Anna Nowińska is a habilitated doctor of ophthalmology and an adjunct at the Chair and Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, with the Division of Dentistry in Zabrze, Medical University of Silesia in Katowice (Poland). Dr Nowinska is a member of the Polish Society of Ophthalmology (PTO) and the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO). Her areas of scientific expertise include corneal dystrophies and degenerations and anterior and posterior eye segment optical coherence tomography. She is the author of over 30 original articles, five monographs, and over 100 abstracts presented during international and Polish meetings. She has a Hirsch Index of 11. Dr. Nowinska also has over ten years of experience in ophthalmic surgery, with special interest in cataract and vitreoretinal surgery.