Klara Landau

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Klara Landau (born July 20, 1953 in Prague as Klára Finkelová) is a Swiss ophthalmologist and former director of the University Eye Clinic in Zurich.

Life and education

Klara Landau came in 1953 as the daughter of the lawyer Zoltán Finkel (born May 15, 1910 in Humenné , Slovakia ; died September 4, 1997 in Zurich ) and his wife, the engineer Bohumila Ruth Finkel, née. Rosenzweig (born August 3, 1919 in  Krucemburk , Bohemia ; died December 3, 2018 in Zurich), to the world. She grew up in Prague (former Czechoslovakia ) until 1967 . From 1967 to 1969 she attended a Russian and a German grammar school in Berlin in what was then the German Democratic Republic (GDR). In the wake of the Prague Springher family managed to leave Czechoslovakia in the summer of 1969 and emigrate to Switzerland . Here Klara Landau first attended the Cantonal School in Glarus and from 1970 to 1972 the Higher Daughter School of the City of Zurich . From 1972 to 1978 she studied medicine at the University of Zurich , where she received her doctorate in 1979 with a thesis on "Disorders of calcium metabolism in patients with sarcoid ". She then specialized in ophthalmology and passed the specialist examinations of the Board of the Scientific Council of the Israel Medical Association in 1987 and 1988. In 1992 she acquired the Swiss specialist title for ophthalmology and ophthalmic surgery . 1998 habilitation they are at the University of Zurich and was appointed in October 2005 to the chair of ophthalmology.

Professional career

After years of apprenticeship in Switzerland in anesthesiology , forensic medicine , neurosurgery and briefly ophthalmology, Klara Landau worked from 1983 to 1988 as an assistant doctor at the eye clinic of the Kaplan Hospital in Rehovot , Israel . From 1989 to 1990 she worked at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center and from 1990 to 1991 as Assistant Clinical Professor at the School of Optometry at the University of California, Berkeley . In May 1991 she began to work at the eye clinic of the University Hospital Zurich as a senior physician and head of the department for neuro- ophthalmology and strabismus , and in 1996 she became the chief physician . From April 2002 to September 2005 Klara Landau was director ad interim of the eye clinic before she was appointed professor for ophthalmology and director in October 2005 . She headed the eye clinic of the University Hospital Zurich until her retirement in July 2018. Due to the still noticeable underrepresentation of women at the management level of the University Hospital Zurich, she suggested creating an equality body. Klara Landau has been a part-time delegate for further medical training and equality since August 2018.

Research priorities

Klara Landau's main research areas include:

  • Ophthalmic manifestations of neurofibromatosis
  • Ischemic optic neuropathy
  • Correlation between perimetry and imaging in the visual pathway
  • Use of modern oculomotor procedures in strabology
  • Altitude medicine and ophthalmology

further activities

Klara Landau was and is a member of numerous professional societies and is involved in her field in a variety of ways. From 2007 to 2015 she was a board member of the Swiss Ophthalmological Society (SOG) and its president from 2011 to 2013. From 2005 to 2014 she was General Secretary of the European Neuro-Ophthalmology Society (EUNOS) and between 2015 and 2019 she was its President. From 1994 to 2001 Klara Landau was on the editorial board of the Swiss Medical Weekly and from 1997 to 2016 a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Neuro-Ophthalmology. From 2002 to 2018 Klara Landau was President of the Albert Bruppacher Foundation for the Promotion of Research at the University Eye Clinic in Zurich, and has been a member of the Board of Trustees since 2018. She is involved with Medical Women Switzerland, was on the promotion committee of the Medical Faculty from 2005 to 2011 and from 2010 to 2018 Vice President of the Equal Opportunities Commission of the University of Zurich. For the 150th anniversary of the Zurich University Eye Clinic, she published a book on the past and present of the clinic. Klara Landau has been committed to the Swiss association “Light for the World” since 2014, and since 2018 as its president. She is also a board member of the international organization “Light for the World International”.

