[vc_row iw_layout=”wide-bg”][vc_column][vc_row_inner equal_height=”yes” content_placement=”middle”][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][inwave_heading preview_style_1=”” title=”{Dr. Virgilio Galvis Ramirez}”][vc_column_text el_class=”dg-p-doc”]Manager and Founder – Virgilio Galvis Ophthalmological Center
MD. Ophthalmologist, Phd.
Doctor of Research in Surgery and Medical-Surgical Specialties, Vision Sciences lines, University of Oviedo, Spain.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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