Dr. med. Thomas Kohnen, MD, PhD, FEBO

Professor and Chair, Department of Ophthalmology Goethe University, Frankfurt

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Dr. med. Thomas Kohnen, MD, PhD, FEBO

Professor and Chair, Department of Ophthalmology Goethe University, Frankfurt

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 1997 Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Goethe-University, Frankfurt

Prof. Dr. Thomas Kohnen, MD, PhD, FEBO

• Professor and Chair, Department of Ophthalmology
• Goethe University, Frankfurt
• 1996 Appointment as Head Surgeon
• 1995 – 1997 DFG (German Research Foundation) Scholarship at Cullen Eye Institute, Baylor
• College of Medicine, Houston, TX/USA, “Physiology and pathophysiology of
• refractive corneal interventions with laser thermal keratoplasty (LTK). An experimental and clinical survey“
• 1995 Traveler Scholarship, International Society for Refractive Surgery, Minneapolis,
• MN/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 (resident in
• ophthalmology)
• 1991 MD, License to practice medicine
• 1989 – 1992 Scientific Assistant, Clinic Dardenne Bonn, Germany (resident in ophthalmology)
• 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, overall rating: summa cum laude
• Habilitation treatise
• 2000 Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt
• Habilitation treatise: “Holmium:YAG laser thermal keratoplasty to correct
• hyperopia: Histological, ultrastructural, immunhistochemical,
• and clinical studies“
• Medical Specialist Training and Accreditation
• 1994 Specialist in Ophthalmology
• 2008 European Board of Ophthalmology (FEBO)

Examiner

• Member of the Control Commission of the Institute for Medical and Pharmaceutical Examination
• Questions (IMPP, Mainz) since 2015
• Chairman and Member of the Examination Board for the Oral and Practical Examination of the
• 2nd and 3rd Section of the Medical Examination in Higher Education at the University of
• Frankfurt
• Medical Specialist Examiner for Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate

