Peter Wiedemann, MD

Professor and Chair of Leipzig University Eye Hospital, Leipzig, Germany

Dr. Peter Wiedemann is Professor of Ophthalmology at Leipzig University. Dr. Wiedemann is a vitreoretinal specialist whose expertise includes complex vitreoretinal surgery and the care of conditions such as age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, ocular trauma, retinal detachment, retinal vascular diseases and uveitis.

Dr Wiedemann earned his medical degree at Erlangen University, Germany. He started ophthalmic research at the Doheny Eye Institute, Los Angeles, with Dr Stephen Ryan and completed residency and fellowship in ophthalmology at Cologne University with Prof. Klaus Heimann. In his research Dr Wiedemann studies clinical diseases such as proliferative vitreretinopathy and macular holes and Müller cells pathophysiology. He has authored over 500 peer reviewed publications in ophthalmology and is Co-editor of the textbook Ryan′s Retina. He is a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the German Ophthalmological Society, the American Academy of Ophthalmology and the Club Jules Gonin. He is also a Fellow of the Academia Ophthalmologica Internationalis (AOI), and a Board Member of the International Council of Ophthalmology (ICO).

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Terms of Appointment: June 2020 - May 2022;  June 2022 - May 2024

Updated on August 02, 2022