March 13, 2022
Dr. med. Alexander C. Rokohl
Curriculum Vitae
Department of Ophthalmology
Experimental Immunology of the Eye
University of Cologne
Kerpener Straße 62
50937 Cologne, Germany
Tel. (+49)-221-478 7324
Fax. (+49)-221-478 84591
Scientific career
2011 – 2017 Study of Medicine at the University of Cologne
2018 Doctorate degree (Dr. med.), (magna cum laude) at the University of Cologne
2018 Since 2018 Residency at the Department of Ophthalmology, University Hospital of Cologne
2019 Since June 2019 Clinician-Scientist (Gerok) at the Post-Doc level in Project P4
2021 Since April 2021 Clinician-Scientist in the Cologne Clinician Scientist Program (CCSP)
Prizes and honors
2022 Brewitt Publication Award – Professional Association of German Ophthalmologists
2022 Research Grant – Faculty of Medicine of the University of Cologne
2021 Science Award Dry Eye and Blepharitis/Meibomian Gland Dysfunction – German Society of Ophthalmology
2021 Research Grant – Nolting Foundation
2021 Research Grant – Paul und Brigitte Gilen Foundation
2021 Dr. Georg-Award – Association of Rhenish-Westphalian Ophthalmologists
2020 Research Grant – Faculty of Medicine of the University of Cologne
2020 Research Grant – Cologne Clinician Scientist Program
2019 Dry Eye Research Award – Professional Association of German Ophthalmologists
2019 Gerok Research Grant – Faculty of Medicine of the University of Cologne
2019 Gerok Research Grant – Research Unit FOR2240 – German Research Foundation (DFG)
2019 Award for the best doctoral dissertation – Germany Society of Ophthalmology
2018 Richard Collin ESOPRS Junior Award – European Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
2018 Travel Grant for the 37th Annual Meeting of ESOPRS – German Academic Exchange Service
2017 Travel Grant for the final clinical year – University of Cologne
2014-2016 Scholarship for outstanding students – German Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Rokohl AC, Wagner B, Heindl LM (2021) Chemotherapy-Induced Toxic Orbitopathy with Combined Ischemic Optic Neuropathy and Central Artery Occlusion. Ophthalmology 128 (11):1619. doi:10.1016/j.ophtha.2021.03.035
Heindl LM, Rokohl AC (2021) Orbital implants: material matters. Br J Ophthalmol DOI 10.1136/bjophthalmol-2021-319849
Rokohl AC, Trester M, Naderi P, Loreck N, Zwingelberg S, Bucher F, Pine KR, Heindl LM (2021). Dry anophthalmic socket syndrome – morphological alterations in meibomian glands. Eye (Lond). DOI 10.1038/s41433-021-01426-z.
Rokohl AC, Trester M, Guo Y, Adler W, Jaeger VK, Loreck N, Mor JM, Pine KR, Heindl LM (2020) Dry anophthalmic socket syndrome – Standardized clinical evaluation of symptoms and signs. Ocul Surf 18: 453-459 DOI 10.1016/j.jtos.2020.05.001
Heindl LM, Trester M, Guo Y, Zwiener F, Sadat N, Pine NS, Pine KR, Traweger A, Rokohl AC (2020) Anxiety and depression in patients wearing prosthetic eyes. Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol DOI 10.1007/s00417-020-04908-0
Rokohl AC, Loreck N, Wawer Matos PA, Zwingelberg S, Augustin M, Dewald F, Grajewski RS, Klein F, Lehmann C, Heindl LM (2020) More than loss of taste and smell: burning watering eyes in coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19). Clin Microbiol Infect DOI 10.1016/j.cmi.2020.08.018
Rokohl AC, Trester M, Pine KR, Heindl LM (2019) Risk of breakage of cryolite glass prosthetic eyes. Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol 257: 437-438 DOI 10.1007/s00417-018-4155-x
Rokohl AC, Adler W, Koch KR, Mor JM, Jia R, Trester M, Pine NS, Pine KR, Heindl LM (2019) Cryolite glass prosthetic eyes-the response of the anophthalmic socket. Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol 257: 2015-2023 DOI 10.1007/s00417-019-04395-y
Rokohl AC, Koch KR, Adler W, Trester M, Trester W, Pine NS, Pine KR, Heindl LM (2018) Concerns of anophthalmic patients-a comparison between cryolite glass and polymethyl methacrylate prosthetic eye wearers. Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol 256: 1203-1208 DOI 10.1007/s00417-018-3942-8