Dr. Göran Helgason

Professional experience in ophthalmology/positions

　　1987-1990 Resident/registrar, Dep’t of Ophthalmology, Sahlgren´s University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden.1991-1998 Senior registrar, Dep’t of Ophthalmology, Sahlgren´s University Hospital, Gothenburg. Anterior segment surgeon since 1992.

　　1996 - 2016 Consultant in Medocular and Capio Eye Clinics (private practice), mainly performing cataract and refractive surgery - PRK, LASEK, LASIK, AK/LRI, RLE/multifocals and ICL.

　　2001 - International course instructor* and medical advisor, STAAR Surgical and Alcon Laboratories

　　2007 - 2016 Medical Director, Capio Medocular, Sweden

　　2007 - ongoing Consultant surgeon, Advanced Vision Care, London, UK 2016 –

　　2018 Consultant surgeon, Euroeyes, Denmark

　　2018 – ongoing surgeon, Euroeyes, China

Publications/Presentations

　　Flashed pattern-induced activity in the visual system : I. The short latency evoked response recorded from the cat visual cortex Acta Physiol Scand 1991,143 (With A.Sjöström, M.Abrahamsson, K.Norsell, and A.Roos)

　　Design, calibration and testing of a laser flare meter. Applied optics 1994; 33:2611-19 (With A-K Holmér, A. Tönjum, and S. Hård) Clinical outcomes of a new extended range of vision IOL: The international multicenter concerto study.

　　J Cataract Refract Surg 2016 Sep;42(9): 1268-1275 (With Cocheren B et al)

Abstracts, posters and presentations

　　Measurement of aqueous flare with a new laser flare meter. Clinical applications in uveitis patients 3 rd International Symposium on Uveitis, Brussels, 1992 (With K.Norsell, A-K Holmér, and A. Tönjum)

　　Aqueous flare in normal eyes and eyes with cataract or intraocular lenses measured with a new laser flare meter & Design and calibration of a laser flare meter

　　Sixth meeting International Society of Ocular Fluorophotometry, Brussels, 1992 (With A-K Holmér, S. Hård, and A. Tönjum)

　　Shortlatenzy occipital response to flashed pattern VER stimuli in visually normal, amblyopic and cataractous children International Society for Clinic Electrophysiology of Vision XXX Symposium, Vienna, 1992. (With M. Abrahamsson, A.Sjöström)

　　In-vivo calibration of a new laser flare meter. XXXI Nordic Congress of Ophthalmology, Gothenburg, 1993 (With K. Norsell)

　　The STAAR Toric IOL- a clinical study STAAR Toric XVIth Congress of the ESCRS, Nice 1998

　　ICL for the correction of myopia and hyperopia in clinical practice 5 th ESCRS Winter Refractive Surgery Meeting, Cannes, 2001 Aberrations after implantation of phakic IOLs 7 th ESCRS Winter Meeting, Rome, 2003

International Experience with the ICL

　　CME symposium, Phakic IOLs, AAO, Anaheim, California 2003

　　Phakic IOLs: Anterior chamber or sulcus? and CLE or phakic lens: How, when, why? Round table discussions

　　Antwerp Refractive Cataract Surgery Symposium, Belgium, 2005 Incidence of lens opacification with low vault ICL

　　International ICL Experts Symposium, ESCRS, Portugal, 2005

　　Optimizing refractive surgery 16 th Scientific Meeting: The Royal College of Ophthalmologists of Thailand, 2005

　　2004，The refractive surgeon who became a refractive patient

　　Dead Sea Conference, Israel, 2005

　　The Toric ICL – from indications to outcome

　　Instructional course, ESCRS, Sweden 2007

　　Presbyopic Surgery – Mix & Match or Pure & Simple

　　IIIC Meeting, Sweden 2007

　　The risk of developing cataract with low ICL vault

　　XXXVIII Nordic Congress of Ophthalmlogy, Norway 2008

　　Nordic Experience with the Restor +3

　　Norwegian Ophthalmic Society, Norway 2008

　　RLE with the Restor +3

　　Baltic Cataract Club, Vilnius 2010

　　Early Nordic Experience with the Restor Toric

　　Nordic RLE Meeting, Copenhagen 2010

　　Multifocal IOL’s in Refractive Surgery

　　Swedish Ophthalmology Society, Visby, Sweden, 2010

　　Toric Intraocular Lenses in clinical practise

　　Alcon Infinity Club, Stockholm 2011

　　Toric Hyperopic Visian ICL, is it different?

　　STAAR 8 th International Experts Symposium, Vienna 2011 STAAR The New Restor Family Polish Cataract and Refractive Society Meeting, during ESCRS, Milan 2012

　　Early Experience with the Restor +2.5

　　Nordic RLE Meeting, Oslo 2012

　　Choice of multifocal IOL’s

　　Finnish Medical Optical Society Meeting, 2013

　　Diffractive multifocal intraocular lenses

　　Nordic Congress of Ophthalmology, Stockholm 2014

　　Multifocal IOL’s: Alternative and personal experience

　　Swedish Ophthalmological Society, Stockholm 2015

　　Has implantation of Phakic IOL’s an advantage over Laser Vision Correction?

　　National Polish Ophthalmological Society, Ossa 2015

　　Trends in lens surgery

　　Vision 1.0, Stockholm 2018