Professor Elena Tarutta, MD, PhD
Studied medicine at 1st Moscow Medical Institute. Graduated in 1975.
Ph.D. in ophthalmology from Moscow Helmholtz Research Institute for Eye Diseases “New sclera reinforcement surgery and its results in high myopia” (1981). Doctoral thesis: Sclera reinforcement treatment and prevention of complications of progressive myopia in children and adolescents (Moscow Helmholtz Research Institute of Eye Diseases, 1993).
Employment experience:
2009 – Present: Helmholtz National Medical Research Center of Eye Diseases, Moscow: Head of the Department of Pathology of Refraction, Binocular Vision and Ophthalmoergonomics
2003 – 2009: Helmholtz Research Institute of Eye Diseases, Moscow: Head of the Laboratory of Myopic Studies
1998 – 2003: Helmholtz Research Institute of Eye Diseases, Moscow: Professor, Principal Researcher
1987 – 1998: Helmholtz Research Institute of Eye Diseases, Moscow: Senior Researcher
1981 – 1987: Helmholtz Research Institute of Eye Diseases, Moscow: Researcher, Research assistant
1978 – 1981: Helmholtz Research Institute of Eye Diseases, Moscow: postgraduate student
1975 – 1978: All-Union Research Institute of Eye Diseases, Moscow: Research assistant
Fields of research: Pathogenesis, diagnostics and treatment of progressive and complicated myopia, including orthokeratology. Surgical treatment of progressive myopia
Publications: over 400 articles, 40 patents and inventions
Languages: Russian, English
Membership:
- Member of All-Russian Ophthalmological Society
- Member of European Association for Vision and Eye Research (EVER)
