Brazil, 1957. Ricardo Casaroli graduated in medicine and surgery from the Santa Casa Faculty of Medical Science in São Paulo in 1981. He later moved to Barcelona, where he specialised in ophthalmology at the Barraquer Institute’s School of Ophthalmic Specialisation in 1990.
He began his career in his home country, where he trained as a resident doctor in public hospitals of the Social Security of São Paulo (1982-1985). Despite this, his career has developed in Catalonia. Initially at the Barraquer Institute, where from 1985 to 1992 he alternated different tasks, such as eye bank doctor, teaching collaborator or research fellow. Since 2005 he has been working as an ophthalmologist at the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, a task he combines with teaching at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Barcelona (UB), where he has been a full professor in the Department of Surgery since 2001.
Casaroli has an important facet as a researcher, currently working in the Anvancell programme of the University of Barcelona, in the Tissue Bank of the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona and in the Institute of Biomedical Research (IIB-Sant Pau). He has participated in several projects funded by public institutions, the European Union, national and international pharmaceutical companies, among others.
Currently, he is a senior consultant at the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, professor of Ophthalmology at the Faculty of Medicine of the UB and delegate of the rector for the Network of Health Institutions of the University of Barcelona.
