Jesper Østergaard Hjortdal, MD, Dr Med Sci, PhD, is Clinical Professor in Ophthalmology at Aarhus University, Denmark, and Consultant and Clinical Director of Corneal and Refractive Surgery in the Department of Ophthalmology, Aarhus University Hospital. Since 2008 he has also been Medical Director of the Danish Cornea Bank. Dr. Hjortdal became an accredited Specialist in Ophthalmology in 1998 and joined Aarhus University Hospital in 2001, having previously been Honorary Fellow in Cornea and External Diseases at Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, UK. Between 2003 and 2009, Dr. Hjortdal was Manager and Chairman of Specialist Education in Ophthalmology in Denmark. He became President of the Danish Ophthalmological Society in 2010 and President of the European Eye Bank Association in 2013. He is co-editor of Acta Ophthalmologica and also an editorial board member of the Journal of Refractive Surgery. His research interests are ocular surface restoration, corneal modelling by photochemical treatment, intrastromal femtosecond laser ablation, corneal banking, and corneal transplantation, and he has published extensively on these subjects.
