ZWEIFEL Sandrine

Vice Chair, Department of Ophthalmology, University Hospital Zurich

Dr. Sandrine Zweifel is a retina specialist, vice chair and head of the medical retina and imaging unit at the Department of Ophthalmology at the University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland.  After her specialty training in Switzerland, Sandrine Zweifel did a clinical and research fellowship under the mentorship of K. Bailey Freund, Richard F. Spaide and Lawrence Yannuzzi in New York.

She was awarded the title of “Godmother of the Association of DMLA (AMD)” in 2011 and was appointed visiting professor at the Université Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marne in 2013. She received her “venia legend” in ophthalmology, in particular retinal diseases from the University of Zurich in 2014.

As head of the medical retina unit at the Department of Ophthalmology, Dr. Zweifel is responsible for the management of the medical retina and injection clinics, cataract service of patients with retinal diseases and is involved in training of medical students and registrars in ophthalmology.

The major research interest of Dr. Zweifel is retinal imaging, which is essential to the diagnosis, treatment, and long-term monitoring of both ocular diseases as well as systemic diseases with ocular manifestations. She has received awards for her contributions to scientific research and serves as a reviewer for many international journals. She has participated in numerous international randomized multicenter (phase II and III) clinical trials and authored numerous papers published in major international ophthalmology journals and book chapters. She has supervised numerous thesis in Medical School graduation and Specialization in Ophthalmology. Further, Dr. Zweifel has received grants from different foundations for her outstanding clinical research.

Dr. Zweifel is a member in different national and international ophthalmological societies, including the Swiss Vitreoretinal Group, Euretina, the Macula Society the American Academy of Ophthalmology, the Club Jules Gonin, the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology and EVICR.net. She participates in numerous national and international meetings, with multiple invited speaker appointments.