Dr. Lluís Cavero

Head of the Department of Pediatric Ophthalmology at ICR

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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

• 34 articles, 10 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 Catalan Society of Ophthalmology.
• Member of the Spanish Society of Ophthalmology.
• Member of the Spanish Society of Implanto-Refractive Ocular Surgery.
• Member of the Spanish Society of Strabismus and Pediatric Ophthalmology.
• Member of the Spanish Society of Pediatric Ophthalmology (SEDOP).
• Member of the Medical and Health Science Academy of Catalonia and the Baleraric Islands.
• Member of the MyOPedia Investigator Group.
• Member of the European Myopia Society (EuMyS).

International Languages

English

Additional Information

• Reviewer of the international scientific journals Medical Research Journal, International Journal of Ophthalmic Pathology, BMC Pediatrics Springer Nature and Graefe’s Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology.
• Speaker of 165 communications, 40 of them of international scope.

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