- TFOS Ambassadors
Norway
Sten Ræder
Sten Raeder is the founder and head physician of The Norwegian Dry Eye Clinic (est. 2012) and The Eye Health Clinic (est. 2018). Raeder is a physician and specialist in Ophthalmology from the Oslo University Hospital/Stavanger University Hospital, Norway. He has medical degree and doctorate in corneal diseases from the University of Oslo, Norway (Novel technology in regenerative medicine: Eye bank storage of limbal explant cultures for transplantation). Raeder has published about 40 scientific articles primarily in the field of ocular surface and refractive surgery, and he has co-authored the Norwegian and Nordic Dry Eye Guidelines. He is the author of a textbook on ophthalmic diagnostics that has been used by several thousand medical students since 2004. At Oslo University Hospital, Raeder has taught several hundred medical students in the diagnosis and treatment of eye diseases. In 2008–2009, he conducted research at Harvard Medical School, USA, and was a visiting scientist at Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Japan. In 2011, Raeder founded of the Ophthalmic tissue bank at Stavanger University Hospital, and between 2011–2013 he served as Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Bergen. In the period 2012–2017, he worked as a corneal refractive surgeon, and in 2012, he began working as a private ophthalmologist with an operating grant. He has received nine research and innovation awards, including Norway’s largest healthcare innovation award – the Medinnova Idea Prize. In 2016, Raeder received the European Society of Ophthalmology award for the most promising ophthalmologist/researcher in Norway under the age of 45. For many years, Ræder has been engaged as an advisor by several pharmaceutical companies in the field of dry eye where he plays a key role in ensuring quality and optimizing clinical practice. Furthermore, he is lecturing optometrists on the diagnosis and treatment of dry eye and glaucoma at the National Centre for Optics, Vision and Eye Health at the University of South-Eastern Norway. Finally, he is a senior researcher at the Oslo University Hospital and Norway's representative for the European Club of Ocular Surface & Glaucoma (ECOS-G).
