Burkhard Dick is a German ophthalmologist who has specialized in refractive and cataract surgery. With his many contributions to the scientific literature on this topic, he is considered one of the pioneers of employing the femtosecond laser in cataract surgery. In the "Power List 2018" ranking of the world's most influential ophthalmologists by the publication The Ophthalmologist, Burkhard Dick was listed among the Top 20.
Biography
Dick attended high school in his hometown of Brake and graduated in 1983. After studying medicine at University of Giessen, he began his specialization as an eye surgeon. As a board certified ophthalmologist, Dick in 1996 joined the eye hospital of the University of Mainz where he became a full professor in 2003. In 2006, Dick was appointed chair of the department of ophthalmology at the University of Bochum and director of the University Eye Clinic. He turned the clinic into one of the surgical centers with the highest number of cataract patients treated with the femtosecond laser, a new technology which has the potential to improve the precision of cataract surgery which is the most frequent surgical intervention in North America and Europe. Burkhard Dick is currently president of the German Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery.
Scientific contributions
Dick has published a large number of scientific articles and book chapters on various issues in eye surgery. He has informed the medical community about his experience with the femtosecond laser in special cases like patients with Marfan syndrome, with advanced cataracts, in pediatric cataracts and in individuals who had undergone corneal refractive surgery or are suffering from corneal disease.
with Oliver Schwenn: Viscoelastics in Ophthalmic Surgery. Springer, Heidelberg 2000,.
with T. Schultz: Primary posterior laser-assisted capsulotomy. In: Journal of Refractive Surgery. 30, 2014,128–133.
with T. Schultz: Laser-assisted cataract surgery in small pupils using mechanical dilation devices. In: Journal of Refractive Surgery. 29, 2013, 858–862.
with I. Conrad-Hengerer, F. H. Hengerer, T. Schultz: Effect of femtosecond laser fragmentation on effective phacoemulsification time in cataract surgery. In: Journal of Rrefractive Surgery. 28,2012,879–883.
