Prof. Dr. Antonia Joussen

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About Prof. Dr. Antonia Joussen Prof. Dr. Antonia Joussen is a respected Ophthalmologist with 18+ years of experience. She completed her study in medicine at the Ruhr University Bochum and at Heidelberg University, Germany in 1990 and started working as a Research Fellow at Children’s Hospital & Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Harvard Medical School, Boston, the USA in 1999. She has won several awards such as a Doctoral thesis award from the German Ophthalmological Society, sponsored by the Wacker Fund, 1997, and lastly Undergraduate scholarship from the Cusanuswerk 1991 – 1996. In 2000, she was appointed as an instructor at Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School. After returning to Germany, she received the Emmy Noether Career Development Grant (Scientific Excellence Program) from the German Research Foundation from 2002 to 2007. Dr. Joussen’s areas of interest under the subject include Paediatric Ophthalmology, Squint, Retinopathy of prematurity, Glaucoma, Eye trauma, General Ophthalmology, etc. She has been the Editor in Chief of “Graefes Archives of Ophthalmology” and has several articles and chapters under her name in national and international journals.