Professional career
01/2008 – 01/2013: Resident Physician in Ophthalmology, University Halle
since 02/2013: Specialist physician for Ophthalmology
since 03/2014 Senior physician, University Halle
since 06/2025: Senior consultant physician
Academic career
05/2010: Medical doctor degree aquired „doctor medicinae“ (Dr. med.)
10/2014: Higher education didactic course
03/2018: M3-course
01/2020: Habilitation
Supervision of medical training
since 02/2013: Interdisciplinary Tränenwegskonferenz
since 01/2014: Interdisciplinary Orbitakonferenz
since 2017: Scientific/organizat. Management „Hallescher Refraktionskurs“
since 2019: Scientific/organizat. Management „Hallescher Orbitakurs“
Memberships
since 2009: BVA (Berufsverband der Augenärzte)
since 2009: DOG (Deutsche Ophthalmologische Gesellschaft)
since 2017: SATh (Sachsen-Anhalt-Thüringische Gesellschaft der Augenärzte)
since 2018: SORC (Sektion Okuloplastische-Rekonstruktive Chirurgie)
since 10/2025: Leadership in SORC
Specialization
since 04/2015: KV authorization for the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the lacrimal apparatus
since 12/2017: Certified by the SORC
since 2021: SORC training supervisor for fellowships
Studium der Humanmedizin an der Medizinischen Universität Innsbruck
Promotion an der Medizinischen Universität Innsbruck (Dr. med. univ.) und an der Medizinischen Fakultät der Universtität München (Dr. med.)
Ausbildung zum Facharzt für Anaesthesiologie am Krankenhaus Barmherzige Brüder und am LMU-Klinikum München.
Zusatzbezeichnungen: spezielle Schmerztherapie, Intensivmedizin, Palliativmedizin, Notfallmedizin
Seit 2018 Oberarzt der Klinik für Anaesthesiologie / LMU-Klinikum München
Seit 2019 Bereichsleitender Oberarzt der Klinik für Anaesthesiologie / LMU-Klinikum München in den Bereichen Augenklinik, Aussenbereich Portalklinik, Kinderklinik und Chirurgische Klinik.
Lina Sophie Farhoumand has been a resident physician in the Department of Ophthalmology at LMU University Hospital Munich since 2024 and is currently completing a rotation in oculoplastic surgery. She studied medicine at Semmelweis University in Budapest and the University of Duisburg-Essen, and completed her final clinical internship in ophthalmology at LMU University Hospital Munich. She wrote her doctoral thesis on choroidal melanoma, supported by an ELAN fellowship. In addition to her clinical work, she serves as one of the resident representatives in the Department of Ophthalmology.
Trained in ophthalmology in the UK, Mr Verity undertook Fellowships in oculoplastics before his appointment as Consultant to Moorfields Eye Hospital in 2004. With 150 publications in ophthalmology, he is an active national and international teacher and surgical trainer.
In 2009, he was elected to the Orbital Society, and between 2011 and 2018 was Editor-in Chief of the journal ORBIT.
From 2019 – 2023 he was President of BOPSS, is the immediate past Treasurer of ESOPRS, and is co-Editor of the Society’s comprehensive oculoplastics textbook, published in 2024.
Mr Verity has contributed to the humanitarian work of the St John Eye Hospital Group since 1985. In 2009 he published a genetics doctorate on Behçet’s disease in the Middle East, and was awarded the Iris Fund Millennial Award in 2000. In 2015 he founded the St John Ophthalmic Association to unify healthcare experts around a humanitarian teaching platform, and, as a Trustee of the Hospital Group, was Chair of clinical governance.
In 2018 was appointed Hospitaller of the Most Venerable Order of St John of Jerusalem (a UK Royal Order of Chivalry), and in 2021 received a chivalric knighthood. Working with colleagues in Israel, in 2024 he was appointed visiting professor to the Hadassah Hospital.
Recently, reflecting service in geopolitically difficult regions, Mr Verity was honoured in the top 10 of the 2026 Ophthalmology Powerlist.
Saul is a consultant oculoplastic surgeon at the Sussex Eye Hospital (SEH), University Hospitals Sussex and an Honorary Professor at Brighton and Sussex Medical School. At SEH and privately at the Nuffield Health Hospital Saul runs a very busy oculoplastic service incorporating one of the major endoscopic lacrimal and orbital surgery services worldwide. Saul leads research in a wide range of areas including orbital imaging, thyroid eye disease and eyelid and orbital anatomy and has authored over 130 publications, a text book and several book chapters. Saul runs an internationally renowned oculoplastic fellowship programme at the Sussex Eye Hospital. He developed and runs the oculoplastics surgical video teaching website www.eyesurgeryvideos.net and the annual Brighton Endoscopic Lacrimal and Orbital training course www.brightonendoscopic.com. Last year, Saul and colleagues hosted and ran the British Oculoplastic Surgery Society annual conference in Brighton.