Organisational Memberships

• Deutsche Ophthalmologische Gesellschaft (DOG) ?German Ophthalmologist Society? Since 2015
• – Board Member 2008 – 2014
• – Treasurer Since 2014
• – First Vice President 2015/2016
• – President 2016/2017
• Kommission für Refraktive Chirurgie (KRC) ?Commission for Refractive Surgery?Since 1999
• – Vice Chairman 2006 – 2010
• – Chairman Since 2010
• Vereinigung Ophthalmologischer Lehrstuhlinhaber e.V. (VOL) ?Association of
• Ophthalmologic Chairholders?Since 2011
• – Treasurer Since 2012
• Berufsverband der Augenärzte (BVA) ?Professional Association of Ophthalmologists? Since 1989
• Deutschsprachige Gesellschaft für Intraokularlinsen-Implantation, Interventionelle &
• Refraktive Chirurgie (DGII) ?German-speaking Society for Intraocular Implantation,
• Intervention and Refractive Surgery?
• Since 1990
• – Board Member (DGII)  2005 – 2016
• – President (DGII)  2008 – 2012
• – Vice President  (DGII) 2012 – 2016
• American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (ASCRS) Since 1992
• Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) Since 1993
• International Society of Refractive Surgery (ISRS) Since 1994
• American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO)  Since 1995
• – Refractive Surgery Interest Group Since 1996
• European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons (ESCRS), (former EIIC) Since 1989
• – Co-opted Member of the Board 1997 – 2013
• – Board Member Since 2013
• – Treasure  Since 2017
• – Member of the Publications Committee of the ESCRS 1997- 2013
• – Chair of the Publications Committee Since 2013
• – Member of the Research Committee Since 2012
• International Intraocular Implant Club (IIIC) Since 1995
• – Secretary 2014 – 2016
• – Treasurer 2016 – 2018
• Vereinigung Rhein-Mainischer Augenärzte ?Association of German Rhine-Main
• Ophthalmologists?Since 1995
• – President Since 2013
• Baylor College of Medicine Alumni Since 1996
• Kontrollkommissionen for the Institut für medizinische und pharmazeutische
• Prüfungsfragen ?Monitoring Commission for the Institute for Medicine and
• Pharmaceutical Examinations?Since 2015
• Frankfurter Medizinische Gesellschaft (FMG) Since 2007
• – Member of the Advisory BoardSince 2017
• Publications (IF = 424.6)
• Original Articles 222 Case Reports 25
• Reviews 35 Books 14
• Editorials 99 Chapters 138
• Editorships
• Since 2014 Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery – Editor
• 1997-2013 Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery – Associate Editor
• Since 2006 Der Ophthalmologe – Associate Editor
• Since 2009 Klinische Monatsblätter für Augenheilkunde – Focal Topic Editor
• Since 2016 American Journal of Ophthalmology – ad hoc Associate Editor Editorial Board
• American Journal of Ophthalmology Since 2016
• Graefe’s Archive of Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology Since 2000
• Ophthalmologica 2007-2014
• Scientific Reviewer Activities – Journals (past & present, selection)
•  zcta Ophthalmologica Scandinavica
•  American Journal of Ophthalmology
•  Archives of Ophthalmology
•  Asia-Pacific Journal of Ophthalmology
•  British Journal of Ophthalmology
•  BMC Ophthalmology
•  Comprehensive Ophthalmology Update
•  Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology
•  Cornea
•  Current Eye Research
•  Der Anaesthesist
•  Der Ophthalmologe
•  Dove: Clinical Ophthalmology
•  European Journal of Implant & Refractive
• Surgery
•  European Journal of Ophthalmology
•  European Journal of Trauma and
• mergency Surgery
•  Expert Review of Ophthalmology
• EYE
• Graefe’s Archive of Clinical and Experimental
• Ophthalmology
• Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science
• Journal of Biophotonics
• Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery
• Journal of Ocular Pharmacology and
• Therapeutics
• Journal of Ophthalmology
• Journal of Optometry
• Journal of Refractive Surgery
• Klinische Monatsblätter für Augenheilkunde
• Middle East African Journal of Ophthalmology
• Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics
• Ophthalmo-Chirurgie
• Ophthalmologica
• Ophthalmology
• Saudi Medical Journal
• Survey of Ophthalmology
• Scientific Reviewer Activities – Funding Bodies
• Assessment for the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG (German Research Foundation)
• Research Grant Applications & Major Research Instrumentation (since 2007)
• Assessment for the “Research Strategy Decision of the Fund 2000 – 2003, Helmholtz
• Association”
• Assessment for the “Environmental Research Leipzig-Halle GmbH” Ministry of Culture of
• Saxony-Anhalt (2003)
• Assessment for the “DOG Research Support for Young Scientists” (2004)
• DIOmed publisher, Patient Education (since 2005)
• Assessment for the “Jubilee Fund of the Austrian National Bank” (since 2010)
• Assessment for the Julius Springer Prize for Ophthalmology (2008, 2012)
• Scientific Organiser Activities – Scientific Meetings
• DGII Annual Meeting (Programme Committee) since 1997
• DOG Annual Meeting (Programme Committee) since 1999
• ESCRS Annual Congress (Programme Committee) since 2000
• Honors and Awards
• Best Paper of Session from ASCRS 1994
• First Prize of the Festival (co-author) from ESCRS 1994
• Best Paper of Session (co-author) from ASCRS 1995
• Goar Award (co-author) from Baylor Alumni Meeting, Houston, TX / USA 1996
• DOG Research Award – total: 25,000 DM 1996
• Kiewiet de Jonge Medal (ESCRS) 2000
