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Associate Professor Igor Koz\u00e1k <\/strong>(born in 1971, graduated in 1995) is an expert in the treatment of retinal diseases, diseases of the posterior segment of the eye and macular degeneration. His top career was launched by his successful studies at the UPJ\u0160 Faculty of Medicine in Ko\u0161ice. After graduating in General Medicine, he first worked as an assistant professor at the Clinic of Ophthalmology of the UPJ\u0160 Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty Hospital and Polyclinic in Ko\u0161ice. During his PhD studies, in cooperation with the Clinic of Surgery of the University of Veterinary Medicine, he devoted himself to chemical injuries of the eye and the possibilities of their surgical treatment. During his studies he published articles in international journals in the field of refractive surgery and corneal regeneration.

Shortly after defending his degree thesis, he went to the Shiley Eye Center at the University of California in San Diego, USA, for specialty training in diseases and surgical treatment, and after completing another fellowship, he joined the University staff.\u00a0 He introduced topical anaesthesia for intravitreal injections and was the first author to describe retinal degenerative changes, the so-called neuroretina degeneration in immunosuppressed patients. He pioneered retinal diseases and intraocular inflammation, laser treatment in ophthalmology, imaging methods and retinal pharmacology (drug delivery), and is credited with establishing retinal navigation laser therapy as one of the most progressive laser methods today. Subsequently, he worked at the Royal Eye Hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where he oversaw the specialty training of board-certified physicians. Currently, Associate Professor Koz\u00e1k works as the senior Eye Center specialist at Moorfields Eye Hospital in the United Arab Emirates and, in addition to treating patients, is involved in research into diabetic retinopathy.

Assoc. Prof. MUDr. Igor Koz\u00e1k, PhD, MAS actively lectures at international congresses. He is on the editorial boards of several ophthalmology journals, a reviewer of over 60 scientific journals, and a reviewer of scientific grants from many institutions, including the National Institutes of Health. He is the author of six books and eight chapters in leading textbooks in ophthalmology. In total, he has published two hundred articles in ophthalmology journals worldwide, including two papers in Nature. He is an proponent of the close link among clinical work, academic medicine, and research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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