Oliver Findl, MD, MBA, FEBO
Professor of Ophthalmology and Chair of the Department of Ophthalmology at Hanusch Hospital, Vienna, Austria
Lecture: “The Flow of Cataract Surgery”
Oliver Findl is Professor of Ophthalmology and Chair of the Department of Ophthalmology at Hanusch Hospital, Vienna, Austria. He is the founder and head of the Vienna Institute for Research in Ocular Surgery (VIROS).
After completing a research fellowship at Children’s Hospital in Boston, he undertook his residency and an anterior segment surgery fellowship at the Medical University of Vienna. He subsequently served for several years as a Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon at Moorfields Eye Hospital, London.
His research focuses on optical biometry, presbyopia-correcting intraocular lenses, posterior capsule opacification, pathogenesis of myopia and intra-operative OCT use in vitreoretinal surgery.
He has authored more than 400 articles in international peer-reviewed journals, which have been cited more than 25,000 times and have resulted in an h-index of 87. He was President of the ESCRS in 2022 to 2023, and is Treasurer of the Austrian Ophthalmological Society since 2010. Among numerous invited lectures, he delivered the Lim Lecture at APACRS in 2016 and the Binkhorst Lecture at ASCRS in 2018.