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INVITED LECTURE: THOMAS REINHARD, GERMANY –ENDOTHELIAL FAILURE: WHEN TO PERFORM PK, DSAEK OR DMEKChairman and professor, Eye Hospital at the Albert-Ludwigs University in FreiburgChairman, Section for Tissue Transplantation and BiotechnologyBoard Member, EuCorneaBiography: Professor Thomas Reinhard was born in Ahrweiler, Germanyin 1962. He graduated from RWTH Aachen in 1989. From 1989 to 1992Professor Reinhard was awarded a fellowship at the Eye Hospital of theHeinrich-Heine University in Düsseldorf. Since 1996 he holds a habilitation at Heinrich-Heine University.In 1994 the helped establish the LIONS Cornea Bank North Rhine Westfalia and he acted as head ofit until 2003. From 2003 to 2005 he acted as head of LIONS Cornea Bank Baden – Württemberg. In2003 Professor Reinhard became the chairman of the Eye Hospital at the Albert-Ludwigs Universityin Freiburg. He has been a Board Member of the German Ophthalmological Society (DOG) since2008, and in 2009 he became an Executive Board Member. Within the DOG he has acted as a BordMember in the Cornea Section since 2001. In 2008 he became the Chairman of the Section for TissueTransplantation and Biotechnology. He has been Vice President of the DOG two times (from 2009 to2010 and from 2011 to 2012) and President once (from 2010-2011). Since 2009 Professor Reinhardhas acted as a Council Member of the European Foundation for Tissue Banks and he has been aBoard Member of EU Cornea from 2009 to 2013. Professor Reinhard has preformed more than 23.000surgical procedures. His surgical specialties include corneal transplantation, penetrating and lamellarprocedures, limbal stem transplantation and amniotic membrane transplantation, as well as cataractand glaucoma surgery. He has written 307 papers (of these 251 articles in journals with review system)and has given 740 oral presentations (invited lectures, courses, posters, videos).XXV ANNUAL MEETING OF THE EUROPEAN EYE BANK ASSOCIATION Zagreb, Croatia 18/19 January 2013 27