TIMO HAUFSCHILD

Our offer

• Basic and preventive examinations, prescription of glasses, consultancy services for contact lens wearers
• Cataract: Preventive examinations incl. biometrics to calculate the lenses, consultancy services and supporting patients before and after surgery
• Glaucoma: State-of-the-art laser and computer-assisted diagnostics (visual field testing Octopus 900, OCT Spectralis) and therapy
• Laser treatments
• Paediatric ophthalmology
• Schools for eye training (orthoptics), strabismus assessment and treatments
• Myopia prophylaxis
• Macular degeneration (AMD): Diagnostics (OCT Spectralis) and therapy of dry and wet form
• Corneal topography and corneal thickness measurements (pachymetry)
• Diagnostics and therapy of diseases of the lacrimal apparatus
• Diagnostics and therapy of the «dry eye»
• Neuro-ophthalmology (eye movement disorders/paralysis)
• Expert opinion
• Ophthalmological examinations for driving licences of all classes/”MFK”-certificates (except for Medtraffic)
• Emergency treatment

Professional experience

• 2008
  Opening ophthalmologist practice, Picassoplatz 8 in Basel
• 2003 – 2007
  Senior Physician, University-Eye Clinic Basel
  Examiner of the Swiss Federal Medical Examinations Board
• 2002 – 2003
  Deputy Senior Physician, University-Eye Clinic Basel
• 1998 – 2002
  Assistant physician, University-Eye Clinic Basel

Training

• 1998 – 2003
  Specialist training
• 1998
  Dissertation (Internal Medicine)
• 1995 – 1997
  Research Fellow, Laboratory for Ocular Pharmacology and Physiology · Research focus Glaucoma, University-Eye Clinic Basel, Prof. J. Flammer
• 1989 – 1995
  Medical studies (Germany / USA / Switzerland)

Scientific publications

• Published scientific articles (PDF, 70kB)
• Listings in the National Library of Medicine  

  • Susac syndrome: a vasospastic disorder?
  • Reduced thirst in patients with a vasospastic syndrome.
  • Pupillary examination with infrared consumer videocamera.
  • Hereditary systemic angiopathy (HSA) with cerebral calcifications, retinopathy, progressive nephropathy, and hepatopathy.
  • Increased endothelin-1 plasma levels in patients with multiple sclerosis.
  • Idiopathic isolated abscess in an extraocular muscle in a child.
  • Increased endothelin-1 plasma levels in giant cell arteritis: a report on four patients.
  • Increased plasma endothelin-1 levels in patients with progressive open angle glaucoma.
  • Nitric oxide production by isolated human and porcine ciliary processes.
  • Increased endothelin-1 plasma level in young adults with retinal vascular occlusive diseases.
  • Effect of hospitalization on intraocular pressure in patients with high tension and normal tension glaucoma.
  • Influence of red wine on visual function and endothelin-1 plasma level in a patient with optic neuritis.
  • Spontaneous calcium-independent nitric oxide synthase activity in porcine ciliary processes.
  • Transient raise of endothelin-1 plasma level and reduction of ocular blood flow in a patient with optic neuritis.

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