Oumaima Aissa
MD-PhD candidate
Oumaima Aissa is a medical student at the VU. In 2018 she did a scientific internship at the ophthalmology department as part of her research minor and her honours programme. Her research focused on the association between visual impairments and sleep disturbances. She also did her scientific internship at our department, in which she performed a systematic review and meta-analysis on the prevalence of sleep disorders in various eye disorders. Oumaima has been accepted as a MD-PhD candidate and, in addition to her internships, studies obstructive sleep apnea in serosa patients.