Frau Prof. Dr. Elisabeth M. Messmer, F.E.B.O., ist Oberärztin an der Augenklinik der Universität München. Sie ist auf Erkrankungen der Hornhaut und der Augenoberfläche spezialisiert und betreut mehrere Spezialsprechstunden. Zusätzlich ist sie chirurgisch tätig und betreut das Labor für Ophthalmopathologie. Sie ist Mitglied des Gesamtpräsidiums der DOG, Schatzmeisterin der European Dry Eye Society und Mitglieder multiplen Organisationen wie DOG, TFOS, DOP, EOPS und ARVO. Sie ist Reviewerin für viele nationale und internationale Fachzeitschriften. Sie hat selbst über 150 Arbeiten in ausgewählten Journals publiziert und war Mitautorin bzw. Herausgeberin von ca. 15 ophthalmologischen Büchern.
Paul Emesz is a resident physician in ophthalmology at the Department of Ophthalmology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. He completed his medical studies at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich and Technical University of Munich, graduating in 2023.Alongside his clinical training, he conducted cell biological research at the LMU Department of Ophthalmology as part of his doctoral thesis on phytotherapeutics in dry eye therapy. Since March 2024, he has been working as a resident physician at the Department of Ophthalmology, LMU Munich, with a rotation in oculoplastic surgery from October 2025 to April 2026.
Paul Emesz is a resident physician in ophthalmology at the Department of Ophthalmology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. He completed his medical studies at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich and Technical University of Munich, graduating in 2023.Alongside his clinical training, he conducted cell biological research at the LMU Department of Ophthalmology as part of his doctoral thesis on phytotherapeutics in dry eye therapy. Since March 2024, he has been working as a resident physician at the Department of Ophthalmology, LMU Munich, with a rotation in oculoplastic surgery from October 2025 to April 2026.
Ausbildung und Zusatzqualifikationen:
Wissenschaftliche Tätigkeit und Lehrtätigkeit:
Chirurgische Tätigkeit:
Wissenschaftlicher Werdegang
1985–1992 Studium der Humanmedizin, RWTH Aachen und University College
London, UK
1992-1997 Facharztweiterbildung Ophthalmologie, Augenklinik der Universität zu Lübeck (Prof. Horst Laqua)
1994 Promotion, Augenklinik der RWTH Aachen (Prof. M. Reim)
1994–2005 Nachwuchswissenschaftler, Institut für Biomedizinische Optik, Universität zu Lübeck (Prof. R. Birngruber)
1997–2000 DFG-Stipendiat und Moorfields Special Trustees Postdoctoral fellow am Moorfields Eye Hospital und Institute of Ophthalmology, London, UK
(Profs. John Dart, Richard Collin und Peng Khaw)
2000–2005 Oberarzt, Augenklinik der Universität zu Lübeck,
Leiter des Forschungslabors
2003 (1–6/03) Clinical Fellow, Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, UK (Adnexal Service, Profs. Richard Collin und Geoffrey Rose)
2003 Habilitation und Venia Legendi an der Medizinischen Fakultät der Universität zu Lübeck
2005–2011 Universitätsprofessor (W2), stellvertretender Klinikdirektor und Leiter der Hornhautbank, Augenklinik, Universität Würzburg
2005–2018 Editor in Chief “Current Eye Research” (Impact Factor 2,1)
2006–2009 Honorary and Visiting Professor, Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, UK
2009–2012 Projektleiter, DFG GE 895/7-1
2009 Mitglied des Steering Board, Meibomian Gland Disease Workshop, Vorsitzender des „Management and Therapy Subcommittee“
2009–2016 Mitglied, Nicht-ständiger Beirat der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Plastische und Wiederherstellungschirurgie
2010– Ruf auf den Lehrstuhl für Augenheilkunde, Universität Magdeburg (abgelehnt)
2011– Vorsitzender des Ressorts Trockenes Auge und Oberflächenerkrankungen, Berufsverband der Augenärzte Deutschlands
2011– Ordinariat für Augenheilkunde der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf und Direktor der Klinik für Augenheilkunde am Universitätsklinikum Düsseldorf
