Press Releases

OIA imaging trophy for best OCT won by Edinburgh photographer using SPECTRALIS

Hemel Hempstead, UK – The coveted Ophthalmic Imaging Association award for best ocular coherence tomography of 2016 has been awarded to Mark Hope, Medical Photographer from The Princess Alexandra Eye Pavilion. His winning OCT image was captured using the SPECTRALIS Imaging Platform and shows a 19 year old female patient who has bilateral adult vitelliform […]

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Brighton Opticians enjoy first Heidelberg OCT LIVE roadshow of 2017

Hemel Hempstead, UK – The Heidelberg Engineering Academy delivered their first OCT LIVE roadshow of the year in Brighton on Tuesday 17th January to a fully booked room of 60 optometrists and dispensing opticians. Local optometrist Steven Borkum, from Peter Marson Optometrists, arranged for three of his patients to be scanned on the

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Keynote speakers revealed for Heidelberg Engineering Academy Retina Masterclass

Hemel Hempstead, UK – The Heidelberg Engineering Academy have confirmed their keynote speakers for the 6th Annual Retina Masterclass 2017 as Professor Usha Chakravarthy, Queens University Belfast, alongside Dr Roberto Gallego-Pinazo, University and Polytechnic Hospital La Fe of Valencia, Spain, and faculty chairman Pearse Keane, Moorfields Eye Hospital. “This year’s Masterclass will look at non-invasive […]

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Heidelberg Engineering and Gauss Medical Corporation Establish an Ophthalmic Healthcare IT Joint Venture in China

Heidelberg Engineering and its long-time distribution partner in China, Gauss Medical Corporation, have established a joint venture for the supply of healthcare IT solutions to the Chinese ophthalmology market. Heidelberg, Germany – The joint venture company, Gauss Infomed, will offer Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS) and Electronic Medical Record (EMR) software, along with other […]

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Arianna Schoess joins Heidelberg Engineering Board of Directors

Heidelberg Engineering GmbH, the ophthalmic imaging solutions company, has appointed Arianna Schoess as Managing Director. In her new role, she joins the two company founders, Dr. Gerhard Zinser and Christoph Schoess, and Dr. Kester Nahen in the Board of Directors. Heidelberg, Germany – Arianna Schoess joined Heidelberg Engineering in 2013 and has since been instrumental […]

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Heidelberg Engineering to offer over 100 hours of education in 2017

Hemel Hempstead, UK – The Heidelberg Engineering Academy will be hosting more educational events than ever before in 2017. A commitment to providing first class training on OCT and fundus imaging will see the Academy offer over 100 hours of education in 2017. “The Academy has carefully constructed an educational programme to cater for the […]

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Heidelberg Engineering to offer over 50 hours of CET nationwide in 2017

Hemel Hempstead, UK – The Heidelberg Engineering Academy will be hosting more educational events than ever before in 2017. A commitment to providing first class training on OCT and fundus imaging will see the Academy visit more than 10 cities, offer over 100 hours of education and deliver over 50 hours of CET. “The Academy […]

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Christmas edition of highly regarded imaging symposium held in Vienna

Hemel Hempstead, UK – 349 participants from 44 countries attended the 14th International SPECTRALIS Symposium (ISS) on the 25-26th November at the Garden Palace Liechtenstein in Vienna, Austria. “Participants enjoyed lectures devoted to cutting-edge research and clinical applications using diagnostic imaging tools for retina and glaucoma from some of the world’s most eminent ophthalmic professionals”, […]

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OCT Angiography Module for SPECTRALIS now available

Heidelberg Engineering has started delivering the OCT-Angiography Module to SPECTRALIS® customers outside the United States. The OCT Angiography Module non-invasively produces detailed three-dimensional representations of the perfused retinal and choroidal vasculatures. Heidelberg, Germany – The SPECTRALIS® expandable diagnostic imaging platform can be upgraded with the OCT Angiography Module to perform non-invasive, layer-by-layer examinations of flow […]

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Dr. Gerhard Zinser receives Founders’ Award of the Optometric Glaucoma Society

Heidelberg, Germany – Dr. Gerhard Zinser, co-founder and Managing Director of Heidelberg Engineering, is the first non-clinician to be honored with this prestigious award. Earlier this year he was also elected as part of The Ophthalmologist’s Power List of the top 100 most influential people in ophthalmology. The Founders’ Award was handed over by Dr. […]

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