Dr. Lluís Cavero

Head of the Department of Pediatric Ophthalmology at ICR

  Download Complete CV

Education

• Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery at University of Barcelona (Hospital Clínic de Barcelona) with the average qualification of Excellent in 1991.
• Bachelor’s Degree with the qualification of Excellent.
• Specialty in Ophthalmology at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Hospitals Vall d’Hebron).
• Degree of Doctor in Medicine and Surgery (Cum Laude) at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (1997). Doctoral Thesis: Encapsulación de 5-fluoruridina en liposomas con péptidos de superficie en un modelo animal de vitreorretinopatía proliferativa: efecto inhibitorio y toxicidad.

Research

• 33 articles, 9 of them with international impact factor.
• 3 books.
• 17 chapters of ophthalmology books.

Prizes

• Extraordinary Doctorate Award from the Department of Surgery of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
• National Chibret-MSD Award for the best Doctoral Thesis in Ophthalmology in 1997.
• First and second prizes at the 3rd Biennial of Video-Ophthalmology of the Catalan Society of Ophthalmology in 1995 for the videos: Tratamiento quirúrgico de la membrana subretiniana macular and Cirugía bimanual en el tratamiento de la proliferación vítreorretiniana.
• First prize (Best communication) at the III Congress of Sociedad Española de Retina y Vitreo in Madrid, 1997: Termoterapia con láser infrarrojo en los tumores coroideos posteriores.
• Finalist of the Arruga Award 2005.
• Award for the best communication to Congresses of the Fundació Hospital de Nens de Barcelona in 2015 and 2016.

Medical Societies

• Member of the Societat Catalana d´Oftalmologia.
• Member of the Sociedad Española de Oftalmología.
• Member of the Sociedad Española de Cirugía Ocular Implanto-Refractiva.
• Member of the Sociedad Española de Estrabología y Oftalmología Pediátrica.
• Member of the Sociedad Española de OftalmoPediatría (SEDOP).
• Member of the Acadèmia de Ciències Mèdiques i de la Salut de Catalunya i Balears.

International Languages

English

Additional Information

• Reviewer of the international scientific journals Medical Research Journal, International Journal of Ophthalmic Pathology and BMC Pediatrics Springer Nature.
• Speaker of 163 communications, 40 of them of international scope.

License number 27947