Dr n. med. Klaudia Rakusiewicz-Krasnodębska

MD, PhD Klaudia Rakusiewicz-Krasnodębska serves as a senior assistant and research assistant in the Department of Pediatric Ophthalmology at the Children's Memorial Health Institute in Warsaw.

She graduated from the Poznań University of Medical Sciences. She completed her residency training in the Department of Ophthalmology at the Children's Memorial Health Institute in Warsaw.

She defended her doctoral dissertation with honors, entitled "Analysis of Retinal Vascular Changes in Children with Chronic Heart Failure in the Course of Dilated Cardiomyopathy Using Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography." This work was awarded in the competition for the best doctoral dissertation organized by the Polish Ophthalmological Society.

She has completed numerous foreign training programs in centers in the United Kingdom, Germany, Belgium, and the United States. She received a scholarship for top physicians awarded by the Supreme Medical Chamber.

Her fellowships include a strabismus and pediatric ophthalmology fellowship at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London (UK) and a strabology fellowship under the direction of Prof. Olivier Ehrt at the Department of Ophthalmology of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Germany). She also completed a fellowship at the Department of Ophthalmology of the Antwerp University Hospital (Belgium) under the guidance of Prof. Marie-José Tassignon, the creator of the Bag-in-the-Lens (BIL) surgical technique.

She completed the Clinical Scholars Research Training postgraduate program at Harvard Medical School in Boston (USA).

She is a co-investigator in the European Registry on Retinopathy of Prematurity (EU-ROP), run by the University Medicine Greifswald (Germany), and in the international clinical research program SUNFISH concerning the treatment of children with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA).

She is one of the translators of the textbook "Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus. BCSC 6. Basic and Clinical Science Course Series." She is also a co-author of the chapter entitled "Ophthalmic Manifestations of Selected Diseases Accompanying Cholestasis" in the book Cholestasis in Children.

She is the author of numerous scientific publications in international journals with a total impact factor of 67.8.

She has presented numerous oral presentations at national and international congresses, two of which received awards.

She is a member of the Polish Ophthalmological Society, the European Strabismological Association (ESA), and the World Society of Paediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus (WSPOS).

On a daily basis, she focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of eye conditions in children from the first day of life, with a particular emphasis on the conservative and surgical treatment of strabismus, retinopathy of prematurity, and the prevention of myopia progression.