switzerland), Basel (Switzerland), Würzburg (Germany), London (United Kingdom); in AMD treatment (photodynamic therapy) in Prague (Czech Republic). In the Spektrum clinic, he performs refractive surgery and laser treatments.

Dr Paweł Klonowski is a specialist in Ophthalmology and a micro-surgeon with many years of professional experience. He graduated from medical school in 1995. Subsequently, he completed basic and advanced specialist training in Ophthalmology, passing the final exams in 1998 and 2003, respectively.

Beside his professional practice, doctor Klonowski works in education as a senior assistant at the Department of Ophthalmology at the Lublin Medical University. He also continues to expand his expertise during numerous scientific congresses and symposiums.