- TFOS global ambassadors and international chapter affiliate
Switzerland
David Goldblum
David Goldblum is Chief Medical Officer (CMO) of Pallas-Kliniken and Professor at the University Basel, Switzerland. Following medical school at the Universities of Basel and Zurich, Professor Goldblum did his training at the University Hospital Bern and the prestigious Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. His clinical focus and research interest is biomarkers in dry eye, especially in patients following allogenic stem cell transplantation and GvHD. Furthermore, he is an osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesis surgeon, taking care of corneal blind patients with completely dry eyes post Stevens-Johnson, Lyell, severe burns, GvHD etc. in whom no regular corneal transplant or other prosthesis is feasible.