Klaudia Rakusiewicz

Klaudia Rakusiewicz is the Founder & CEO of the OPHTHA Global Foundation, where she oversees all aspects related to ophthalmology, content expertise in medical matters, educational issues, technical aspects of training, and the organization of medical operations. She closely collaborates with hospitals, performing ophthalmic surgical procedures, consulting medical cases, and conducting training for medical personnel in both Poland and Africa.

She graduated from the Medical University of Karol Marcinkowski in Poznan (https://amu.edu.pl/en). In 2021, she completed her specialization in ophthalmology at the largest pediatric ophthalmology center at the Children Memorial Health Institute in Warsaw (https://nauka.czd.pl/).

Based on her original research, she defended her doctoral thesis with distinction, titled "Analysis of retinal vascular changes in children with chronic heart failure in dilated cardiomyopathy using optical coherence tomography angiography." She presented the results of her analysis at the 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for European Pediatric and Congenital Cardiology in Gothenburg, Sweden, and the 48th Annual Meeting of the European Paediatric Ophthalmology Society in Leuven, Belgium.

She received an award for the best doctoral thesis in a competition organized by the Polish Ophthalmological Society. She is a co-researcher in the European Registry on Retinopathy of Prematurity (EU-ROP) conducted by the University Medical Center in Greifswald, Germany, and a co-researcher in the international medical program SUNFISH for the treatment of children with spinal muscular atrophy conducted in centers worldwide.

She trained in foreign centers in the UK, Germany, and Belgium. She completed foreign internships at the Department of Ophthalmology of the University Hospital in Antwerp, Belgium, under Professor Marie Jose Tassignon, the inventor of the Bag-in-the-lens (BIL) surgical technique. She also had the opportunity to participate in an observership at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London, UK, and a training program under the guidance of Professor Olivier Ehrt at the Department of Ophthalmology of Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Germany.

Currently, she is a senior assistant at the Department of Ophthalmology at the Children Memorial Health Institute. She specializes in pediatric ophthalmology, focusing on premature infants with retinopathy of prematurity, strabismus, nystagmus, amblyopia, cataracts, and congenital eye abnormalities.

She translated the book "Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus. BCSC 6. Basic and Clinical Science Course."

She is a co-author of a book chapter on cholestasis in children written by Professor Irena Jankowska and Professor Piotr Socha ("Ophthalmic symptoms of selected diseases associated with cholestasis").