Inventos
y avances

1995 Founder of a Private Excimer Laser Clinic:  EXILASER S.A., Bogotá, Colombia.

1996 Inventor and patent holder of a Corneal Marker for Refractive Surgery:  GRID CORNEAL MARKER, manufactured by KATENA INC., USA

1997 Developer of a Surgical Technique for phacoemulsification:  PIE TECNIQUE FOR PHACO - CHOP.

1996 Principal Investigator for VISX, Incorporated, Treatment of Irregular Astigmatism.

1998 Developer and Contributor to the software upgrade: CAP Method™

1999 Surgeon of the first three patients ever treated in the world with CAP Method ™ from VISX Inc.

2000 August: approved and appointed as a beta site for investigation for the FDA of the VISX Star S3 System –Activetrak- Laser System and Wave-
Front technology in Aruba Laser Refractive Institute.

2000 September: surgeon of the first patient ever treated in the world with Wave-Front based technology with the VISX S3 –Activetrak- System in Heidelberg, Germany.

2001 March 23rd: surgeon of the first patient ever treated in the world with
Wave-Front technology and VSS program with the VISX S3–Activetrak- System in Alicante, Spain.

2002 Participant of the International Group of Investigators for Custom Wave- Front treatments in refractive surgery for VISX Inc.
Santa Clara, California, USA. 

2004 Inventor and patent holder (United States Patent number US 6,740,078
B2): Method and Apparatus for treating presbyopia.

2004 Participant of the International Group of Investigators for Iris Registration
Custom Vue Studies AMO-Visx Inc.

2005 First surgeon in the world to make an onlay  collagen implantation in a human cornea.  cataract surgery.

2008 Participant of the first International Group for the treatment of Keratoconus with combination of Cross Linking and PRK for the treatment of Keratoconus.

2008 Developer of the Surgical Technique: PTK and LAMELAR CORNEAL
TRANSPLANT WITH INTRALASE for corneal transplants in KERATOCONUS.