2013– Fellow of the European Board of Ophthalmology (FEBO)
2013–2016 Mitglied, Steering Board Ocular Surface Inflammation, Dry Eye & Allergies, European Vision Institute Clinical Research Net
2016– Projektleiter, DFG GE 895/7-3
2016- Benannter Ansprechpartner und für Krankenhaus- und Personalplanung der Deutschen Ophthalmologischen Gesellschaft (DOG)
2017-2019 Mitglied des Gewählten Fakultätsrates, Medizinische Fakultät, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf
2018– Vizepräsident des Vereins Rheinisch-Westfälischer Augenärzte
2018- Stellvertretender Vorsitzender der Vereinigung Ophthalmologischer Lehrstuhlinhaber
2018-2025 Beauftragter Experte der DOG, Institut für Medizinische & Pharmazeutische Prüfungsfragen (IMPP)
2019- Gründungsmitglied / Board of Directors, European Dry Eye Society (EuDES)
2020 Ruf auf den Lehrstuhl für Augenheilkunde und Optometrie, Medizinische Universität Innsbruck, Österreich (abgelehnt)
2020/2021 1. Vizepräsident der Deutschen Ophthalmologischen Gesellschaft (DOG)
2021- Vorsitzender der AG Ethik in der Augenheilkunde der DOG
2021-2025 Stellvertretender Vorsitzender der Sektion Ophthalmoplastische Rekonstruktive Chirurgie (SORC) der DOG
2021/2022 Präsident der DOG
2022/2023 2. Vizepräsident der DOG
2021-2025 Ombudsperson der Medizinischen Fakultät, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
2023 Mitglied des Gewählten Fakultätsrates, Medizinische Fakultät, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf
2024-2025 Mitglied, Steering Board Ocular Surface Inflammation, Dry Eye & Allergies, European Vision Institute Clinical Research Net
2025- Vertreter der Sektion Ophthalmoplastische Rekonstruktive Chirurgie (SORC) im Gesamtpräsidium der DOG
Preise und Auszeichnungen
1999 Leonhard-Klein Preis, Deutscher Stifterverband
2000 Norman-Rowe Award, British Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons
2000 Sicca-Förderpreis, Berufsverband der Augenärzte Deutschlands
2000 1. Videopreis, Orbita-/Lidchirurgie, DOC
2001 Forschungsförderpreis für innovative Arbeiten zur Glaukombehandlung, Deutsche Ophthalmologische Gesellschaft
2002 Sicca-Förderpreis, Berufsverband der Augenärzte Deutschlands
2002 Ehrenmitglied, Societa Italiana Cellule Staminale Superficie Oculare
2006 Sicca-Förderpreis, Berufsverband der Augenärzte Deutschlands
2015/2018 DOC-Medaille (Bronze 2015, Silber 2018)
2021 Chibret Medaille
10 ausgewählte Publikationen
1. Geerling G, Daniels JT, Dart JKG, Cree IA, Khaw PT: Toxicity of natural tear substitutes in a fully defined culture model of human corneal epithelial cells. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci (2001) 42: 948-956.
2. Geerling G, Müller M, Winter C, Hoerauf H, Oelkers S, Laqua H, Birngruber R: Intraoperative 2-Dimensional Optical Coherence Tomography as a New Tool for Anterior Segment Procedures. Arch Ophthalmol (2005) 123: 253-257.
3. Borrelli M, Schröder C, Dart J, Collin JR, Sieg P, Cree I, Matheson M, Tiffany J, Proctor G, van Best J, Hyde N, Geerling G: Long-Term Follow-up after Submandibular Gland Transplantation in Severe Dry Eyes Secondary to Cicatrizing Conjunctivitis. Am J Ophthalmol (2010)150: 894-904.
4. Geerling G, Tauber J, Baudouin C, Goto E, Matsumoto Y, O’Brien T, Rolando M, Tsubota K, Nichols KK: The international workshop on meibomian gland dysfunction: report of the subcommittee on management and treatment of meibomian gland dysfunction. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci (2011) Mar;52: 2050-64.
5. Borrelli M, Joepen N, Reichl, S, Finis D, Schoppe M, Geerling G, Schrader, S. Keratin films for ocular surface reconstruction evaluation of biocompatibility in an in-vivo model. Biomaterials (2015) 42:112-20.
6. Schrader S, Witt J, Geerling G. (2017) Plastic compressed collagen transplantation – a new option for corneal surface reconstruction? Acta Ophthalmol. 2017 Nov 30. doi: 10.1111/aos.13649.
