Dr. Gerd Auffarth is Professor and Chairman of The Department of Ophthalmology, Ruprecht-Karls University of Heidelberg; Director of the IVCRC and The David J Apple International Laboratory of Ocular Pathology at The University-Eye Clinic of Heidelberg, Germany.  Gerd is one of the world’s leading intraocular lens experts: their design, in terms of optics, haptics, and materials, and their surgical implantation, their safety and occasionally, their pathology too.