Ahmad Samir Alfaar

Through this website, I would like to share my work, activities, ideas, and passion.  My aim is to recruit different technologies and methods to improve the understanding of eye diseases. I am working on building bridges between Medicine, Education, Research, and Informatics (.. even more fields 🙂 ) … Somewhere in the world, they need these bridges to talk and a patient may survive a minute (or more) longer (hopefully healthy) or introduce innovative solutions … My interests are Ophthalmology, Ocular Oncology, Pediatric Oncology, Health Informatics, Research Informatics, Computational Biology, Statistics, and eLearning.

Cancer

• Trends in childhood cancer: Incidence and survival analysis over 45 years of SEER data. Stats Download
• Smoking-Related Disease Impact in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: A Comprehensive Assessment Using Global Burden of Disease Data.
• Suicidal death within a year of a cancer diagnosis: A population‐based study  Download

Eye Cancers

• Declining incidence and improving survival of ocular and orbital lymphomas in the US between 1995 and 2018. Stats Download
• In-Depth Analysis of Incidence and Survival of Lacrimal Gland Malignancies in the United States of America from 1995 to 2018. Download
• The epidemiology of uveal melanoma in Germany: a nationwide report of incidence and survival between 2009 and 2015.  Download
• Uveal melanoma-associated cancers revisited. Download
• Second primary malignancies of eye and ocular adnexa after a first primary elsewhere in the body. Download
• Unilateral retinoblastoma; natural history and an age-based protocol in 248 patients. Download 
• Survival trends for patients with retinoblastoma between 2000 and 2018: What has changed?  Download 
• The epidemiology of adults’ malignant eyelid malignancies in Germany between 2009 and 2015; An analysis of 42,710 patients’ data Download

Eye diseases

• The rising tide of rhegmatogenous retinal detachment in Germany: a nationwide analysis of the incidence, from 2005 to 2021. Stats Download
• The incidence of retinopathy of prematurity in neonates in Germany in 2019; a nationwide epidemiological cohort study. Download
• [Epidemiological impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on enucleation cases in Germany] Download
• FoxP3 expression by retinal pigment epithelial cells: transcription factor with potential relevance for the pathology of age-related macular degeneration Download
• Getting started in Research: What registries can do for you. 

Publications statistics

• Causes of blindness and vision impairment in 2020 and trends over 30 years, and prevalence of avoidable blindness in relation to VISION 2020.  Download
• Trends in prevalence of blindness and distance and near vision impairment over 30 years.  Download
• Global estimates on the number of people blind or visually impaired by cataract: a meta-analysis from 2000 to 2020. Stats Download
• Global estimates on the number of people blind or visually impaired by glaucoma: A meta-analysis from 2000 to 2020. Stats Download

Further Profiles: ResearchGate – ORCiD – Scholar – Publons – Dimensions – ORCID – LOOP – Scopus