Professional Experience
Since 2/2012 Professor and Chair, Department of Ophthalmology, Goethe-University Frankfurt,
Germany
2011 Offer of the Val and Edith Green Presidential Professorship, University of Utah, Salt
Lake City, USA
2011 Offer of the Professorship and Chairman position for Ophthalmology, Department of
Ophthalmology, University of Magdeburg, Germany
2011 Offer of the Professorship and Chairman position for Ophthalmology, Department of
Ophthalmology Goethe-University Frankfurt
2008 Fellow of European Board of Ophthalmologists (FEBO)
2007 Military Exercise (Chief Staff Surgeon), Military Hospital in Ulm, Germany
2003 – 2012 Deputy Chairman, Department of Ophthalmology, Goethe-University Frankfurt
2003 Professor of Ophthalmology, Department of Ophthalmology, Goethe-University
Frankfurt
2001 Associate Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Goethe-University Frankfurt
Since 2000 Visiting Professor of Ophthalmology, Cullen Eye Institute, Baylor College of
Medicine, Houston, TX/USA
1997 1997 Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Goethe-University
Frankfurt
Prof. Dr. Thomas Kohnen, MD, PhD, FEBO
Professor and Chair, Department of Ophthalmology
Goethe University, Frankfurt
1996 Appointment as Head Surgeon
1995 – 1997 DFG (German Research Foundation) Scholarship at Cullen Eye Institute, Baylor
College of Medicine, Houston, TX/USA, “Physiology and pathophysiology of
refractive corneal interventions with laser thermal keratoplasty (LTK). An
experimental and clinical survey“
1995 Traveler Scholarship, International Society for Refractive Surgery, Minneapolis,
MN/USA
1994 – 1995 Assistant Medical Director, Military Hospital, Ulm, Military Service (Medical Officer)
and Military Exercise (Chief Staff Surgeon)
1994 German Board of Ophthalmology, Tübingen, Germany
1992 – 1993 Scientific Assistant, University Eye Clinic, Gießen, Germany (resident in
ophthalmology)
1991 MD, License to practice medicine
1989 – 1992 Scientific Assistant, Clinic Dardenne Bonn, Germany (resident in ophthalmology)
1989 Physician’s Examination
1986 / 1987 Scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) in Milan, Italy and
Bombay, India