Background
Meyer, Carsten H. was born on May 24, 1965 in Goettingen, Germany. Son of Hans-Jürgen and Borghild Meyer.
Meyer, Carsten H. was born on May 24, 1965 in Goettingen, Germany. Son of Hans-Jürgen and Borghild Meyer.
Doctor, Albert Ludwigs University, Freiburg, 1990. Degree, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, 1994.
Carsten H. Meyer holds an M.D. degree and serves as a specialist in vitreoretinal diseases. He went to medical schools in Freiburg (Germany), Innsbruck (Austria), and Oxford (UK) and obtained his medical degree from the University of Munich, Munich, Germany. Dr. Meyer completed his Residency at the University Eye Hospital, Luebeck, Germany, and in 1999 pursued a 2-year vitreoretinal research Fellowship at the Duke Eye Center, Durham, NC, USA. He returned to Germany and became an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ophthalmology, Philipp-University, Marburg, Germany. He was appointed at the Department of Ophthalmology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, in 2006 and became Professor in 2007. His main research interests include imaging vitreoretinal structures, retinal bear tracks, chromovitrectomy, and novel treatments in age-related macular degeneration. Dr. Meyer is an editorial board member of several ophthalmic journals and serves as a reviewer in more than 50 peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Meyer has published >40 book chapters, >210 articles in peer reviewed Journals with a cumulative impact factor > and counts >5000 citations with a H-Index of 40, i10-Index 121. He received the AAO Achievement Award (2008); holds membership in the Retina Society, Club Jules Gonin, EURETINA, Deutsche Ophthalmologische Gesellschaft (DOG), Marquis Who's Who, ORBIS; and is a dedicated examiner in the panel of the European Board of Ophthalmology (EBO). As of 2012 he became the Head of the Department of Ophthalmology, Pallas Clinic, Aarau , Switzerland, and serves as a Visiting Professor at the Retina Department of the Federal University of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Founding member Leo Club, Osnabrueck, Germany, 1984—2003. Member of Oxford Union Society, Deutschen Ophthalmologische Gesellschaft, American Association Research Vision and Ophthalmology, American Academy Ophthalmology.
Married Barbara E. Riedl, May 31, 1967. Children: Philipp Marc Louis children: Paula Susi Leonie.