Dr. Juan Cruz García Martínez

 Professional experience

• Consultant in Ophthalmic Surgery, dedicated to Refractive Surgery and Cataract Surgery at Quirón Hospital, Valencia (2010-present)
• Medical director and chief surgeon of the anterior segment, dedicated to refractive surgery and cataract surgery with multifocal control and Head of the Medical Retina Unit and Glaucoma Surgery Unit at the Juan Cruz García Ophthalmology Institute (2007-present)
• Ophthalmological surgeon consultant specialized in cataracts at the Cantabria Institute of Ophthalmology, Santander (2007-2009)
• Specialist in refractive surgery and cataract surgery at Vissum Corporación Madrid (2007-2009)
• Consultant ophthalmologic surgeon specialist in cataracts and Head of Refractive Surgery and Virgen del Mar Hospital (2003-2009)
• Consultant surgeon ophthalmologic specialist cataracts and Head of Refractive Surgery in Fuensanta Clinic (2005-2007)
• Consultant surgeon ophthalmologist specialist cataracts in Santa Elena Clinic (2004-2005)
• Ophthalmological surgeon consultant as a medical specialist who performs cataract procedures that attend patients coming from the US at Jolin Clinical Hospital (2004-2005)
• Consultant surgeon ophthalmologist specialist in cataracts in Coro Clinic (2003-2005)
• Ophthalmologic surgeon consultant specialized in MD cataracts. Anderson International Hospital (2002-2004)
• Consultant surgeon ophthalmologist specialist cataracts Sanatorium San Francisco de Asis (2003-2004)
• Specialist in advanced cataract surgery with phacoemulsification and topical anesthesia, myopia- astigmatism with Excimer laser -Lasik-, glaucoma and retina Medical at Nuestra Señora América Polyclinic and Nuestra Señora América Clinic (1994-2005)
• Consultant surgeon ophthalmologist specialist in cataracts in Real Vision Clinic (1999-2001)
• Specialist in Cataracts with phacoemulsification and Topical Anesthesia at the National Institute of Health, INSALUD, with more than 2000 interventions (1994-2000)
• Optional specialist of Area in the Ophthalmology Service in the INSALUD Hospital Virgen de la Concha, Zamora (1993)
• Internal Medical Resident of Ophthalmology at the University Clinical Hospital of Salamanca (1989-1992)

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 Sub-specialties

• Cataract and intraocular lens surgery
• Refractive surgery

 Teaching posts

• Professor in the Bachelor of Medicine at the University of Salamanca (1990-1992)
• Teacher in refractive surgery and cataract, many residents of ophthalmology in NH hospitals and private hospitals

 Education

• Graduated in Medicine from the University of Zaragoza, Spain (1986)
• Specialist in Ophthalmology at the University Hospital of Salamanca via MIR (1992)
• Doctorate in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Salamanca, Spain (1992)

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 Publications and conferences

• Proliferation of epithelial cells of the lens in different models of intraocular lenses. "In vitro" study. LXVII SOE Congress of the Research Section (1991)
• Study of the antimitotic effect of different chemotherapeutic cultures in epithelial cells of the lens. LXVII Congress of the SOE Research Section (1991)
• Comparative study of the effect of interferon alfa 2-b on the proliferation "in vitro" of the epithelial cells of the lens and the endothelial cells of the cornea. LXIX Congress of the Research Section of the SOE, Communication 645, Santiago de Compostela, (1993)
• Antiproliferative effect of epithelial cells of doxorubicin, thiotepa and interferon lens in cultures. A-280 of the European Congress of Intraocular Implants IX and European Symposium of Refractive Surgery (1991)
• A comparative study of the growth of rabbit corneal endothelium in culture using fetal bovine serum (FBS) and epidermal growth factor. A-281, IX European Congress of Intraocular Lens Implants, Refractive Surgery and European Symposium (1991)
• Antiproliferative effect in vitro of interferon alone and associated with doxorubicin and thiotepa in lens eitelial cells. 0889 Association for Eye Research, 33rd Annual Meeting and Joint Annual Meeting with ECOFS, Aachen, Germany (1993)
• Opacification of the posterior capsule: in vitro study of an association of different antiproliferative drugs. V Centennial Ophthalmological Meeting (1993)
• He has published multiple works of the specialty of Ophthalmology

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 Prizes and awards

• Second national prize for the best doctoral thesis of Chibret 1993: "Produced by different antineoplastic effects on the corneal endothelium".
• Use of tissue adhesive cyanoacrylate in the surgery of small incision cataracts. Ophthalmological surgery and lasers. Title granted by the Spanish Society of Ophthalmology (1996)

 Professional membership

• Member of ESCRS (2004-present)
• Member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology (1993-2007)
• Member of the Spanish Society of Ophthalmology (1990-2004)
• Member of the International Society of Ocular Inflammation (1992-1996)
• Member of ASCRS (1994-1998)
• Member of the French Society of Ophthalmology (1996-1998)

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