Biljana Kostovska
Specialist ophthalmologist and surgeon
Short Biography
Kostovska Biljana was born in 1973 in Skopje, S. Macedonia, where she completed primary and secondary education with excellent results. She graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, at the University “St. Cyril and Methodius”. From 2001 to 2005 she specialized in ophthalmology and obtained the title – specialist ophthalmologist.
Assistant at the Faculty of Medicine from 2005 to 2009. She worked at the University Eye Clinic from 2000 to 2010 at the Department of Anterior Segment. Since 2010 she has been working at “Sistina Ophthalmology” and has a special interest and contribution in refractive surgery.
Membership
Macedonian Medical Chamber;
Association of Ophthalmologists of Macedonia;
European Society for Cataract and Refractive Surgery;
Eastern European Society for Cataract and Refractive Surgery and
European Society of Ophthalmology.
Additional Education
He attends numerous educational events both in the country and abroad. Some of them are:
- 2007 Moorfield Hospital, London, as a fellow of the European Association of Ophthalmologists, in the Department of Cataract Surgery;
- 2010 Oertli course, Phacoemulsification and vitreoretinal surgery, Switzerland;
- 2010-2012 Cataract Surgery, Prof. Dr. Vladimir Feifer
2012 Alcon course, Phacoemulsification and vitreoretinal surgery, Bulgaria - 2013-2014, Vitreoretinal Surgery Prof. Dr. Iva Petkova
- 2014-2015 Vitreoretinal Surgery, Prof. Dr. Zoran Tomic, Milos Clinic, Belgrade;
- 2015-2018 Vitreoretinal Surgery, Prof. Dr. Ratko Lazić;
- 2015-2018 LASIK, implantation of phakic lenses, multifocal and toric lenses, eye traumas Prof. Dr. Nikica Gabric, Svjetlost Clinic, Zagreb.
Publications and Research
He is the author and co-author of over 130 scientific papers. He is part of the expert editorial board of the books:
- “Fundamentals of Ophthalmology” by Dr. Cynthia A. Bradford and
- “Clinical Procedures in Eye Examination” by Nancy B. Carlson and Daniel Kurt.
Participation in conferences
He actively participates in national and international conferences. Some of them are:
XIV Congress of the European Society of Ophthalmology, Madrid 2003
Dry eye in patients with diabetes;
Prevalence of Sjögren’s syndrome in chronic hepatitis C.
XXXIV Congress of the European Society of Refractive and Cataract Surgeons, Copenhagen
2016
Vitrectomy and secondary lens implantation, following a complication of phacoemulsification.
XXXV Congress of the European Society of Refractive and Cataract Surgeons, Lisbon 2017
Visual acuity correction using two methods – Laser keratomileusis and ICL.
VIII Mediterranean Retina Meeting, Dubrovnik 2019
Oral presentation on The importance of thrombophilia screening in young patients with
retinal vein occlusion.