Cataract and refractive surgery · Medical Director of the Advanced Eye Surgery Institute · Consultant Ophthalmologist at Badalona Municipal Hospital
This is where most of his surgical work at ICOA is focused today.
Phacoemulsification under topical anaesthesia: a day-case procedure lasting around eight minutes, with no sutures and rapid visual recovery. The intraocular lens is chosen for each patient and can be multifocal, so the same operation also corrects ageing eyesight.
More about cataractsLASIK laser correction of myopia, hyperopia and astigmatism, always preceded by a full corneal assessment: topography, pachymetry and aberrometry. For presbyopia, blended vision laser or a multifocal intraocular lens, depending on the case.
More about refractive errorsDr Juan Cano Parra graduated in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Barcelona and trained as an ophthalmologist at La Fe University Hospital in Valencia, one of Spain's leading eye units, where he rotated through all nine subspecialties and operated in each of them.
A doctorate cum laude with a distinction prize, he has since combined clinic and theatre with research and university teaching. He has directed ICOA since 2006 and has been a consultant ophthalmologist at Badalona Municipal Hospital since 1995.
His work today is centred on the operating theatre: cataract and refractive surgery are the core of his practice at ICOA. He was among the first to introduce phacoemulsification at Badalona Municipal Hospital and has been operating on the lens and cornea ever since.
Over the course of his career he also pursued an intensive research line in uveitis and ocular inflammation, now concluded, which accounts for much of his output of more than a hundred published papers.
Faculty of Medicine, Bellvitge Teaching Unit, University of Barcelona. Ranked 298th in the national MIR specialty entrance examination.
La Fe University Hospital, Valencia, rotating through all nine sections of the department: cornea and refractive surgery, glaucoma, uveitis, intraocular lenses, retina, oculoplastics, neuro-ophthalmology, strabismus and paediatric ophthalmology.
Clinical observership in the Cornea and Uveitis service at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute (University of Miami), under Professor William W. Culbertson.
Thesis on new drugs in proliferative vitreoretinopathy, supervised by Dr José L. Menezo and Dr Manuel Díaz-Llopis. Awarded the University of Valencia's distinction prize for the best doctoral thesis in 1996.
Consultant ophthalmologist since March 1995. He introduced phacoemulsification cataract surgery to the hospital and contributed to the running of the department and its teaching committee.
Medical directorship of the Advanced Eye Surgery Institute in Barcelona. That same year he received the Arruga Prize from the Spanish Society of Ophthalmology.
Voted second-best ophthalmologist in Spain by patients and fellow ophthalmologists.
His practice centres on lens and corneal surgery at ICOA, with surgical experience accumulated at Hospital de Barcelona (SCIAS), Hospital Delfos, Hospital de Mataró, Policlínica de Granollers, Clínica Onyar in Girona and Badalona Municipal Hospital.
In 2006 he received the Arruga Prize, awarded by the Spanish Society of Ophthalmology to the Spanish ophthalmologist under 40 with the strongest curriculum vitae. Fifteen years later, patients and fellow ophthalmologists voted him second-best ophthalmologist in Spain in the 2021 Doctoralia Awards.
Spanish Society of Ophthalmology · DoctoraliaAlongside cataract and refractive surgery, he sees and operates on patients in these areas.
Blended vision laser and multifocal intraocular lenses, to stop depending on reading glasses.
Corneal transplantation, pterygium and ocular surface disease, with topography and pachymetry.
Early diagnosis, medical treatment, Argon laser and surgery when drops are not enough.
Vitrectomy and scleral surgery, macular degeneration and intravitreal treatments.
Full eye examinations with refraction, tonometry and fundus assessment, including paediatric eye checks.
Fields in which he researched and published over the years, and which account for much of his scientific record.
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