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CURRICULUM VITAE
Nikolaos E. Bechrakis, MD
Professor of Ophthalmology, Chairman
Department of Ophthalmology,
Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria
Anichstr. 35, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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e-mail :

+43 512 504 / 23720
+43 512 504 / 23722
augenheilkunde@i-med.ac.at

Place and date of birth :
Nationality:

Bern / Switzerland, 22.11.1964
Greek and German

Medical school:
1982 - 1986

Medical faculty of the Universität des Saarlandes /Homburg, Germany

1986 – 1989 Medical faculty of the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
1991-1995:

Residency:Department of Ophthalmology (Chairman.: Prof. Dr. M.H. Foerster)
Universitätsklinikum Benjamin Franklin, Freie Universität Berlin

Fellowships:
1989:

Ophthalmic Pathology:

Professor W.R. Green, Wilmer Institute, Johns
Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore

1990:

Ophthalmic Pathology:

Professor W.R.Lee, Tennent Institute of
Ophthalmology, Glasgow, Scotland, U.K.

1995-1997 :

Anterior segment surgery / Cornea:
Retina (Medical / Surgical):
Ophthalmic Oncology:

Professor F. Hoffmann
Professor M.H. Foerster
Professor N. Bornfeld

Department of Ophthalmology, Universitätsklinikum Benjamin Franklin, Charité, Berlin
Hospital / Academic appointments :
1997

Consultant, Department of Ophthalmology, Charité, Berlin

2001

Privatdozent, (Assoc. Prof.) Department of Ophthalmology, Charité, Berlin

2005

Professor of Ophthalmology and Deputy Chairman,
Department of Ophthalmology, Charité, Berlin, Germany

2007

Appointment for the Chairman position of the Departments of Ophthalmology
at the Medical Universities of Schleswig-Holstein in Lübeck/ Germany and
Innsbruck/Austria; after decline of the appointment in Lübeck:

2008

Professor of Ophthalmology and Chairman, Department of Ophthalmology
Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria

Editorial board:
• Greek Annals of Ophthalmology
• Klinische Monatsblätter für Augenheilkunde
• Graefe´s Archive in Ophthalmology
• Ophthalmologe
• Spektrum der Augenheilkunde
Member:
• Austrian Ophthalmological Society
• American Academy of Ophthalmology
• European Ophthalmic Pathology Society
• German Ophthalmological Society
• Gonin-Club
• Hellenic Ophthalmological Society
Executive Board Member:
• Austrian Ophthalmological Society
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Director of the European Leadership Development Program (EuLDP)
of the European Society of Ophthalmology (SOE)

Prizes:
• Recipient of the 2003 Leonhard-Klein Prize of the German Science Foundation and
German Ophthalmological Society for the development of significant innovations in
ophthalmic microsurgery.
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3rd Prize of the 2003 Annual Research Competition (Charité, Germany)

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“Professor of the 8th term” (Innsbruck Medical University)

•

Axenfeld Prize (Co-author of K.-M. Kreusel at Klinische Monatsblätter für
Augenheilkunde)

Patent:

Ophthalmic Transilluminator

Surgery:

total (by 2.2012):
Vitreoretinal and intraocular tumor:
Lens:
Cornea:
Glaucoma:
Severe Eye Trauma:
Enucleation:
Other (laser, IVOM, lid, muscle, etc.)

Bibliography: (by 2.2012)
Peer reviewed journals:

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Books and other Monographs:
Invited speaker:

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Ophthalmological Societies of: USA, China, Japan, Greece,
Germany, Austria, France, Slovenia, Croatia, S. Korea

Organization of more than 50 scientific meetings / symposia