- TFOS global ambassadors and international chapter affiliate
Moldova
Valeriu Cushnir
Valeriu Cushnir has nearly 40 years of scientific and practical experience, with early learning diplomas in biology, chemistry and physics. He graduated from Nicolae Testemitanu University of Medicine in Chisinau, Moldova in 1977, and specialized in Ophthalmology at the Republican Clinical Hospital. Doctoral studies were conducted between 1989-1992 with the support of his thesis "Clinical-immunological and biochemical deviations of the visual organ in active chronic hepatitis and cirrhosis of the liver." He obtained the scientific degree of doctor in medicine in 1993 at the Institute of Scientific Research in Ophthalmology "Hemholtz" from Moscow City, Russia, where he also completed postdoctoral studies, presenting the doctoral thesis habilitate in medicine: “Clinic, diagnosis, pathogenesis and treatment of ocular pathologies associated with hepatitis B virus infection,” 2001.