Christoph Hintschich MD, PhD, FEBO, is heading the Oculoplastic and Orbital Services at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, focused on patient care, teaching and research. He graduated in Ophthalmology at the LMU Munich, before he subspecialized in Eyelid and Orbital Surgery. He was fellow to Charles Beyer-Machule/Munich, J. Richard O. Collin/London and Leo Koornneef/Amsterdam. In 1993 he became full member of ESOPRS, from 2006 – 2014 he was ESOPRS secretary. He is Fellow of the European Board of Ophthalmology (FEBO), and member of EUGOGO and the Orbital Society.
For more than two decades he is running a multidisciplinary orbital clinic and a combined Graves’ clinic. He is organizing the Munich Beyer-Machule course on eyelid surgery and the Munich Orbital Symposium, both on a biennial cycle. Christoph Hintschich has been an invited lecturer and guest surgeon in many countries and had numerous international fellows. His main professional interests are functional and aesthetic eyelid surgery and orbital surgery.