Gerd Auffarth

Professor and Chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology, University of Heidelberg; and Director of the International Vision Correction Research Centre, David J. Apple International Laboratory for Ocular Pathology, Germany.

Content by Gerd Auffarth:

Business & Profession Business and Innovation

From Too Few Drops to DSLT

04/14/2022 | Gerd Auffarth

Is there a more efficient approach to treat glaucoma patients who cannot maintain eye drop adherence?

Business & Profession Refractive

Is Better the Enemy of Good?

10/10/2014 | Gerd Auffarth, Florian Kretz

New intraocular lenses offer extended depth of focus, but this can come at a cost: glares, halos and comets. Can these be designed away?

Subspecialties Cataract

A Brief History of IOL Materials

05/19/2014 | Florian Kretz, Sibylle Scholtz, Gerd Auffarth

The development and use of intraocular lenses has been a major ophthalmic success story. Here, we describe some of the key contributions and the materials that revolutionized cataract treatment.