DRA MARÍA JOSÉ ROMERO RODRÍGUEZ

Ophthalmologist.
License number: 41156

Bachelor of Medicine from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in July 2003 with 30% with honors. She finishes the university career in the United States (Rush Presbytarian St. Luke’s Medical Centre, University of Illinois at Chicago Hospitals, West Side Veterans Hospital, New York Presbyterian Hospital and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre) and in France (Faculté Lariboisière Saint-Louis, Université Paris VII). Finally, she validates the Bachelor of Medicine in the United States (ECFMG Certified), and obtains the Research sufficiency in 2009 at the Graduate School of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

She began her training in Orthopedic Surgery, deciding to change speciality to Ophthalmology because of her interest in microsurgery, thus completing her Ophthalmology speciality at the Mutua de Terrassa University Hospital.

Due to her admiration for the microsurgery associated with the musculoskeletal system, she decided to expand her training in oculoplastic, lacrimal and orbital surgery. She has a Master degree in aesthetic medicine and facial antiaging ( Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona). She has attended numerous congresses, courses and training stays in national and international territory. To highlight some of them:

– 2003 Practical course of surgical approach and suture techniques. Rush Presbytarian St Luke’s Medical Centre, Chicago, Illinois. USA

– 2007 Microsurgery Course. Consorci Sanitari de Parc Taulí, Sabadell, Barcelona.

– 2009 Training stay in Oculoplastic, Lacrimal and Orbital Surgery in the prestigious Wills Eye Institute. Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, USA.

– 2012 Training stay in Oculoplastic, Lacrimal and Orbital Surgery at the Clinic Hospital of Barcelona

– 2013 Atelier Practique Orbito-Palpebrale. Live Surgery Day. Paris.

– 2013 I Video symposium on Oculoplastic Surgery. Oculoplastics Step by Step. Madrid

– 2013 Orbital, lacrimal and oculoplastic surgery module. European School of Advanced Studies (ESASO). Malta

– 2017 Theoretical-practical formative stay on Facial Voluminization. Barcelona

– 2017 III Course of Surgical Anatomy of the Orbit. Barcelona.

– 2017 II Course of Aesthetic Medicine of the Spanish Society of Facial Plastic Surgery. Madrid.

– 2018 I Practical Course of Facial Lipofilling. Spanish Society of Facial Plastic Surgery. Córdoba

She works in the Hospital Quirónsalud del Vallès and in private sector clinics.

She is a member of the Spanish Society of Ocular and Orbital Plastic Surgery, the Catalan Society of Ophthalmology and The Spanish Society of Facial Plastic Surgery

She has written numerous specialized publications in ophthalmology and has participated in several research groups.

LECTURES IN COURSES AND CONGRESSES:

1. Romero MJ, Saint-Gerons M. Síndrome neuropsiquiàtric com manifestació inicial de la malaltia  de Whipple IX Trobades Oftalmològiques de Catalunya, Tortosa. June 2011.

2. Romero MJ, Saint-Gerons. Giant Arteriovenous malformation and Horner Syndrome: A case report. 10th European Neuro-Ophthalmology Society Meeting, Barcelona. May 2011.

3. Romero MJ, Arcediano M. Orbitotomia lateral. Nuestra experiencia en la Mútua de Terrassa. 41 Congrés de la Societat Catalana d’Oftalmologia. Nov 2010.

4. Romero MJ, Arcediano M. Exoftàlmia pulsativa com a forma de presentació d’un meningoencefalocele orbitari. 41 Congrés de la Societat Catalana d’Oftalmologia. Nov 2010.

5. Arcediano M, Romero MJ. L’ ABC dels tumors orbitaris. 41 Congrés de la Societat Catalana d’Oftalmologia. Nov 2010.

6. Romero MJ, Salvador A. DSAEK vs QPP. 1er Curs de cirurgia en directe de DSAEK. Hospital Universitari Mútua de Terrassa.

7. Romero MJ, Mousavi K, Casado J. Metástasis coroidea como primera manifestación de adenocarcinoma pulmonar. 85 Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Oftalmologia. Sep 2009.

8. Romero MJ, Mousavi K, Casado J. Moreno S. Desgarro del epitelio pigmentario de la retina bilateral en el tratamiento de DMAE exudativa con Ranibizumab. 85 Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Oftalmologia. Sep 2009.

9. Salvador A, Sassot I, Romero MJ. DSAEK con Cucharilla. SECOIR. March 2008.

10. Romero MJ, Salvador A. Estudi sobre l’impacte de la cefuroxima intracameral com a mesura profilàctica postquirúrgica en la cirurgia de cataractes. 39 Congrés de la Societat Catalana d’Oftalmologia. Nov 2008.

11. Romero MJ, Matamala A. Avaluació de l’infecció protèsica a l’Hospital Mútua de Terrassa. SCCOT, XXI Congrés de la Societat Catalana de Cirurgia Ortopèdica i Traumatologia. Maig 2007.

12. Romero MJ, Asunción J, Ferrer H. Artrodesis total de l’articulació de Lisfranc. SCCOT, XX Congrés de la Societat Catalana de Cirurgia Ortopèdica i Traumatologia. March 2006.

PUBLICATIONS

1.- Vilaseca M, Romero MJ, Arjona M, Luque S, Ondategui J, Salvador A, Güell J, Artal P, Pujol J. Grading Nuclear, cortical and posterior subcapsular cataract using an objective scatter index measured with a double-pass system. British Journal of Ophthalmology. 2012;96:1204-1210 , Septembre 2012.

2.- Romero MJ, Saint-Gerons Giant Arteriovenous malformation and Horner Syndrome: A case report. Neurophthalmology, Maig 2011.

3.- Pujol J, Vilaseca M, Salvador A, Romero MJ, Perez G, Issolio L, Artal P. Cataract evaluation with an objective Scattering Index based on double-pass image analysis. ARVO, USA. Maig 2009.

4.- Benito A, Vilaseca M, Miraber S, Pérez GM, Romero MJ, Pujol J, Marín JM, Güell JL, Artal P. Evaluating Tear Film Quality in Normal And Midly Symptomatic Dry Eyes With A Double-pass Method. ARVO, USA. Maig 2009.

5.- Mousavi K, Romero MJ, Amselem L. Tratamientos físicos ( Terapia fotodinámica, fotocoagulación laser, termoterapia transpupilar) en el tratamiento de la DMAE.  Annals d’Oftalmologia. Nov 2009.