Awards

  • 1995 Fellow of the North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society (NANOS)
  • 2003 Invited international guest of the British Isles Neuro-Ophthalmology Club (BINOC)
  • 2006 42nd elected member of the European Academy of Ophthalmology (EAO)
  • 2009 First Alfred Huber Lecture, European Neuro-Ophthalmology Society (EUNOS) Meeting, Lübeck, Germany
  • 2010 Recognition Award of the Alfred Vogt Foundation together with Martina Bösch and Daniel Barthelmes for the research work "Changes within the Eye at Very High Altitude - Medical Research Expedition to Mount Muztagh Ata"
  • 2012 7th Michael Sanders Lecture, Birmingham Neuro-Ophthalmology Course, Birmingham, UK
  • 2013 Visiting Fellow of Brasenose College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
  • 2015 Named lecture at the University of Utah
  • 2015 Peter Eustace Lecture, Irish College of Ophthalmologists, Dublin, Ireland
  • 2018 NANOS Merit Award
  • 2019 Elfriede Aulhorn Lecture, German Ophthalmological Society, Berlin

Publications (selection)

  • with Yasargil MG: Ocular fundus in Neurofibromatosis type 2. Brit J Ophthalmol 1993; 77: 646-649.
  • with Künzle Ch., Weissert M., Roulet E., Bode H., Schefer S., Huisman Th., Boltshauser E .: Follow-Up of optic pathway gliomas in children with Neurofibromatosis type 1. Neuropediatrics 1994; 25: 295- 300
  • with Winterkorn JMS, Mailloux LU, Vetter W., Napolitano B .: 24-hour blood pressure monitoring in Anterior Ischemic Optic Neuropathy. Arch Ophthalmol 1996; 114: 570-575.
  • with Djahanschahi Bajka J., Kirchschläger BM: Topless optic discs in children of mothers with type 1 Diabetes mellitus. Am J Ophthalmol 1998; 125: 605-611.
  • with Kurz-Levin M .: A comparison of imaging techniques for diagnosing drusen of the optic nerve head. Arch Ophthalmol, 1999; 117: 1045-1049.
  • with Bösch MM, Boltshauser E., Harpes P., Landau K .: Ophthalmological findings and long-term course in patients with neurofibromatosis type 2. Am J Ophthalmol, 2006; 141: 1068-1077.
  • with Bösch MM, Barthelmes D., Merz TM, Bloch KE, Turk AJ, Hefti U., Sutter FKP, Maggiorini M., Wirth MG, Schoch OD, Landau K .: High incidence of optic disc swelling at very high altitudes. Arch Ophthalmol, 2008; 126: 644-650.
  • with Schuknecht B., Sturm V., Huisman TA: Tolosa-Hunt syndrome: MR imaging features in 15 patients with 20 episodes of painful ophthalmoplegia. Eur J Radiol; 2009; 69: 445-53.
  • with Bösch MM, Barthelmes D., Merz TM, Truffer F., Knecht PB, Petrig B., Bloch KE, Hefti U., Schubiger G .: Intraocular pressure during a very high altitude climb. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci, 2010; 51: 1609-1613.
  • with Knecht PB, Menghini M., Bachmann LM, Baumgartner RW: The Ocular Pulse Amplitude as a Non-Invasive Parameter for Carotid Artery Stenosis Screening: A Test Accuracy Study. Ophthalmology; 2012; 119 (6): 1244-1249.
  • with Weber KP, Rosengren SM, Michels R., Sturm V., Straumann D .: Single motor unit activity in human extraocular muscles during the vestibule-ocular reflex. J Physiol; 2012; 590; 3091-3101.
  • with Weber KP, Rappoport D., Dysli M., Schmückle Meier T., Barks GB, Bockisch CJ, MacDougall HG: Strabismus Measurements with Novel Video Goggles. Ophthalmology 2017; 124: 1849-56.

Individual evidence

  1. Landau Klara: Neurofibromatosis type 2 and the visual system. Habilitation thesis. Zurich 1997.
  2. CV Klara Landau on the international website of the University Hospital Zurich
  3. More doctors on the executive floor: "It would be a big mistake not to use this innovation pool." Interview on the website of the Federal Office of Public Health (BAG).
  4. ^ Announcement on the website of the University Hospital Zurich
  5. Klara Landau (ed.): 150 Years of the University Eye Clinic. ISBN 978-3-033-03471-6 . Zurich 2012. Online excerpt
  6. ^ Board of Directors of Light for the World
  7. ^ Trustees of Light for the World .
  8. ^ Website of the Alfred Vogt Foundation
  9. ^ Communication from the University of Zurich
  10. Elfriede Aulhorn Lecture at the DOG Congress 2019