Trauzettel-Klosinski Lab

Vision Rehabilitation Research Unit

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Susanne Trauzettel-Klosinski

Surname Trauzettel-Klosinski
First name Susanne
Nationality German
Present position and title Head of Vision Rehabilitation Unit, MD, Professor of Ophthalmology

Business address

Vision Rehabilitation Research Unit,
Institute for Ophthalmic Research,
University Eye Hospital
Elfriede-Aulhorn-Straße 7
D-72076 Tübingen,
Germany

Phone: +49 7071 29-80818
Fax: +49 7071 29-5164
E-mail: susanne.trauzettel-klosinski[at]uni-tuebingen.de

Academic Education

Year Degree University Field of study
1976 General Medical Licence (Approbation) Tübingen Medicin
1974 Exam of Educational Commission of foreign medical graduates ECFMG Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, Chicago, USA Medicin
1974 MD (thesis) Tübingen Medicin (pediatrics)
1974      Final exam Tübingen Medicin
1972 Student internship (Famulatur) JJ-Hospital, Mumbai, India Pediatrics
1968-74 Medical student Tübingen Medicin

Professional Experience

Period Institution Position Discipline
Since 2013 Univ. Eye Hospital Tübingen Head of Vision Rehabilitation Research Unit Vision Rehabilitation
2000 Univ. Eye Hospital Tübingen Professor of Ophthalmology Ophthalmology
1994 Univ. Eye Hospital Tübingen Associate professor of Ophthalmology
(Habilitation)
Neuro-Ophthalmology
1991-2013 Univ. Eye Hospital Tübingen Senior physician
Founding director of the Low Vision Clinic and Research Lab 1991
Vision Rehabilitation
1990-91 Univ. Eye Hospital Tübingen Research scholarship Neuro-Ophthalmology
1989-1990 Neurol. Department
Inselspital Bern, Switzerland
Neuro-ophthalmological consultant Neuro-Ophthalmology
1985-89 Univ. Eye Hospital Tübingen Associate scientist during stay in Switzerland Neuro-Ophthalmology
1979-85 University Eye Hospital Tübingen Assistant Professor and Senior Physician Neuro-Ophthalmology
1980 Qualification for Ophthalmology Ophthalmology
1976-79 University Eye Hospital Freiburg resident Ophthalmology
1974-76 University Eye Hospital Freiburg Internship Ophthalmology
University of Tübingen Pediatrics, Neurology, Psychiatry
Nürtingen Hospital Surgery
Robert Bosch Hospital Stuttgart Intern Medicine

Professional Activities and Functions

Organization of Academic Events

2002-2004 Coordinator of a  EU- Research project about reading in AMD (AMD-Read) (QLK6-CT-2002-00214): regular meetings of the research partners
2001 Host of the international meeting  of the European Neuroophthalmology Society (EUNOS) 2001  in Tübingen
Since 2000 Member of scientific committees of more than 30 scientific international meetings
Since 2010 Organization of repeated meetings with the board of the European Society for Low Vision Research and Rehabilitation (ESLRR)
Since 2010 Organization of repeated meetings with the scientific committee of the European Neuroophthalmological Society (EUNOS)

Academic Awards

1992 Video-Award of the German Ophthalmology Society (Co-Author)
1999 Atwell Award for my doctoral student Jens Reinhard for „Excellence in Vision Rehabilitation Research“
2001 Poster Award at the Fortüne Kolloquium Tübingen
2002 First Poster Award at „Vision 2002“ in Göteborg
2002 Hrubach Award for optics for my diploma student Andrea Stockum
2003 Dissertation-Award of the Bielschowsky Society for my doctoral student Jens Reinhard
2003 Fellow in the North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society (NANOS)
2004  1. Prize for the best Curriculum (Co-Author) at the Medical Faculty WS 03/04
2005 Poster Award for my doctoral student A. Messias at VISION 2005
2009 Research Award for Neurorehabilitation of the Fürst-Donnersmarck Foundation
2014 Dissertation-Award of the Bielschowsky Society for my doctoral student Ingelene Damm
2017 Elfriede Aulhorn Honorary Lecture 2017 at the German Ophthalomology Society

