DRA. MARÍA ELENA MARÍN VALDÉS

Ophthalmologist.
License number: 38224

ACADEMIC TRAINING

1984 – 1990: Higher Institute of Medical Sciences of Havana, Cuba. Doctor of Medicine (extraordinary prize)

1990 – 1995: Specialist in Ophthalmology

1998: Spanish Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery

2001: Spanish Title of Medical Specialist in Ophthalmology

Specializations in Clinical Ophthalmology at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in Florida USA, Orbital and Oculoplastic Unit at the Xeral Hospital of Galicia in Santiago de Compostela and at the Barraquer Clinic in Barcelona in orbital pathology and ocular motility.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Most part of her career held in Havana (Cuba) – Hermanos Ameijeiras Clinical Surgical Hospital, Galicia. Stays in Havana as an assistant professor and in Mexico in the Medical-Surgical Retina Unit

Xeral Hospital of Galicia and USP Ophthalmological Hospital Santa Teresa in A Coruña.

Tres Torres Ophthalmological Institute (IOTT) in Barcelona. Collaborating doctor. Specialist in refractive surgery and anterior segment.

Currently in:

GMD OCULAR – Digest Ophthalmology – Badalona. (Barcelona) Collaborating doctor.

GMD OCULAR – Catalan Healthcare Services – Barcelona. GMD OCULAR – Clínica del Vallès -Sabadell. (Barcelona)

Coordinator of the ophthalmology department and surgical area.

GMD VALLES, Centre Oftalmòlogic – Terrassa. (Barcelona) Medical director, ophthalmology department and centre administrator.

DOCTUS Consultoris de Catalunya – Tàrrega (Lleida) Collaborating doctor.

DOCTUS Consultoris de Catalunya – La Seu d’Urgell (Lleida) Collaborating physician.

ACTIVITIES IN RESEARCH

Participation in national and international research and development projects as well as research and treatment of uveal melanoma and work in development and research on orbital pathology and particularly onco-ophthalmology, both carried out in Havana Cuba.

Publication of scientific documents on different clinical studies in national and international specialized journals and books in Spain and America, such as:

Vitrectomy for pars plana in the extraction of CEIO.

Autoplasty conjunctival epithelium in the primary pterygium.

Surgical treatment of epimacular membranes

Diabetic retinopathy, among others. Co-author in several books on Orbital Pathology published in 1997-1999 -2002 and Diabetic Retinopathy published 2006 by Edika med ,

Member of the American Society of Ophthalmology, Latin American Association of surgeons of the anterior segment, Pan-American Society of Ophthalmology and Catalan Society of Ophthalmology.