Dr Barbara Parolini is an ophthalmologist with a special interest in surgery of retina and anterior segment. She works mainly in Brescia, Italy, but has also been working abroad as a consultant surgeon. Regarding her past experiences of note, she entered postodoctoral fellowships in 1994-1995 at UCSF (San Francisco, USA) and in 1997-1998 at UMDNJ (Newark, USA). She is now Head of the VitreoRetinal Unit at the Eyecare Clinic in Brescia, Italy. Her surgical experience covers about 10000 complex cases of vitreoretinal pathologies, submacular surgery, high myopia, trauma, and anterior segment surgery (cataracts, glaucoma, and cornea transplants). She also performs refractive surgery such as femptoLASIK and phakic IOL implantations. Her main topics of interest in vitreoretinal surgery are myopic traction maculopathy, submacular surgery, and lamellar macular holes. She has written more than 75 peer-reviewed papers and 6 book chapters. She is a professional lecturer and is regularly invited as a speaker and moderator to national and international meetings. She serves as a reviewer for multiple peer-reviewed journals. She is Vice-President of the European Vitreoretinal Society. She holds a patent for macular buckles.