Josef Hycl, M.D. Ph.D. 

Josef Hycl, M.D., PhD

surgeon and consulatant

(*1961 in Most) Medical director of NeoVize. Cofounder of the NeoVize Eye Clinic where he works as a doctor and medical director.

Dr. Josef Hycl, CSc. Is a graduate from the Faculty of General Medicine of Prague Charles University. Dr. Hycl passed the first and second degrees of the qualification examination in eye surgery. He was awarded CSc. degree in 1998 by defending his dissertation on the subject of "Correction of High Myopia by Extracting Clear Lens". After graduation he worked at the Eye Clinic of the First Faculty of Medicine of Charles University in Prague and at the Lexum Eye Clinic. He worked in abroad as well - he worked for the prestigious clinic of Ultralase in Great Britain and in the London Centre for Refractive Surgery. During his practice he worked as the Chief of Staff at the Eye Department of the General Teaching Hospital, the Chief of Staff at the Lexum Eye Clinic, an assistant specialist at the Lexum Eye Clinic and the medical director of the Lexum Eye Clinic.

Dr. Josef Hycl is an assistant specialist at the First Eye Clinic of the Faculty of Medicine of Prague Charles University where he gives lectures to medical students on the subject of cataract and refractive surgery.

Dr. Hycl is the first doctor in the Czech Republic to have performed laser eye correction by means of femtosecond laser and also the first doctor to have introduced Zeiss VisuMax femtosecond laser for routine use in the Czech Republic. In ophthalmology he further deals with cataract microsurgery, refractive surgery by means of laser and implantation methods, ICRS implantation, glaucoma surgery and cornea disorders. He has performed more than 19 thousand eye surgeries during his practice.

Dr. Josef Hycl has completed a number of study programmes at clinics in the USA, Germany, Austria and France. He is the author of more than 40 domestic and foreign scientific publications. He has delivered more than 200 scientific lectures and information at domestic and foreign symposia. He is the author of a textbook on eye medicine and Atlas of Ophthalmology and other books. Dr. Hycl is a member of the Czech Society of Ophthalmology, the Czech Medical Chamber and the J.E.P. Medical Association. Dr. Hycl is a member of the Board of Supervisors of the Czech Society of Refractive and Cataract Surgery (ČSRKCH). He is also memeber of American Academy of Ophthalmology, American Society of Refractive Surgeons, European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons and New York Academy of Science