Revised 12-02-06
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| Ophthalmology diagnoses and treats diseases in the visual system including; optical imaging in the dioptric apparatus of the eye, sensing of the image and primary image processing in the retina, secondary image processing in the brain and perception in the visual cortex of the brain, and additionally in all the support tissues for these functions. |
The ophthalmology unit at the Department of
Neuroscience is responsible for the academic activity of ophthalmology at
Uppsala university. The academic activity is directly associated with the
ophthalmology hospital care at the
Ophthalmology
clinic in the Neurodivision, Akademiska
sjukhuset.
History
The ophthalmology unit was founded as the Dept. of Ophthalmology by professor Alvar Gullstrand
who was the first chair of ophthalmology at Uppsala University, appointed in 1894. Allvar Gullstrand
was in 1911 awarded the Noble prize in medicine and physiology for his work on
the optics of the eye. Allvar Gullstrand, in 1914 was appointed a personal
professorship in physical and physiological optics. Professor emeritus Albert Alm,
in close collaboration with the Uppsala company Pharmacia Ophthalmics, directed
the clinical development of
latanoprost, the first molecule in a new generation of drugs for reduction of
intraocular pressure, that now is a market leader in many parts of the world.
List of previous professors of ophthalmology at Uppsala university
Links
- Get a user account
- Dept of neuroscience, Uppsala university
- Akademiska sjukhuset
- Ophthalmology, Neurodivision, Akademiska sjukhuset
- Eye and vision, research network
- Pascal Rol Foundation
- International Commission for Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP)
- SPIE, BiOS, Ophthalmic Technologies
News
2012-01-24 (Per Söderberg)
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Zhaohua Yu was registered as a PhD-student in Ophthalmology at
Uppsala University. on a project entitled Damage mechanism for near-infrared radiation induced cataract |
2012-01-13 Great results in the student evaluation of the
clinical teaching of ophthalmology, Klinik kurt, spring term 2011!
(Per Söderberg)
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Ophthalmology climbed from a 6th position to a 3rd position in clinical teaching
after the spring term student evaluation. Many thanks especially to
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2011-12-02 (Per Söderberg) PhD students at Ophthalmology, Uppsala awarded the two prizes for best presentation in the free paper sessions at the section of Ophthalmology, Swedish Society of Medicine, meeting 2011
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Nooshin Talebizadeh, MD, PhD-student Molecular Biology of Apoptosis in Rat Lens After In Vivo Exposure to UVR-300 nm radiation, Expression of Caspase-3 Protein. |
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Hanna Åkerblom, MD, PhD-student Premature birth impacts on the photoreceptor function in children at school age. |
2011-05-16 (Per Söderberg)
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Camilla Sandberg-Melin was registered as a PhD-student in Ophthalmology at
Uppsala University. on a project entitled Are measurements of the rim area possible to use for clinical follow up of glaucoma? |
Research
The ophthalmology unit has research projects in several of the subspecialities
of ophthalmology with a focus on clinical glaucoma research, pediatric
ophthalmology, cataract surgery, vitreoretinal surgery, diagnosis and medical
treatment of retinal disease, and interaction of ultraviolett, visible and
infrared radiation and the eye.
The methodology spans from experimental research in the Gullstrand lab to applied
clinical research in the ophthalmology clinic at Akademiska
sjukhuset, with collaborations in USA, Germany and China.
Teaching
The ophthalmology unit is responsible for the undergraduate teaching of
ophthalmology to:
- The MD-program, including 2 courses per year of totally around 200
students
- The Biomedicine program including 1 kurs per year of totally 50
students
The unit is also responsible for teaching
- Physiological optics
- Pediatric ophthalmology
- Corenal disease
in the Swedish national residency program