• DOG Research Award (jointly with Dr. J. Bühren)- Total: $ 50,000 2001
• DOG Leonhard Klein Award – Total: € 7,500 2002
• Achievement Award from the AAO 2002
• Cataract & Refractive Surgery Today – Selection as one of the Top 50 opinion leaders 2005-6
• Kiewiet de Jonge Medal (Coauthor) from ESCRS 2005
• 3rd Prize for Educational Value – ESCRS / Alcon Annual Video Festival 2005
• R.M.O. Meeting, Zermatt – Video Winner 2006
• DOG Sicca Research Award – total: € 2,500 2007
• Senior Achievement Award – For many years of distinguished service in programs of the
• Society from the Board of Trustees, American Academy of Ophthalmology
• 2009
• FOCUS doctors list 2010 – Expert in refractive surgery and cataract choice- Top doctors 2010
• DOC Gold Medal 2010
• Prize for Extraordinary Commitment in Teaching 2013
• DOC Silver Medal 2014
• Funded Research
• Principle Investigator: A multicentre clinical investigation of the Akreos Advanced
• Optic Micro Incision lens, MI60, posterior chamber IOL after microincision cataract
• surgery
• 2007 – 2009
• Principle Investigator: A randomized, single-masked monocular study to evaluate the
• safety and effectiveness of the Akreos toric IOL when used to correct primary aphakia
• with the reduction of astigmatism
• 2008 – 2013
• Principle Investigator: Prospective, randomized, double-masked clinical evaluation of
• objective and subjective accommodation after cataract surgery and implantation of an
• accommodating intraocular lens
• Since 2009
• Principle Investigator: Prospective evaluation of a toric sulcus fixed additive for
• correction of residual astigmatism after cataract surgery [Prospektive Evaluation
• torischer sulcusfixierter additiver Intraokularlinsen zur Korrektur von residualen
• Astigmatismen nach Kataraktoperation]
• Since 2009
• Principle Investigator: Prospective clinical study to evaluate efficacy of ICOLENSTM,
• a bifocal corneal implant to treat presbyopia
• Since 2010
• Principle Investigator: A prospective pilot clinical study of the AcrySof IQ ReSTOR
• multifocal toric IOL
• 2011 – 2012
• Principle Investigator: Visual Characteristics of Patients with AMD and Cataract
• 2012
• Principle Investigator: Clinical trial for the assessment of the TECHNIS® 1-piece
• multifocal intraocular model series ZMT [Klinische Studie zur Beurteilung der
• TECNIS® 1-Piece Multifokal Torischen Intraokularlinse, Modell Serie ZMT]
• 2012 – 2013
• Principle Investigator: Clinical outcomes after implantation of the AcrySof Restor +2,5
• multifocal intraocular lens (MIOL) in the dominant eye and randomization of the
• AcrySof Restor +2,5D or +3 D in the fellow eye.
• 2012 – 2013
• Principle Investigator: A Multicenter, Randomized, Controlled Study of Safety and
• Effectiveness of Acrysof IQ ReSTOR +8.0D Multifocal IOL in Comparison to
• ACRYSOF IQ Monofocal IOL in subjects with Age-Related Macular Degeneration and
• Cataract (C-11-039)
• 2012 – 2013
• Principle Investigator: Long Term Safety Follow-up for Subjects Previously Implanted
• with the AcrySof® CachetTM Phakic Lens in Clinical Studies C-02-23, C-02-40, C-03-
• 21 and C-05-57
• 2012 – 2016
• Principle Investigator: Improvement of visual acuity with presbyopia through
• aspherical multifocal excimer surgery by means of LASIK [Verbesserung der
• Lesesehschärfe bei Presbyopie durch asphärische multifokale Excimerchirurgie
• mittels LASIK]
• Since 2012
• Principle Investigator: Prospective study to evaluate the visual outcome, cylinder
• correction and patient satisfaction after implantation of Lisa Tri Toric 939MP
• Intraocular lenses (VICTORI)
• Since 2013
• Principle Investigator: Review and evaluation of the functional visual results after
• implantation of a multifocal intraocular Lentis Mplus® X [Überprüfung und
• Evaluierung der funktionellen Sehergebnisse nach Implantation der multifokalen
• Intraokularlinse LENTIS® Mplus X]
• Since 2013
• Principle Investigator: Clinical Evaluation of the HOYA Vivinex IOL – The purpose of
• this clinical trial is to evaluate the clinical acceptability of the HOYA Vivinix IOL
• compared to the Alcon AcrySof IOL
• Since 2014
• Principle Investigator: A Controlled Evaluation of the Safety and Efficacy of LASIK
• with Cross-linking Performed with the KXL System and VibeX Xtra (Riboflavin
• Ophthalmic Solution) Compared to LASIK Alone for High Myopia and Myopic
• Astigmatism [Kontrollierte Evaluation der Sicherheit und Effektivität von Laser in situ
• Keratomileusis (LASIK) zur Korrektur von myopie und myopem Astigmatismus]
• Since 2014
• Investigator: Visual Performance of patients bilaterally implanted with the TENIS
• Symfony IOL
• 2014-2015
• Principle Investigator: Prospective randomized clinical study comparing an
• intraocular lens with extended depth of focus vs a regular monofocal intraocular lens
• [Prospektiv randomisierte klinische Studie zum Vergleich einer Intraokularlinse mit
• erweitertem Tiefenschärfentiefebereich mit einer regulären monofokalen
• Intraokularlinse] (ASPHINOVA)
• 2015
• Principle Investigator: Investigation of ACRYSOF ® IQ PanOptix™ Presbyopia
• Correcting IOL Model TFNT00
• Since 2016
• Principle Investigator (Germany): PREMED: PREvention of Macula EDema after
• cataract surgery [PREMED: von Makulaödemen nach Katarakt OP]
• 2016
• Study Groups
• Clinical and experimental studies on cataracts, IOL, corneas, optical quality, refractive surgery,
• glaucoma and the retina.