Dr. Manuel Romera

Medical license number: 08/35167

Director of the Oculoplastic and Orbital Unit and the Neuro-Ophthalmology Unit of ICOftalmología.
Member of the Ocular Trauma Unit since 2003.

Training:

• Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery from the Central University of Venezuela, 1998. Magna cum laude honours and special end-of-degree prize from the Faculty of Medicine. Prizes in Physiological Sciences, Biochemistry and Immunology.
• Ophthalmology Specialist Training at Hospital de Vall d'Hebrón, 2000-2004.
• Master in Immunology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, 2001. Certificate of Research Proficiency.

Areas of interest:

• Oculoplastic surgery, eyelid and ocular surface reconstruction surgery.
• Nasolacrimal duct surgery.
• Orbital surgery.
• Neuro-ophthalmology.

Usual medical and surgical activity:

• Eyelid malposition surgery: ptosis, eyelid retraction, entropion, ectropion, congenital eyelid defects.
• Reconstructive eye surgery in facial paralysis.
• Reconstructive surgery following orbital trauma and eye burns.
• Ocular surface reconstruction procedures: dermal and mucosal grafts, amniotic membrane graft.
• Management of anophthalmic socket, enucleation, evisceration and ocular prostheses.
• Dacryocystorhinostomy, repair of nasolacrimal duct lesions and paediatric nasolacrimal intubation.
• Orbital tumours and thyroid-related orbitopathy.
• Evaluation and diagnosis of neurological diseases with visual impairment: optic neuropathies, oculomotor nerve palsy, disorders of the pupil, brain lesions, intracranial hypertension.
• Assessment of magnetic resonance and computed axial tomography images of the central nervous system and orbits.

Scientific activity:

• 31 publications in national and international journals.
• 44 presentations at courses, congresses and symposiums.
• 64 communications at congresses and symposiums.
• Scientific digital illustration, medical illustration and graphic design applied to biomedical sciences.