Congratulations to Professor Kaweh Mansouri

Prof Kaweh Mansouri, an internationally renowned glaucoma specialist within the Swiss Visio network and co-founder of the Swiss Glaucoma Research Foundation, has just been appointed Executive Vice-President of the World Glaucoma Association. 

This is the first time that a European and Swiss specialist has been appointed to this position since the creation of the association. 

The World Glaucoma Association (WGA) is an independent, impartial and ethical organisation whose principal aim is to eliminate glaucoma-related disability throughout the world. The association's members are all world-renowned health professionals and experts. 

After training as an FMH specialist in ophthalmology, Prof Mansouri became Head of Clinic at the University of Geneva in the glaucoma unit. He then continued his postgraduate training at the Hamilton Glaucoma Center at the University of California, San Diego. It was there that he developed his attraction and fascination for glaucoma, a specialisation that he would intensify on his return as Head of Clinic in the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Geneva.

Prof Mansouri then became an FMH specialist in ophthalmic surgery at Swiss Visio and the Clinique de Montchoisi, where he has worked since 2015. 

In 2017, together with Prof André Mermoud, another glaucoma specialist, he founded and chaired the Swiss Glaucoma Research Foundation - first glaucoma research centre in Switzerland. 

Today, he is one of the world's leading glaucoma specialists.

This might not have been the case, but as he himself says, "My attraction to the field of glaucoma is the result of chance. As a third-year medical student, I was attending a paediatrics course, but I stumbled across the first international conference on non-penetrating glaucoma surgery, which was being held in the adjacent auditorium." 

This appointment demonstrates Dr Mansouri's outstanding commitment to glaucoma research and treatment and we offer him our sincerest congratulations.

Discover his interview in the Bulletin des médecins suisses