Dr. Stodulka was awarded Sliver Medal from the Czech Senate for all his achievements in eye surgery, namely for the introduction of the following surgical methods in the Czech Republic: laser cataract surgery (February 2012), lasik (1994) and femtosecond lasik (2008), micro incision cataract surgery (2001), Boston artificial cornea implantation and several others.
Laser cataract surgeries on the VICTUS femtosecond platform, introduced in the Czech Republic and Europe by Dr. Stodulka and Gemini Eye Clinic, attract the attention of ophthalmologists and eye surgeons from abroad.
The surgeons become interested particularly in experience with this method with which Gemini has already treated more than 500 patients. At the end of May 2012 Gemini in Zlin hosted five eye surgeons from all around the world – two from Venezuela, on from Saudi Arabia and two surgeons from Belgium. The surgeons were present to surgeries performed by VICTUS and they had the possibility to discuss Dr. Stodulka`s experience with the platform.
It has already been a tradition for Dr. Stodulka and his wife to attend the official celebration of Czech President Vaclav Klaus` birthday. This year the event was held in the Prague Castle on June 19th.
Not only actors bring golden statuettes from Cannes. A similar one Dr. Stodulka is bringing home from the French town where he lectured on his experience with more than 600 laser cataract surgeries at OSCARS international ophthalmological congress.
Dr. Stodulka received the golden award for the best video in the cathegory of “New intraocular lens for presbyopia treatment”. It is a great success for Gemini Eye Clinic.
GEMINI Eye Clinics newly disposes of the latest femtosecond laser Z6 (Ziemer, Switzerland). The laser is a breakthrough in femtosecond laser technology and in laser eye surgery and is designed to perform even the most complex eye surgeries.
The so called Z6 laser has several unique qualities which differentiate it from other lasers used in modern ophthalmology. The laser produces the most gentle pulses out of all the femtosecond lasers manufactured for eye surgery.
Dr. Stodulka, the head surgeon of GEMINI Eye Clinic, has used the Z6 laser as the first in the world for implantation of Boston-type artificial cornea. Implantation of artificial cornea replaces the very damaged or opaque cornea of the patient and is often the only surgery means which can restore the vision in people who have been blind for many years. The first patient treated by laser-assisted artificial Boston-type cornea implantation was a twenty-four-year old woman from Brno, Czech Republic.
GEMINI in Zlin and Dr. Stodulka were visited by five eye surgeons from Antwerp, Belgium who came to see the operation rooms and laser cataract surgeries performed by Dr. Stodulka on the VICTUS femtosecond laser platform.
Yesterday Gemini Eye Clinic reached the number of 300 laser cataract surgeries on VICTUS femtosecond laser platform. The clinic thus became the worldwide leader in the number of laser cataract surgeries on this laser platform.
Laser cataract surgeries and laser lens surgeries have been a topic for discussion also within the field of eye medicine in the USA. The American ophthalmologists were very impressed by new VICTUS femtosecond laser platform on which Dr. Stodulka gave a lecture and presentation at the ASCRS meeting of American ophthalmologists in Chicago with the attendance of thousands of eye doctors from all around the world.
In present, dr. Stodulka`s Gemini Eye Clinic has been an eye care facility with the most laser cataract surgeries on the VICTUS femtosecond laser platform world-wide. One of the patients of Dr. Stodulka who were operated by the new method was also the Czech president Vaclav Klaus.
The new laser method for cataract surgeries makes the surgery more gentle, safer and it significantly improves the precision of the surgery steps. The use of laser in cataract surgeries might be seen as a precursor of robotic surgery. In the small eye space, the method means a step forward within the development and technology in the field of eye medicine.
On Tuesday 20th March 2012, Dr. Stodulka performed the one hundredth laser cataract surgery with the VICTUS femtosecond laser platform in Zlin. Gemini Eye Clinic is thus the only eye care facility in the Czech Republic equipped with a laser platform for cataract surgeries. The new laser method for cataract surgeries makes the surgery more gentle, safer and it significantly improves the precision of the surgery steps in comparison with the traditional method.
On Saturday, 10th March 2012, the 4th International Symposium “Advances in diagnosis and treatment of corneal diseases” in Wisła, Poland. Dr. Stodulka, head surgeon of Gemini Eye Clinic, participated actively by giving two lectures. The first one dealing with lamellar corneal transplantation (DMEK).
In his second lecture, Dr. Stodulka shared his experience with a newly introduced method in cataract surgery – femtosecond laser cataract surgery with the VICTUS platform. Gemini Eye Clinic has been the first eye care facility to introduce this surgery in Europe. The program was enriched by a giant slalom skiing in which Dr. Stodulka won the second place and was awarded a silver medal.
