Dr. Andrea C Leber was born in 1964 in Switzerland. She studied Veterinary Medicine at the University of Zuerich, Switzerland and graduated in 1988. After a 3 year ophthalmology residency with Prof Bernhard Spiess and a thesis about ‘Electroretinography in Beagles’ she worked as staff ophthalmologist in a small animal clinic in Switzerland. She started her own Ophthalmology Clinic in 1993. She worked closely with two Zoos in Basel and the school for guiding dogs for the blind in Allschwil. In 2000 she moved to Mobile, Alabama, USA, started the ECFVG program and the Eye Clinic for Animals. 2003 the Lebers transferred to Groningen in the Netherlands where Dr. Leber restarted her own referral clinic. In August 2005 they moved to Virginia, USA. Dr. Leber has finished the program for foreign graduates in April 2006 and works in the Animal Eye Care Clinic, Chesapeake for Dr. Brad Nadelstein