7. Gruenert AK, Rosenbaum K, Geerling G, Fuchsluger TA. (2017) The influence of donor factors on corneal organ culture contamination. Acta Ophthalmol. 2017 Mar 7. doi: 10.1111/aos.13402.
8. Dua HS, Said DG, Messmer EM, Rolando M, Benitez-Del-Castillo JM, Hossain PN, Shortt AJ, Geerling G, Nubile M, Figueiredo FC, Rauz S, Mastropasqua L, Rama P, Baudouin C. (2018) Neurotrophic keratopathy. Prog Retin Eye Res. 2018 Sep;66:107-131.
9. Kaiser T, Janssen B, Schrader S, Geerling G. (2019) Depressive symptoms, resilience, and personality traits in dry eye disease. Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol. 2019 Mar;257(3):591-599. doi: 10.1007/s00417-019-04241-1.
10. Witt J; Mertsch S; Dietrich J; Schrader S; Spaniol K; Geerling G (2020) Decellularized Porcine Conjunctiva as an Alternative Substrate for Tissue-Engineered Epithelialized Conjunctiva; The Ocular Surface 2020 Oct;18(4):901-911. doi: 10.1016/j.jtos.2020.08.009.
Heads the Oculoplastic and Orbital Services at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, where he is dedicated to patient care, teaching, and research. He completed his medical training in ophthalmology at LMU Munich before specializing in eyelid and orbital surgery. His fellowship training included work with Charles Beyer-Machule (Munich), J. Richard O. Collin (London), and Leo Koornneef (Amsterdam).In 1993 he became a full member of ESOPRS, serving as its Secretary from 2006 to 2014. He is a Fellow of the European Board of Ophthalmology (FEBO) and an active member of both EUGOGO and the Orbital Society.
For more than two decades, he has led a multidisciplinary orbital board as well as a combined Graves’ clinic. He also organizes the Munich Beyer-Machule Course on Eyelid Surgery and the Munich Orbital Symposium, both held biennially.
Christoph Hintschich has been an invited lecturer and guest surgeon in numerous countries and has trained many international fellows. His main professional interests include functional and aesthetic eyelid surgery and orbital surgery, with a particular focus on ptosis correction, surgical rehabilitation in Graves’ disease, and management of the anophthalmic socket
Constantin Hintschich, MD, is a clinical scientist and surgeon focusing on oculoplastic, orbital, and lacrimal surgery at the Eye Hospital of Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. Alongside patient care, he is actively involved in teaching and research.
After completing specialty training in otolaryngology with experience in endoscopic surgery of the paranasal sinuses and skull base at the University Hospital Regensburg, he began an additional training in ophthalmology with special focus on oculoplastics at the LMU Eye Hospital.
He has an extensive research background in chemosenses, having completed his habilitation in 2023 and conducted a postdoc at Harvard University and Tufts University, Boston. He has received grants by the German Research Foundation (DFG), the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, the German Society of Ophthalmology (DOG), and the German Society of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, Head and Neck Surgery (DGHNO). He has a keen intertest in the surgical training of residents and is a co-founder of Cellsor Inc., a biotechnology company developing a living olfactory biosensor for real-time olfactory detection.
Aylin Garip Kübler embarked on her career journey with a residency at Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Department of Ophthalmology in Munich, from 2006 to 2011. She achieved a Specialist Ophthalmology certification in 2011 and obtained Fellowship of the European Board of Ophthalmology (FEBO) in 2012. Following the completion of her residency, she served as a consultant with a focus on oculoplastic and reconstructive surgery in the same clinic. During this time, she worked closely with Professor Christoph Hintschich. In 2018 she became a full member of the European Society of Oculoplastic and Reconstructive Surgery (ESOPRS). Her research concentrates on improving the tools for diagnosing and treating optic nerve compression in patients with Thyroid Eye Disease.
Raman Malhotra is a Consultant Ophthalmic and Oculoplastic surgeon at The Queen Victoria
Hospital, East Grinstead, UK. He also runs a private practice in London.
His specialist interests include aesthetic eyelid surgery and reconstructive oculoplastic and orbital
surgery. He provides the oculoplastic care for the largest facial palsy service in the UK and runs an
international fellowship training programme.
He has developed the Malhotra endonasal DCR nibbler and endonasal punch. In 2013 he developed
the Malhotra Platinum segment chain for upper eyelid loading in facial palsy. In 2015, he described
and reported the post-levator aponeurosis fat pad, a layer of fat in the eyelid not previously
recognised in anatomy textbooks.
He has published over 250 peer-reviewed research articles, book chapters and books. He has served
as section editor of the British Journal of Ophthalmology for 10 years and is section editor for Clinical
Experimental Ophthalmology. He sits on the editorial board of Orbit, the international journal of the
European Society of Ophthalmic, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.
