Ophthalmologist Stefan Schrader appointed

Prof. Dr. Dr. Stefan Schrader has been appointed Professor of Ophthalmology at the Department of Human Medicine. He is also Director of the University Clinic for Ophthalmology at the Pius-Hospital Oldenburg.

Previously Schrader was senior consultant at the Clinic for Ophthalmology at the University Hospital Düsseldorf, where he also held a Lichtenberg-endowed Chair from 2014. Schrader studied human medicine at the University of Lübeck and completed his MD thesis there in 2005. He was a visiting researcher at University College London (UK), where he also earned the degree “Doctor of Philosophy” (PhD). In 2012 Schrader became a consultant in Düsseldorf and in 2013 he earned his Habilitation in Ophthalmology at the medical faculty. He was head of the clinical focus area of corneal diseases there from 2016. Schrader researches and treats diseases of the eye surface. His speciality is corneal transplantations and recon-
structions of the ocular surface as well as surgical procedures to the retina and vitreous body of the eye.