Alumni Profiles
Birhanu Yeshigeta Gelaw
Home Country: Ethopia
Fellowship Location: Wheaton Eye Clinic in Wheaton, Illinois, USA
Subspecialty: Glaucoma
Host and Supervisor: Prof. Richard G. Gieser
About my fellowship experience:
...This fellowship training gave me ample opportunities to upgrade my clinical knowledge/skills, my knowledge about technological advancement in medicine and its utilization, leadership skills and eye clinic management; and also to know the socio-cultural aspect of the United States of America and make networking with people and institutions of developed countries...
...The experience I got will have an immense positive impact in my personal knowledge and skills in the field, and be good clinician, leader and manager...
Chukai Huang
Home Country: P.R. China
Fellowship Location: Heidelberg, Germany
Subspecialty:
Host and Supervisor: Prof. Gerd U. Auffarth
About my fellowship experience:
...During the stay in Heidelberg, I spent most of time in the operation theater observing cataract surgery there...
...Meanwhile, I learnt many advanced cataract technique here, such as femto phaco, which is thought to be the future of cataract surgery. Other special technique is add on IOL, retro- pupil fixation IOL implantation and so on. The wonderful techniques are helpful, and I would like to use them when I return to China...
...During this stay, I also joined the special symposium of ophthalmology; there several wonderful lectures were arranged. I also attended some lecture about cataract...
...After commutating with the doctors there, I have more understanding of the different medical system and the different resident training system between China and Germany. I also introduced the situation of the development of ophthalmology in China to German friends, to help more people from outside to understand China well.
Dyachun Alexey
Home Country: Russia
Fellowship Location: Insel Spital in Bern, Switzerland
Subspecialty: Glaucoma
Host and Supervisor: Prof. Sebastian Wolf
About my fellowship experience:
...I’ve traced the entire path of the patient from the first moment when he comes to the doctor for help and before the operation and then when the patient goes home...
...I attend patients in the postoperative ward, together with the nurses involved in the of postoperative patients care and in the process of discharging them home. I’ve learned much about every single aspect of operations, the process of hospital and home care of the patients and follow up visits after eye surgery...
...I ask the doctors to teach me excellent to measure the eye pressure with Goldman tonometry, and when I return to Russia, I will be able to train our doctors, because we have a Goldmann tonometer...
...On weekends, I walk through the city; visit the various museums and exhibitions. I also visit such beautiful cities as Zurich, Lucerne and Basel, which I liked very much!...
Manescu Ana-Maria
Home Country: Romania
Fellowship Location: Ghent University Hospital in Ghent, Belgium
Subspecialty: Medical Retina
Host and Supervisor: Prof. Philippe Kestelyn
About my fellowship experience:
...I had the opportunity to deal with interesting topics such as vitreoretinal surgery or genetic retina presented by Prof. Dr. Christophe DeLaey and Prof. Dr. Bart Leroy. However, due to the fact that it is less probable to actually practice these when back in Romania, I focused on paraclinic investigations of the retina. I found an excellent mentor in Dr. Julie Dezaeytijd, who helped me a lot in understanding what Medical Retina is. She had sown me how to interpret an OCT and a FLUO, how to corelate them with the history of the patient, how to diagnose correctly and to manage the ocular disease...
... As a consequence I did some OCT by myself and also some color and red-free pictures of the eye fundus...
Rajendra Jadhav
Home Country: India
Fellowship Location: Helsinki, Finland
Subspecialty: Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus
Host and Supervisor: Prof. Tero Kivelä
About my fellowship experience:
...ICO Fellowship is truly a unique opportunity for an individual to upgrade his clinical knowledge and skills in a subspeciality...
...The process of clinical evaluation and discussing the cases with specialists helped me understand the basic clinical approach, differential diagnosis and the treatment modalities. One to one interactions with specialists/consultats on why the preferred a particular modality made me understand in a better way...
...I got many surgical tips, dos and don'ts during assisting the surgical procedures...
...Working with Prof. Kivelä was an excellent experience. His expert opinion and guidance helped me learn many pearls in the evaluation techniques, treatment modalities and the importance of meticulous close follow up of retinoblastoma cases...
...I am grateful and feel extremely honoured for having awarded me this prestigious International Council of Ophthalmology Fellowship. I appreciate the trust and faith shown in me for the said fellowship...
Roberto Jimenez Cuadra
Home Country: Costa Rica
Fellowship Location: Instituto Oftalmo Salud in Lima, Peru
Subspecialty: Cornea & External Diseases
Host and Supervisor: Prof. Luis Izquierdo Jr.
About my fellowship experience:
...I had the opportunity to get involved in clinical activities 5 times a week...
...I had contact with a lot of patients with different corneal and external pathologies and I learned to treat them medically and surgically as needed...
...I gave presenations about topics related to my subspeciality to ophthalmology residents in the institutes and in local congresses and meetings, I had the chance to present clinical cases for discussion...
...I also participated in research activities in the institute...
...My expectations were absolutely met. Prof. Luis Izquierdo is a great person, an excellent ophthalmologist and instructor...
Sheila Akinyi Marco
Home Country: Kenya
Fellowship Location: Edmonton, Canada
Subspecialty: Vitreo-Retinal Surgery
Host and Supervisor: Dr. Karim Damji
About my fellowship experience:
...In my fellowship, I was involved in running the glaucoma outpatient clinic, reviewing old and new cases of glaucoma, and in decision making for disease management. I was able to perform outpatient procedures like selective laser trabeculoplasty, laser peripheral iridotomy, and laser suturolysis...
...I was also able to write two research proposals, one of which I will present with a poster at ARVO in 2011...
...I was able to participate in Glaucoma rounds, journal clubs and even presented some research I had done in Kenya on "The Situation Analysis of Glaucoma Resources in Kenya...
