URBANCIC Mojca

medical retina specialist and vitreoretinal surgeon, Head of diabetic retinopathy unit at Eye Hospital, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Slovenia

Education and professional career:

  • 1993 – MD degree – Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • 2000 – ophthalmology specialization – Board certification exam
  • 2002 – postgraduate MSc degree – Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • since 2003 – medical retina specialist and vitreoretinal surgeon at Eye Hospital, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • selected international observerships, courses: Klinik fur Augenheilkunde, Universitats Klinikum Ulm, Ulm, Germany – medical retina (June 2003); Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, Great Britain – vitreoretinal surgery, medical retina (SOE Grant – September, October 2004); European Vitreoretinal Teaching School, Bremen, Germany (May 2005)
  • since 2010 – Head of diabetic retinopathy unit, Eye Hospital, University Medical Centre Ljubljana
  • 2015 – postgraduate PhD degree – Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana (dissertation thesis: The influence of chronic inflammation on visual outcome in patients with proliferative diabetic retinopathy)

Research:

  • member of research team in Slovenian Research Agency’s research projects: Diode laser (980 nm) clinical applications in ophthalmology (2005-2008), Microspectroscopy-based optimisation of the effects of laser pulses on the retina (2016-2019); principal investigator or member of research team in various research projects at University Medical Centre Ljubljana – medical retina (since 2007); member of research team in multicentric study Luminous (2012-2015)
  • Reviewer: Graefe´s Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology, Acta Ophthalmologica

Teaching experience:

  • senior lecturer for ophthalmology – Faculty of Health Care Angela Boškin Jesenice
  • mentor for ophthalmology residents and visiting foreign ophthalmologists
  • examiner –  Slovenian Board certification exam in ophthalmology
  • lectures at various national and international meetings

Bibliography: http://izumbib.izum.si/bibliografije/Y20180928120508-25125.html

Memberships:

  • Slovenian Ophthalmological Society – Slovenian Medical Society
  • Medical Chamber of Slovenia
  • Euretina (European Society of Retina Specialists)
  • iFAN Club (International Fluorescein Angiography Club)
  • ESCRS (European Society for Cataract and Refractive Surgeons)