Marie-José Tassignon

About Marie-José Tassignon

Past chair and chief of the department of ophthalmology of the University of Antwerp and the Antwerp university hospital, Belgium

If you weren’t an ophthalmologist... 

Fashion was my passion. I considered it a way to help people express their personality through choosing colors and design in which they feel comfortable that was amusing or challenging for others. I realized that pleasing a large group of people would be more difficult than understanding the human body, so I chose medicine.

Do you have any controversial opinions?

I am convinced that we can treat patients with complaints due to congenital, ageing, or post-traumatic vitreous opacities by means of non-invasive surgical technology, provided we know more about the viscosity of the vitreous, and how we can homogenize the vitreous body by means of volumetric approaches of laser vitreolysis.