Robert Rejdak

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About Robert Rejdak

Patient care: Medical and surgical retina; Vitrectomy; Cataract surgery; Ocular trauma; Rare eye diseases Professor and Chairman, Chair and Department of General and Pediatric Ophthalmology, Medical University of Lublin, Poland. Since 2004, Robert Rejdak, MD, PhD has been a senior researcher and consultant in the Medical Research Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. He is also Trainings Director at the European School for Advanced Studies in Ophthalmology (ESASO) and a member of ophthalmology expert teams such as the Accreditation Team of the Ministry of Health and the Medicine Implementation Team for Diabetic Macular Degeneration. Professor Rejdak was appointed associate professor in 2013 and full professor in 2016. Since 2020, he also has been Editor-in-Chief and member of the Editorial Board of the international Ophthalmology Journal and editor of a series of seven monographs entitled “Biblioteka Okulisty Praktyka” [“The library of a practitioner ophthalmologist”]. Professor Rejdak specializes in cataract, retina, and vitreoretinal surgery, and has conducted more than surgical interventions, including over cataract and vitrectomy surgeries. For several years Professor Rejdak has been providing courses in vitreoretinal surgery in Poland (Lublin and Kraków) and abroad (Frankfurt am Main, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Bahrain). He also conducted the first Scharioth Macula Lens implantation and first hybrid vitrectomy in Poland. Since Professor Rejdak has cooperated with the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, where, under the supervision of Professor Anselm Jünemann, he became acquainted with the techniques of the histology and pathology of the eye and underwent training in cataract and vitreoretinal surgery. In 2017, the General Ophthalmology Clinic in Lublin, led by Professor Rejdak, was included in the European Reference Network for Rare Diseases of the Eye (EU ERN-EYE) as the only ophthalmological center in Poland.