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On Friday September 18, starting at 11: 30h., The Temple of the Monastery of Jeronimos host the inauguration ceremony of Doctor Honoris Causa from the Universidad Catolica San Antonio de Murcia Joaquin Barraquer, a renowned ophthalmologist and eye surgeon, surgeon and director of the Barraquer Ophthalmology Centre (Barcelona).

The professor focused his inaugural speech on 'The cataract surgery.

The story I have lived '.

The laudatio will be given by Jerome Lajara also ophthalmologist and vice dean of the Degree in Medicine at the UCAM.

Barraquer, internationally recognized professional, clinical work focuses on four main fields: corneal transplants and cataract surgeries, glaucoma and myopia.

It has also developed an important role in teaching, training many specialists in the field.

This appointment joins and honorary doctorates in the field of health: Juan Jimenez Collado, professor at the Royal Academy of Medicine;

Lars Peterson, professor of orthopedics at the University of Gothenburg (Sweden);

Juan Carlos Izpisua, researcher Gene Expression Laboratory at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla (California, USA);

Antonio Lopez de Silanes, who was promoter of the Mexican Health Foundation (FUNSALUD);

René Verdonk, professor emeritus and former director of the Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology State University of Gent (Belgium);

Stephen P. Abelow, director of the Clinic of Sports Traumatology Lake Tahoe (Nevada, USA), and Dr. Pedro Guillen, extraordinary professor of Sports Traumatology and honorary dean of Medicine degree UCAM.

Source: UCAM