Dr. Göran G. Helgason is one of Europe’s most experienced and talented Swedish doctors. He mastered all disciplines in the field of eye surgery and has more than 20 years of experience. He got the ICL for himself.
Education
- 1984 Medical exam, Gothenburg University, Sweden.
- 1986 M. D./Licenced Medical Practitioner, the National Board of Health and Welfare, Sweden.
- 1991 Specialist in ophthalmology, National Board of Health and Welfare, Sweden.
Professional experience in ophthalmology
- 1987-1990 Resident/registrar, Dep’t of Ophthalmology, Sahlgrens University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden.
- 1991-1998 Senior registrar, Dep’t of Ophthalmology, Sahlgrens University Hospital, Gothenburg. Anterior segment surgeon since 1992.
- 1996 – ongoing Consultant, Medocular and Capio Eye Clinics (private practice), mainly doing cataract and refractive surgery – PRK, LASEK, LASIK, AK/LRI, CLE/RLE/Multifocals, ICL/PRL and Intacs.
- 2001 – ongoing International course instructor* and medical advisor, IS Surgical and Alcon Laboratories.
- 2007 – ongoing Medical Director, Capio Medocular, Sweden. Consultant surgeon, Advanced Vision Care, London.
Publications / presentations
- Flashed the 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. Hard).
- Clinical outcomes of a new extended range of vision IOL: The international multicentrer concerto study.
- Considered for publication in the Journal of Refractive Surgery.
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 of the International Society of Ocular Fluorophotometry, Brussels, 1992 (With A-K, Holmér, S. Fierce, and A. Tönjum)
- Shortlatenzy the occipital response to flashed the pattern VER stimuli in visually normal and amblyopic and cataractous children
- International Society for the 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 BEARS Toric IOL – a clinical study
- XVIth Congress of the ESCRS, Nice 1998
- ICL for the correction of myopia and hyperopia in clinical practice
- 5th 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: the 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
- 16th Scientific Meeting: The Royal College of Ophthalmologists of Thailand, 2005
- The refractive surgeon who became a refractive patient
- Dead Sea Conference, Israel, 2005
- The Toric ICL – from indications the two 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 KNOWN in the 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
- Toric Intraocular Lenses in clinical practice
- Alcon Infinity Club, Stockholm 2011
- Toric Hyperopic Visian ICL, is it different?
- ARE the 8th International Experts Symposium, Vienna 2011
- The New Restor Family
- Polish Catarct and Refractive Society Meeting, during the 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 the implantation of Phakic IOL’s an advantage of Laser Vision Correction?
- National Polish Ophthalmological Society, Ossa 2015
Courses STAAR ICL
- South Korea October 2002
- Belgium February 2003
- South Africa (3 locations) March 2003
- Belgium June 2003
- Munich (ESCRS) September 2003
- Moscow September 2003
- Dubai, UAE December 2003
- Israel March 2004
- Paris (ESCRS) September 2004
- Israel October 2004
- Belgium January 2005
- Rome (ESCRS) February 2005
- Japan (2 locations) February 2005
- Israel March 2005
- Israel May 2005
- Lisbon (ESCRS) September 2005
- Thailand (3 locations) December 2005
- Switzerland July 2006
- London (ESCRS) September 2006
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