Iva Dekaris

Professor Department of Ophthalmology Special Eye Eye Hospital “Svjetlost” University of Rijeka Croatia, Europe

Biography

Dr. Iva Dekaris has received her PhD in biomedicine (topic: The Role of Langerhans cells in Corneal Transplantation) at the Medical School of University in Zagreb (Croatia) in year 1999, after completing her one-year Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Harvard Medical School in Boston in1998. Currently, she is working as Medical Director and Head of Cornea Department of the Specialty Eye Hospital “Svjetlost” in Zagreb; and as a professor at Medical Schools of Universities in Zagreb and Rijeka.

Research Interest

Mechanisms of corneal graft recognition and rejection, prevention and treatment of corneal graft rejection, and clinical results of premium lens implantation during cataract surgery.