Dr. Kristina Narfström


Kristina Narfström, PhD, DipECVO Return to ERG Page
Biography	Course Descriptions
Dr. Kristina Narfström is the Ruth M. Kraeuchi Missouri Endowed Professor at the College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Missouri-Columbia, (MU), USA, since 2001. She obtained a DVM degree at the College of Veterinary Medicine in Stockholm, Sweden, 1973, and a PhD at the Department of Ophthalmology, University of Linköping, Sweden, 1985. She was appointed full Professor at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Uppsala, Sweden, 1992, and became a Diplomat the same year of the European College of Veterinary Ophthalmologists. Dr. Narfström’s research interests are mainly comparative hereditary retinal disease processes with emphasis on retinal electrophysiology, morphology and microsurgery. She is author or coauthor of 110 peer reviewed publications and numerous book chapters. Dr. Narfström’s most recent research projects concern treatment strategies for hereditary retinal diseases such as retinal microchip implantation, stem cell therapy and gene augmentation therapy using well defined animal models for human Leber’s Congenital Amaurosis and Retinitis Pigmentosa.	Interpretation of ERG recordings. I. Theory Basic electrophysiology will be applied for the understanding of how to interpret ERG recordings. The theoretical background to the use of various protocols will be given. Interpretation of ERG recordings. II. Practice Practical cases will be discussed and examples given of recordable and non-recordable ERGs. Examples of noise and artifacts obscuring the ERGs will also be given with possible ways of solving these problems.

Dr. Kristina Narfström is the Ruth M. Kraeuchi Missouri Endowed Professor at the College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Missouri-Columbia, (MU), USA, since 2001. She obtained a DVM degree at the College of Veterinary Medicine in Stockholm, Sweden, 1973, and a PhD at the Department of Ophthalmology, University of Linköping, Sweden, 1985. She was appointed full Professor at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Uppsala, Sweden, 1992, and became a Diplomat the same year of the European College of Veterinary Ophthalmologists. Dr. Narfström’s research interests are mainly comparative hereditary retinal disease processes with emphasis on retinal electrophysiology, morphology and microsurgery. She is author or coauthor of 110 peer reviewed publications and numerous book chapters. Dr. Narfström’s most recent research projects concern treatment strategies for hereditary retinal diseases such as retinal microchip implantation, stem cell therapy and gene augmentation therapy using well defined animal models for human Leber’s Congenital Amaurosis and Retinitis Pigmentosa.