At LidSUMMIT Tirol you train on the M.A.R.K.O. LID next to human specimens. Every instructor and every participant of the course is a co-developer of that model.

Every national medical society has a small number of specialists who set the standard for their field. In Austrian oculoplastic surgery, that responsibility currently rests with Univ.-Prof. Dr. Birgit Lackner.

As Chair of the Commission for Oculoplastic Surgery (Orbit and Dacryology) of the Austrian Ophthalmological Society (ÖOG), she leads the body that shapes standards, training, and scientific exchange in eyelid, orbital, and lacrimal surgery across Austria. She combines this national role with clinical practice at the Department of Ophthalmology and Optometry of the Medical University of Vienna and her own practices in Vienna and Ebreichsdorf.

Few surgeons embody the full breadth of plastic, reconstructive, and aesthetic surgery like Ao. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Anton Schwabegger, MSc. With more than three decades at the University Clinic Innsbruck, over one hundred peer-reviewed publications, more than 150 international lectures, and a career spanning microsurgery, oncologic reconstruction, hand surgery, and facial surgery, he is one of Austria's most experienced and respected plastic surgeons.

For the Lid Summit, his presence on the faculty means participants learn from a surgeon who has spent a career reconstructing what disease, trauma, and congenital malformation have taken away, including in the most demanding region of all: the face and periorbital area.

Assoc.-Prof. Priv.-Doz. Dr. Gerald Schmidinger is one of the leading corneal surgeons in the German-speaking world. As Deputy Head of the Department of Ophthalmology and Optometry at the Medical University of Vienna — one of the largest eye clinics in Europe — and Director of the Vienna Cornea Bank, he brings world-class expertise in corneal and anterior segment surgery to the Lid Summit.

Reconstructive surgery of the eyelid demands a very particular skillset: the ability to restore not just appearance, but protection, movement, and ocular surface integrity - all within one of the most anatomically demanding and visually exposed regions of the face. Dr. med. univ. Johanna Krapf brings exactly this perspective to the Lid Summit.

Uliana Arturivna Hurayevska-Olenchenko, MD brings all three to the Lidsummit. As Consultant Ophthalmologist at the Regional Ophthalmic Trauma Centre of Saint Panteleimon Hospital in Lviv, Ukraine, she has spent over twenty years treating ocular trauma, burns, and their long-term consequences — and since 2022, she has been at the front line of reconstructing periorbital injuries caused by war.

Managing Partner of ASKIN & CO, deeply networked in Austrian ophthalmology, and a champion for women in the field — why Mariella Zilahi-Lugbauer is key to the Lid Summit.