Vincenzo Ferrara

Vincenzo Ferrara is an Italian vitreoretinal surgeon. He graduated in medicine from the University of Pavia in 1986 and specialised in ophthalmology there in 1990. He trained in episcleral surgery under H. Lincoff and I. Kreissig, then focused on vitreous surgery for proliferative vitreoretinopathy, macular surgery, secondary intraocular lens implantation and complicated cataract. He worked at San Raffaele Hospital in Castellanza and the University of Varese from 1990 to 2001, was a senior surgeon at the University Eye Clinic in Tübingen in 1997 and 1998, and was adjunct professor of vitreoretinal pathology and surgery at the Varese specialisation school from 1995 to 2007. He headed the vitreoretinal unit at SS. Trinità Hospital in Arona and Borgomanero until 2015 and in 2016 became head of the ophthalmology department at Ospedale degli Infermi in Biella. He has taught on the International Tübingen Detachment Course and the Thessaloniki Vitreoretinal Summer School.