AFFILIATION:

• Emeritus Professor Antwerp University, Belgium (2017 till current)
• CEO of the P.E.D Tassignon Company: medico-legal expert in ophthalmology for the government and insurance companies
• Coach anterior segment surgery at University Hospital Brussels (VUB) (2023-current)

KEY POSITIONS:

• President committee Fellow Eur. Board Ophthalmol. Exam on Cataract and Refr. Surg (FEBOS-CR)
• Member Education Committee ESCRS
• Immediate past president of Academia Ophthalmology Internationalis (Chair L)
• Chair Anterior Segment section of European Vision Institute Clinical Trial-network (EVICR-net)
• President Belgian Foundation for Research in Ophthalmology
• President Belgian Society for Visual Rehabilitation
• Co editor of Journal Cataract Refractive Surgery/ section review papers
• Co editor of Ophthalmic Research/ section cataract
• Chair IV of the European Academy Ophthalmology
• Past President of ESCRS
• Past President of Belgian Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
• Past President EBO and past member of its advisory board
• Past Chair program committee WOC 2020-2022

AWARDS last 5 years:

• 2019: Teddy Epstein Medal of the South African Society Cataract and Refractive Surgery
• 2020: Kanski medal lecture at World Society Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus
• 2020: Bjerrum Medal Lecture of Danish Ophthalmology Society
• 2022: Honoree lecturer Chinese Opthalmological Society
• 2022: Barraquer award from VideoCatarattaRefrattiva-Milan
• 2023: Heritage Lecture at European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons- Vienna
• 2023: Heritage Medal Lecture at European Eye and Vision Research- Valencia
• 2024: Power List of “The ophthalmologists” (10th time)
• 2026: EyeCon21 by APJO

RESEARCH/PUBLICATIONS:

• Publications in peer reviewed journals: 379
• Author of book chapters: 27
• Editor of full text books in ophthalmology: 3
• H index: 52

PATENTS: 10