Dr. Ramón Medel
Oculoplastic Surgery Department
Lecturer
Instituto de MicrocirugÃa Ocular de Barcelona
Spain
Biography
He is a partner of the IMO and lecturer in the Master’s Ophthalmic and Orbital Plastic Surgery Degree of the Institute of Ocular Microsurgery and the Faculty of Medicine of the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He is specialised in medical and surgical treatment of eyelid and orbit pathologies and malpositions: surgery of orbital tumours, orbital reconstruction in thyroid orbitopathy, aesthetics of the eye (eyelids, eyebrows and periocular region) as well as in reconstruction of lacrimal tract disorders. He was granted a Fellowship in Oculoplastic Surgery at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London, the United Kingdom (1995-1996) and was an observer in the Orbital and Ophthalmic Plastic Surgery Division of the Jules Stein Clinic at UCLA, Los Angeles (USA) in 2002. He is an ophthalmologist in the Orbit and Oculoplastic Surgical Department at the Ciutat Sanitaria Vall d’Hebron (UAB). He is also Director of the Ophthalmic and Orbital Pathology Plastic Surgery doctorate course at the same centre.
Research Interest
Medical and surgical treatment of eyelid and orbit pathologies.
Publications
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Vásquez LM, Alonso T, Medel R (2012) Direct frontalis flap with and without levator pulley for correction of severe ptosis with poor levator function in the same patient. Orbit 31:102-106.
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Tondo M, Gámez J, Gutiérrez-Rivas E, Medel R, Martorell L (2012) Genotype and phenotype study of 34 Spanish patients diagnosed with oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy. J Neurol 259: 1546-1552.
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Medel R, Vásquez LM (2014) Lagophthalmos after facial palsy: current therapeutic options. Ophthalmic Res 52: 165-169.
