Dr. Grazia Pertile currently heads the Department of Ophthalmology, Sacrocuore Hospital, Negrar-Verona, in Italy. She is one of the few surgeons in Europe who performs a surgical treatment in selected cases of exudative macular degeneration and uses two techniques: macular translocation and autologous choroidal graft transplantation. Grazia built her extensive experience in the treatment of severe retinal diseases at the Middelheim Hospital in Antwerp, Belgium. The department of Ophthalmology of this hospital represented an international referral centre for trauma cases, recurrent retinal detachment, retinopathy of prematurity and exudative macular degeneration.