Academic Teaching and Services

2002-2008 Vice President of the International Society for Low Vision Research and Rehabilitation (ISLRR)
2010-2017 Since 2017 Vice President of the European Society for Low Vision Research and Rehabilitation (ESLRR)
Advisory member of the board
2010-2017,
Since 2017
Research Director of the European Neuroophthalmology Society (EUNOS)
Advisory member of the Research Committee
2013-2015 Member of the “guideline commission developmental dyslexia” (representative of the German Ophthalmology Society)
2012-2018 Member of the „working group ophthalmology“ at the German Federal Ministry for Labor and Social Affairs
2015 Member of the consortium for the WHO-Consensus Conference on Low Vision

Memberships

  • Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)
  • Bielschowsky Society
  • Berufsverband der Augenärzte Deutschlands (BVA)
  • Deutsche Ophthalmologische Gesellschaft (DOG)
  • European Neuro-Ophthalmological Society (EUNOS)
  • North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society (NANOS) fellow
  • International Society of Low Vision Research and Rehabilitation (ISLRR)
  • European Society for Low Vision Research and Rehabilitation (ESLRR)
  • Low Vision Research Group (LVRG)

Further Activities

  • Advisory member in the Research Committee of the European Neuro-Ophthalmology Society (EUNOS)
  • Advisory member in the Board of the European Society of Low Vision research and Rehabilitation (ESLRR)

Selected Publications

Vision Rehabilitation (general)

  1. Trauzettel-Klosinski S (2010) Rehabilitation for Visual Disorders. J Neuro-Ophthalmol 30: 73-84
    https://journals.lww.com/jneuro-ophthalmology/pages/default.aspx
  2. Trauzettel-Klosinski S, Dietz K and the IReST Study Group (2012) Standardized Assessment of Reading Performance: The new International Standardized Reading Texts IReST.  Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 53:5452-5461. https://iovs.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2166061

Hemianopia

  1. Trauzettel - Klosinski S (1997): Eccentric fixation in hemianopic field defects - a valuable strategy to improve reading ability and an indication for cortical plasticity. Neuro - Ophthalmol 18: 117-131
    https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.3109/01658109709044129
  2. Trauzettel - Klosinski S, Reinhard J (1998) The vertical field border in human hemianopia and its significance for fixation behavior and reading. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 39. 2177-2186
    https://iovs.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2161929
  3. Reinhard J, Schreiber A, Schiefer U, Sabel BA, Kasten E, Kenkel S, Vonthein R, Trauzettel-Klosinski S (2005) Does visual restitution training change absolute homonymous scotoma? British Journal of Ophthalmology 89: 30-35
    https://bjo.bmj.com/content/89/1/30.long
  4. Horton JC, Fahle M, Mulder T, Trauzettel-Klosinski S (2017). Adaptation, perceptual learning, and plasticity of brain functions Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol 255:435–447, DOI 10.1007/s00417-016-3580-y
    http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00417-016-3580-y

Training

  1. Roth T, Sokolov AN, Messias A, Roth P, Weller M, Trauzettel-Klosinski S. (2009) Comparing explorative saccade and flicker training in hemianopia: a randomized controlled study. Neurology 72(4): 324-331.
    https://n.neurology.org/content/neurology/72/4/324.full.pdf
  2. Ivanov IV, Kuester S, MacKeben M, Krumm A, Haaga M, Staudt M, Cordey A, Gehrlich C, Martus P,  Trauzettel Klosinski S (2018) Effects of visual search training in children with hemianopia. PLoS One 13(7): e0197285. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0197285.
    https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0197285
  3. Kaltenegger K, Kuester S, Altpeter E, Eschweiler GW , Cordey A , Gehrlich C, Ivanov IV, Martus P, Knipp C, Trauzettel-Klosinski S (2019) . Effects of home reading training on reading speed and depression in AMD -A randomized and controlled study. Graefe`s Archives Exp Clin Ophthalmol, Nr. XXX
    Free download: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00417-019-04328-9

Optic neuritis

  1. Trauzettel-Klosinski S (1989) Various stages of optic neuritis assessed by subjective brightness of flicker. Arch Ophthalmol 107: 63-68.
    https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaophthalmology/article-abstract/637633
  2. Pihl-Jensen G, Ivanov IV, Hinze D, Trauzettel-Klosinski S, Frederiksen J (2019)
    Sensitive assessment of acute optic neuritis by a new, digital flicker test. Ophthalmic Research, DOI: 10.1159/000503304  . https://www.karger.com/Article/FullText/503304

Developmental dyslexia

  1. Trauzettel-Klosinski S, Mackeben M, Reinhard J, Feucht A, Dürrwächter U, Klosinski G (2002). Pictogram naming in dyslexic and normally reading children assessed by SLO. Vision Research 42: 789-799
    https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/vision-research