Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Biography

Olga Svetlova, Med.Sc.D., professor of Department Ophthalmology of  North-Western State Medical University named after I.I. Mechnikov. Author of 217 scientific works, 2 monographs (2016). Hirsch index – 10. More than 25 years, conducts research on Biomechanics and physiology of the eye at the intersection of academic disciplines. The author generalized classification of executive mechanisms of accommodation and proposals for development of the theory of accommodation of lens by Helmholtz. Co-author and developer of the theory of functions of fibrous sheath eyes, the theory of open angle glaucoma and metabolic theory of adaptation myopia. As well as the co-author of new dynamic diagnostic methods to determine the in vivo new physiological and biomechanical characteristics of the eye. 

Research Interest

Physiology and biomechanics of the eye, glaucoma theory, myopia, accommodation mechanisms