Prestige Factors:

• A family saga across five generations, marked by great achievements:
  • Discovery of facoerisi, crystal extraction technique that revolutionised the world of ophthalmology.
  • Creation of a new type of operating room specially conceived for teamwork and teaching.
  • Creation of teaching professorships and investigative studies.
• Specialised ophthalmology units for ocular pathologies.
• 300 cornea transplants per year. Leading centre in Spain.
• Illustrious patients: the Spanish Royal Family, foreign dignitaries, politicians, Nobel Laureates in Literature, poets and other members of the art world.

Quality Guarantee:

• Every accreditation given by the Health Department of the Generalitat de Catalunya
• Best ophthalmologic hospital in Spain, according to the National Consumer Organisation
• Authorized centers with ophthalmology residency program: 16 residents and 3 fellows

• Medical Care Data
• Admissions  5,259
• Number of surgical interventions  14,000
• Number of external consultations  100,000
• Number of emergencies treated  10,000
• Human resources
• Staff, medical and higher degrees  56
• Technological Resources
• • Provides the most advanced technological innovations in diagnostics and surgery.
• Facilities
• • Health centres: 1
  • Beds: 70 + 19 rooms
  • Operating rooms: 5
  • Lasers: 5
• Departamentos
• • Pathologies of the exterior ocular segment:
    • Cornea and ocular surface
    • Glaucoma
    • Cataracts
    • Corneal transplants
    • Implanto-refractive surgery
  • Pathologies of the interior ocular segment:
    • Vitri
    • Retina
    • Optic nerve
    • Macular degeneration associated with age (DMAA)
    • Macular retinopathy
    • Macular hole
  • Binocular vision and strabismus
  • Paediatric ophthalmology
  • Oculoplasty (eyelids)
  • Tear duct
  • Orbit
  • Refractive laser surgery for myopia, hypermetropia and astigmatism
  • Ocular oncology

Medical Staff:

Abengoechea, Santiago
Alvarez de Toledo, Juan P.
Barraquer, Prof. Joaquín ( Cirugia- Director )
Barraquer, Elena ( Dirección Médica )
Barraquer, Rafael L. ( Dirección Médica )
Canut, M. Isabel
Charoenrook, Víctor
Compte, Rafael
De la Paz, Maria
Elizalde, Javier
García Barberán, Ignacio
Kargachin-Barraquer, Marinka
Lamarca, José
Martínez Grau, Ainhoa
Martínez Grau, Gorka
Martinez Osório, Hernán
Muiños, Santos
Nadal, Jeroni
Nieto, Justo
Pesic, Milan
Picó, Andrés
Riquelme, José L.
Ruiz Tolosa, Francisco
Samaan, Mushen
Temprano, José
Uxó, Mercè
Viver, Sonia