He has received the American Academy of Ophthalmology Achievement Award and a Silver National
Clinical Excellence Award by the Department of Health.
He is a founder member of the British Oculoplastic Surgeons Society (BOPSS) and member of the
European Society of Ophthalmic, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons (ESOPRS) and American
Society of Ophthalmic, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons (ASOPRS).
Professor of Radiology, Attending Radiologist
Department of Clinical Radiology
University of Munich Hospitals
Ullrich G. Mueller-Lisse was born in Leverkusen, Germany. He studied biology at Ripon College, Ripon, WI, USA, medicine at the universities of Bonn, Germany, Bristol, England, UK, and California-San Francisco, USA, outcomes research and clinical epidemiology at the University of California-San Francisco, USA, and health care management at the University of Applied Sciences, Deggendorf, Germany. He pursued residency training in urology, radiology, and neuroradiology at the University of Munich Hospitals, Germany, and worked as a clinical instructor and research fellow in radiology at the University of California-San Francisco, USA.
Besides his M.D. degree, full medical license and board license in radiology, Ullrich G. Mueller-Lisse holds a B.A.-degree in biology, and an M.B.A.-degree for health care management. He has been attending radiologist since 2002, attending PET-CT radiologist since 2012, and Professor of Radiology at the University of Munich Hospitals, Germany, since 2010.
Ullrich G. Mueller-Lisse has served as an editorial board member of “European Radiology”, and as a reviewer for different national and international medical journals. He is an active member of different national and international medical societies, including the European Society of Radiology (ESR), the German Roentgen Society, and the European Society of Urogenital Radiology (ESUR). His research interests include MRI, CT, PET-CT, and new imaging systems in urogenital imaging, chest-and-lung imaging / occupational medicine, and head-and-neck imaging.
Anna Schuh, MD, FEBO, is a consultant and surgeon for oculoplastic, orbital, and lacrimal surgery at the Eye Hospital of Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. Besides patient care, she is actively involved in teaching and research.
After she completed her residency in ophthalmology, she undertook advanced oculoplastic training at LMU Munich (Prof. C. Hintschich) and refined her expertise in lacrimal surgery at the Eye Hospital Darmstadt (Prof. K.-H. Emmerich).
Her scientific work has been recognized with the Leonhard Klein Award for the Advancement of Ophthalmic Surgery, the Dieter Bumiller Research Award, and the Sicca Research Award.
She leads the cooperation project with the University Eye Department in Nairobi, Kenya.
Dr. Schuh is a full member of the European Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (ESOPRS), the European Group on Graves’ Orbitopathy (EUGOGO), and the Section for Oculoplastic and Reconstructive Surgery of the German Ophthalmological Society (SORC DOG).
Uli Schaudig trained in general and plastic surgery in Munich before he turned his interest to ophthalmology at the University Hospital in Hamburg Eppendorf.
After his board certification in 1997, he continued to work as a senior registrar at the University, with special interests in both oculoplastic and vitreoretinal surgery and completed his scientific work with a PH.D. thesis on retinal imaging. He served as head of ophthalmic pathology and the oculoplastic service.
In 2007, he became chief of the department of Ophthalmology at the Asklepios Klinik Barmbek.
His department serves as one of four hospital based centres of ophthalmology for the metropolitan area of Hamburg, provides a residency program and teaches undergraduate students for Hamburg University and Semmelweis University (Asklepios Medical School), Budapest.
He continues to work as a general ophthalmic surgeon, with a special interest in oculoplastic surgery.
He has published numerous articles in german and international peer –referenced journals and is a regular lecturer at international and national congresses.
He organized the 2019 annual Meeting of ESOPRS in Hamburg and co-organized the first online-only annual ESOPRS meeting 2021 during the SARS CoV2 pandemic.
Current affiliation and services:
Executive Committee member, representing Germany: ESOPRS European Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Board member, representing ophthalmology, GÄCD multidisciplinary German society of aesthetic surgery,
Head, SORC, Section of ophthalmic plastic and reconstructive surgery, German ophthalmological society DOG ( Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ophthalmology)
Member of several other national and international scientific societies (DOG, ASOPRS, AAO, Retinological society) and regular reviewer for peer-reviewed journals (OPRS, Die Ophthalmologie, Orbit, Current Eye Researchm, Klinische Monatsblätter für Augenheilkunde)
Uli Schaudig is married, his wife Katrin Schaudig is a well renowned specialist in gynecological endocrinology.