Burkhard Dick

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Burkhard Dick (* 1963 in Brake (Unterweser) ) is a German ophthalmologist and professor for ophthalmology at the Ruhr University in Bochum . Dick was one of the first ophthalmic surgeons to use femtosecond laser technology for cataract surgery in Germany. In the "Power List" of The Ophthalmologist magazine for 2018, Dick is ranked among the twenty most influential ophthalmologists worldwide, and in 2020 he is listed in the "Top 100" in the same magazine.

Life and education

Dick went to school in Brake and graduated from high school in 1983. He studied medicine at the University of Giessen from 1983 to 1990 and, after passing the state examination, began further training in ophthalmology at the Giessen University Eye Clinic. After being recognized as a specialist, he moved to the Mainz University Eye Clinic in 1996 , where he became senior physician in charge; In 2003, Dick was appointed professor.

In 2006 he was appointed to the chair for ophthalmology at the Ruhr University in Bochum .

He is the head of the eye clinic at the Knappschaftskrankenhaus Bochum-Langendreer . The German-speaking Society of Intraocular Lens Implantation , Interventional and Refractive Surgery (DGII) was Burkhard Dick 2016-2020 as president before. He is the Chairman of the Cataract Surgery Committee of the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO). In the International Society of Refractive Surgery (ISRS) he is a representative of Germany on the international advisory board. Dick is listed as one of the highest rated doctors in his specialty (surgical treatment of cataracts and surgical treatment of ametropia) on the list of doctors in Focus magazine in 2016.

Scientific and medical work

Dick specialized in the treatment of cataracts as well as in refractive surgery and began as one of the first German surgeons to use the femtosecond laser, which is already used successfully in other ophthalmic surgical areas, in cataract surgery. This method, which is considered to be more precise than conventional surgical procedures in removing cataracts, was subsequently carried out on a large scale in the Bochum University Eye Clinic. The pretreatment with the femtosecond laser made it possible in many cases to dispense with the previously common use of ultrasound ( phacoemulsification ), which for some patient groups represents a gentler surgical procedure. In addition, the first experience reports on the promising use of the femtosecond laser in children with congenital cataracts, in a patient with Marfan's syndrome and in advanced (“intumescent”) lens opacities were published. Dick is (together with Tim Schultz and Ronald D. Gerste ) editor of the first scientific standard work published in 2018 on the use of the femtosecond laser in ophthalmology.

Honors

  • Leonard Klein Prize of the German Ophthalmological Society 2008
  • Gold medal of the German ophthalmic surgeons 2010
  • 2013 UK Ophthalmic Surgeons Choyce Award
  • Gold Medal Award from the Australian Society for Cataract and Refractive Surgery 2014
  • Acufocus Excellency Award for research into surgical correction of presbyopia in 2014
  • Waring Medal of the Journal of Refractive Surgery 2014
  • Visionary Award from the American-European Congress of Ophthalmic Surgery (AECOS) 2015
  • Kritzinger Memorial Award from the International Society of Refractive Surgery (ISRS) 2015
  • Antonio Scarpa Honorary Lecture of the Italian Ophthalmic Society (SOI) 2016
  • Patnaik Honorary Lecture 2016
  • 2016 American Academy of Ophthalmology Senior Achievement Award
  • American Academy of Ophthalmology Secretariat Award 2019

Memberships

Fonts

  • Burkhard Dick, Ronald D. Gerste , Tim Schultz: Femtosecond Laser in Ophthalmology. Thieme, New York 2018, ISBN 978-1-62623-236-5 .
  • HB Dick, M. Piovella, J. Vukich, S. Vilupuru, L. Lin: Prospective multicenter trial of a small-aperture intraocular lens in cataract surgery. In: J Cataract Refract Surg. 43 (7), Jul 2017, pp. 956-968.
  • HB Dick, T. Schultz, RD Barley: Single sick swallow does not make a summer: Femtosecond laser-assisted cataract surgery versus standard phacoemulsification. In: J Cataract Refract Surg. 43 (5), May 2017, pp. 713–714.
  • HB Dick, T. Schultz: A Review of Laser-Assisted Versus Traditional Phacoemulsification Cataract Surgery. In: Ophthalmol Ther. 6 (1), Jun 2017, pp. 7-18.
  • with Y. Haeussler-Sinangin, D. Dahlhoff and T. Schultz: Clinical performance in continuous curvilinear capsulorhexis creation supported by a digital image guidance system. In: J Cataract Refract Surg. 43 (3), Mar 2017, pp. 348–352.
  • with M. Schojai, T. Schultz, Y. Haeussler-Sinangin and J. Boecker: Safety of femtosecond laser-assisted primary posterior capsulotomy immediately after cataract surgery. In: J Cataract Refract Surg. 43 (9), Sep 2017, pp. 1171-1176.
  • with T. Schultz: Interesting facts from cataract surgery. In: Clinical monthly sheets for ophthalmology. 234 (08), 2017, pp. 979-985.
  • Femtosecond Laser-Assisted Cataract Surgery: Current Status and Outlook. In: Clinical monthly sheets for ophthalmology. 233, August 2016, pp. 967-986.
  • with Federica Gualdi, Luca Gualdi u. a .: Femto Laser Cataract Surgery. Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishing, New Delhi 2014, ISBN 978-93-5090-989-8 .
  • Clinical and experimental studies on corneal tunnel incisions and the choice of intraocular lenses in cataract surgery. Shaker, Maastricht 1998, ISBN 3-8265-6969-5 .
  • with Oliver Schwenn: Viscoelastics: an overview; physicochemical properties and their practical importance for ophthalmic surgery. Springer, Heidelberg 1998, ISBN 3-540-65062-8 .
  • with Dieter Eisenmann, Ekkehard Fabian and Oliver Schwenn: Refractive cataract surgery with multifocal intraocular lenses. Springer, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-540-65778-9 .
  • with Oliver Schwenn: Viscoelastics in Ophthalmic Surgery. Springer, Heidelberg 2000, ISBN 3-540-67330-X .
  • with T. Schultz: Primary posterior laser-assisted capsulotomy. In: Journal of Refractive Surgery. 30, 2014, pp. 128-133.
  • with T. Schultz: Laser-assisted cataract surgery in small pupils using mechanical dilation devices. In: Journal of Refractive Surgery. 29, 2013, pp. 858-862.
  • with I. Conrad-Hengerer, FH Hengerer and T. Schultz: Effect of femtosecond laser fragmentation on effective phacoemulsification time in cataract surgery. In: Journal of Refractive Surgery. 28.2012, pp. 879-883.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ theophthalmologist.com
  2. ^ HB Dick, T. Schultz: On the way to zero phaco. In: Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery . 39, 2013, pp. 1440-1442.
  3. ↑ HB Dick, T. Schultz: Femtosecond laser-assisted cataract surgery in infants. In: Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery. 39, 2013, pp. 665-668.
  4. ↑ T. Schultz, E. Ezeanosike, HB Dick: Femtosecond laser-assisted cataract surgery in pediatric Marfan syndrome. In: Journal of Refractive Surgery. 29, 2013, pp. 650-652.
  5. ^ I. Conrad-Hengerer, FH Hengerer, SC Joachim, T. Schultz, HB Dick: Femtosecond laser-assisted cataract surgery in intumescent white cataracts. In: Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery. 40, 2014, pp. 44-50.
  6. ↑ Burkhard Dick, Ronald D. Gerste , Tim Schultz: Femtosecond Laser in Ophthalmology. Thieme, New York 2018, ISBN 978-1-62623-236-5 .
personal data
SURNAME Dick, Burkhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ophthalmologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Brake (Lower Weser)