G Darius Hildebrand

Switzerland

Dr Darius Hildebrand is a Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon and the Director of the Paediatric Ophthalmology, Neuro-ophthalmology and Strabismus Service at St Gallen General and Children`s Hospitals in Switzerland. He was previously the Head of the Paediatric Eye Service at the Oxford Eye Hospital. After studying medicine, history and biology at Oxford and Cambridge Universities and in the USA, he completed his ophthalmology residency training at Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, followed by three Fellowships in Paediatric Ophthalmology, Strabismus and Cataract Surgery. He is a former President of the Sir Charles Sherrington Medical Society at Oxford between 1995-1997. He currently serves on the EU Eye Advisory Committee to the European Medicines Agency and the Joint ESA-EPOS Examination Board for the Fellowship examination in Paediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus. He is the present President of the European Paediatric Ophthalmological Society since 2017.