Dr. Luz María Vásquez

Ophthalmologist
Opthamology
Instituto de Microcirugía Ocular de Barcelona
Spain

Doctor Ophthalmology
Biography

Ophthalmologist specialising in oculoplastics at the Ocular Microsurgery Institute since 2010, after taking the Master’s Course in Ophthalmic and Orbital Plastic Surgeryrun by the IMO and the Faculty of Medicine at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Her specialty is the medical and surgical treatment of palpebral and orbital pathologies and malpositions: surgery for orbital tumours, orbital reconstruction in thyroidal orbitopathy, facial aesthetics (eyelids, eyebrows and periocular region). She is also an expert in reconstruction due to tear duct problems. She took a Fellowship in Ocular Oncology at the University of Toronto, at Princess Margaret Hospital, the Hospital for Sick Children and St Michael’s Hospital (Canada, 2006 – 2008)

Research Intrest

oculoplastics

List of Publications
Vásquez LM, Giuliari GP, Halliday W, Pavlin CJ, Gallie BL, et al. (2011) Ultrasound biomicroscopy in the management of retinoblastoma. Eye (Lond) 25: 141-147.
Medel R, WolleyDod C, Vasquez LM (2014) Early frontalis flap surgery as first option to correct congenital ptosis with porlevatorfunction Orbit 33: 164-168.