MD. Ophthalmologist, Phd.
Doctor of Research in Surgery and Medical-Surgical Specialties, Vision Sciences lines, University of Oviedo, Spain.
Supra – specialist in Anterior Segment, Cornea and Refractive Surgery.
- Ophthalmology Specialist. University of Antioquia, San Vicente de Paul Hospital, 1975
- Anterior Segment and Refractive Surgery Santander Ophthalmological Foundation FOSCAL 2000
- Plastic Surgery and Ocular Surface Santander Ophthalmological Foundation FOSCAL 1980
- Anterior Segment 1980 Barraquer Institute of America, Santa Fe de Bogotá
- Ophthalmic Pathology 1981
- Ocular Plastic Surgery 1974 Exchange of ophthalmology services from Manhattan University Eye, Ear Throat to New York Hospital
- Subnormal Vision Exchange of the University of Antioquia Ophthalmology Service and Boston University 1975
- University Teaching Autonomous University of Bucaramanga 1996
- Foscal International Ophthalmology Course – Founding Director January 2006 Floridablanca Colombia
- Annual National and International Congress of Ophthalmology, last participation as a speaker in March 2013
- VI International Congress of Refractive Surgery, Cataract and Glaucoma March 2012 Lima Peru
- III International Congress on Facorefractive Barranquilla Guest 2009 Barranquilla
- Medical Update Congress 2008 Bucaramanga
- Participation in SWINGD 2008 talk in Cartagena
- XXXIII National Congress of Ophthalmology 2008 Cartagena
- XXVIII FUNDONAL Annual Course 2007 Bogota
- II International Congress of Phacorefractive 2007 Barranquilla
- XXVII Annual Course FUNDONAL 2006 speaker experience with EPILASIK Bogotá
- Speaker at the ALCON Advanced Waterfall Symposium in Colombia 2006, Bogotá
- XXXII National Congress of Ophthalmology 2006 Medellin
- 2nd Ibero-American Congress Vision 20/20 Participant and Speaker 2006 Barranquilla
- INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES AND PRESENTATIONS
- Cataract and cornea colloquium Panamanian Society of Ophthalmology Panama May 2013
- ARVO Annual Congress Seattle, USA, May 2013
- ASCRS Congress Houston USA 2013
- ESCRS 30th Congress of the European Cataract and Cornea Society – Milan, Italy 2012
- EUCORNEA IV Congress of the European Cornea Society – Milan, Italy 2012
- FALCOELCHE 2011 Lex Artix Elche Spain 2011
- WORLD KERATOCONUS MEETING Update on diagnostics of keratoconus sensitivity and specificity of topographic keratoconus indices Ouro Preto Brazil 2010
- INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON SURFACE ABLATION FEMTO LASER & CROSS LINKING Instruction surface ablation femtosecond lasers and corneal cross linking Weston Florida 2010
- Crosslinking and Femto Congress – New York, USA 2010
- Medical Fair 2010 – Düsseldorf, Germany
- Technical Visit to Hospitals Spain Germany 2010
- Femtosecond Rings Training Zurich 2009
- International Ophthalmology Summit 2005 Barranquilla
- New Paths in Ophthalmology ALLERGAN Laboratories 2005 Bogotá
- First Place Free Paper at the XXXIV National Congress of Ophthalmology 2010: In Vitro Antibiotic Susceptibility of Fluoroquinolones at the Santander Ophthalmological Foundation-Ardila Lulle Clinic (FOSCAL)., COLOMBIAN SOCIETY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY – August 2010
- Member of the World Keratoconus Society,WORLD KERATOCONUS SOCIETY – August 2010
- LIONS/PAAO 2015 Blindness Prevention Award, PAN AMERICAN OPHTHALMOLOGY ASSOCIATION – August 2015
- NATIONAL COORDINATOR FOR COLOMBIA, NATIONAL VISION 2020 COMMITTEE – 2002
- CONSULTANT FOR THE PREVENTION OF BLINDNESS AND, CHRISTOFFEL BLINDENMISSION – since 1986
- Medal of Merit "Jose Marin Cordoba", President Julio Cesar Turbay Ayala – 1982
- GRAN CRUZ, MAYOR OF BUCARAMANGA LUIS FERNANDO COTE – from 1999
- ORDER OF MERIT “JOSÉ ANTONIO GALÁN”, GOVERNOR OF SANTANDER MIGUEL JESÚS ARENAS PRADA – 1999
- Chairman of the Board of Directors
- International Prosecutor Special Free Trade Zone 2012 to present
- Founding Director
- Virgilio Galvis Ophthalmological Center 1998 to present
- President of the Board of Directorsto
- Santander Ophthalmological Foundation 1994 to present
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Autonomous University of Bucaramanga UNAB 1994 to present
- Minister of Health
- Republic of Colombia Bogotá, Colombia 1998 – 2000
- Dean of the Faculty of Medicine
- Autonomous University of Bucaramanga UNAB 1995
- Director
- Carlos Ardila Lulle Clinic and Medical Center 1993 – 1998
- Professor Department of Surgery
- Health Division, Industrial University of Santander, 1978 – 2005
- Managing director
- Ramón González Valencia University Hospital 1977
- Director
- Santander Ophthalmological Foundation 1976