Dr. Christina Gerth-Kahlert is a Professor at the University of Zurich and a senior attending physician in the Department of Ophthalmology, at the University Hospital of Zurich. She studied human medicine at the University of Leipzig from 1989 to 1996, and in 1996 she obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Leipzig. From 1998 to 2000, she was a resident in the Department of Pediatric Ophthalmology, Ophthalmogenetics, and the Strabismus Eye Clinic of the University of Regensburg. From 2003 to 2004, she was a resident in the Department of Ophthalmology at St. Franziskus Hospital, Münster. In 2011, she became the attending physician in the Department of Ophthalmology of the USZ. In 2015, she became the senior attending physician. In 2019, she achieved the titular professorship at the University of Zurich. She is a member of AAPOS, ARVO, EPOS, EUNOS, ISGDR, and SOG. Her research topics mainly include genetic and developmental diseases of the eye, manifestations of rare eye diseases, retinal prematurity (ROP), and electrophysiology in MS.