Curriculum vitae Josef FLAMMER, MD, *21.4.48

Professor and Head, Department of Ophthalmology, University Basel (Switzerland)

1968Medical school at the Universities of Fribourg and Berne

1975M.D. thesis: Ultrastructural morphology of the human autonomic nervous system

1976-77Medical Resident at the Department of Internal Medicine, University of Berne

1978-79Resident in the Department of Ophthalmology, Inselspital, University of Berne

1980Resident in the Department of Neurology, Inselspital, University of Berne

1981-82Clinical Research Fellow in the Department of Ophthalmology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

1983Resident in the Department of Ophthalmology, University of Berne

1984-87Head Physician at the Department of Ophthalmology, University of Berne

1985PD thesis:Threshold fluctuation in computer assisted perimetry

since 1987Prof. and Head of Department of Ophthalmology, University of Basel

1995-1996Dean of the faculty of medicine, University of Basel

Awards and honors:

1984International Chibret Award, Helsinki (Finland)

1985Alfred Vogt Award, St. Moritz (Switzerland)
1986Invited Professor University of Harbin (China)
1986Visiting Professor Dalhousie University Halifax (Canada)
1990Honorary Member and Medal of the Sicilian Ophthalmological Society, Messina (Italy)
1990Promotion award Vogt Foundation, Crans Montana (Switzerland)
1991Honorary guest of the Argentinian Ophthalmological Society, Buenos Aires (Argentina)

1992Alcon Award, Fort Worth, Texas (USA)
1993Invited Professor of the University of California, San Francisco (USA)

1996Honorary guest of the Japanese Glaucoma Society, Tokyo (Japan)
1996Honorary guest Meeting of the Nobel Prize Laureates, Lindau (Germany)

2001Montgomery Award, Dublin (Ireland)

2002William MacKenzie Award, Glasgow (Scotland)

2002Poster award, SOG (Swiss Ophthalmological Society) Luzern (Switzerland)
2003Invited Professor University of Varna (Bulgaria)

2003Honorary member of the Czech Glaucoma Society, Prague (Czechoslovakia) Invited Professor

2003Honorary guest Meeting of the Nobel Prize Laureates, Lindau (Germany)

2004Invited Professor Dalhousie University, Halifax (Canada)

2004Medal of the University of Helsinki (Finland)

Editorial boards (former and actual):Patents:

- European Journal of Ophthalmology1986Method to measure lens opacity

- Graefe's Archive of Ophthalmology1999Method to measure OBF with the help of

- Journal of Glaucomatemperature measurement

- International Glaucoma Review2001Diagnosis on glaucoma based on gene

- Search for Glaucomaexpression of lymphocytes

- Therapeutische Umschau

- Focus on Glaucoma