Portrait Christina Gerth-Kahlert

Christina Gerth-Kahlert
Prof. Dr. med.

Senior Physician, Department of Ophthalmology

Specialties

  • Pediatric Ophthalmology
  • Clinical ophthalmogenetics
  • Strabismus
Appointment

Contact

Tel. +41 44 255 49 40
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Other competencies

  • Rare diseases of the eye / The involvement of the eye in rare diseases.
  • Electrophysiology in ophthalmology and neurological diseases

Career

2021 Right to award doctorates, University of Zurich.
2020 Spec. Ophthalmic surgery
2019 Titular professorship, University of Zurich.
2015 Senior Attending Physician, Department of Ophthalmology of the USZ.
2013 Venia legendi, University of Zurich.
2011 Attending Physician, Department of Ophthalmology of the USZ.
2010 Habilitation and Venia legendi, University of Rostock.
2008 – 2011 Attending Physician, Department of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus, Eye Clinic of the University of Rostock.
2007 Fellowship (clinic): Pediatric Ophthalmology, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada.
2005 – 2006 Fellowship (research and clinical): Electrophysiology and Ocular Genetics, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada (Adviser: Dr. C. Westall, Dr. E. Héon).
2004 Specialist in ophthalmology
2003 – 2004 Resident, Department of Ophthalmology at St. Franziskus Hospital, Münster.
2000 – 2002 Fellowship (research): Electrophysiology, Psychophysics, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, UC Davis, USA (Adviser: Prof. Dr. J.S. Werner) (2.3 years); Scheie Eye Institute, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA (Adviser: Prof. Dr. S. J. Jacobson) (3 months).
1998 – 2000 Resident, Department of Pediatric Ophthalmology, Ophthalmogenetics and Strabismus, Eye Clinic of the University of Regensburg.
1996 – 1998 Resident, focus: Neuroophthalmology, Prof. Dr. R. Unsöld, Düsseldorf.
1996 Doctorate, University of Leipzig.
1989 – 1996 Studied human medicine at the University of Leipzig.

Most important memberships

  • AAPOS
  • ARVO
  • EPOS
  • EUNOS
  • ISGDR
  • SOG

Research focus

  • Genetic and developmental diseases of the eye
  • Manifestations of rare diseases of the eye
  • Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP)
  • Electrophysiology in MS

Publications

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For patients

Department of Ophthalmology
Orthoptic department
University Hospital Zurich
Frauenklinikstrasse 24
8091 Zurich

Tel. +41 44 255 49 40

For international patients

International Office
University Hospital Zurich
Raemistrasse 100
8091 Zurich

Tel. +41 44 255 54 54
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For referrer

Orthoptic department
University Hospital Zurich
Frauenklinikstrasse 24
8091 Zurich

Tel. +41 44 255 49 40