Pavel STODULKA

Founder, chief surgeon and CEO of Gemini Eye Clinics in the Czech Republic and Vienna with 350 employees performing over 40 000 surgeries annually. In 2022 he founded corneal eye bank. AECOS Europe President (2022-24), ESCRS treasurer (2025-26) and council member (2017-2025). He teaches ophthalmology at Charles University in Prague and gave over 1 000 presentations worldwide and holds several patents regarding ophthalmic devices. The world firsts: presbyopic diffractive phakic IOL implantation (2014). Co-inventor of CAPSULaser and performed world first CAPSULaser capsulotomy (2015) and received the 1st price in innovative category for CAPSULaser video at ESCRS meeting in Copenhagen (2016). World first hydrophobic trifocal FineVision IOL (2016) implantation and EDOF LuxSmart IOL (2021) implantation. He designed presbyopic bio-synthetic collagen corneal inlay and performed its world first implantation (2018). He performed the world first femtomatrix laser cataract surgery (2019), the presbyopic SMILE (2023) and the first hyperopic SMILE outside of clinical study (2024) and intraocular modification of monofocal IOL into multifocal by laser refractive index change (2024). Surgeon dedicated to innovations who performed the first in his country lasik (1994), MICS (2001), femtolasik (2006), DMEK (2006), FLACS femtocataract (2012) and many other surgeries. High volume surgeon with over 50 000 surgeries. He happened to return vision by Boston KPRO to several patients, blind for many years including a man blind for over 53 years which was published as the longest blindness ever cured. He received several honors including Emilio Campos Medal Lecture for innovations from Italian Ophthalmology Society (2022) and the reward from a president of the Czech Republic for services to the state (2022).