{"id":33436,"date":"2026-03-30T11:02:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T11:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ullsdelmon.org\/borja-corcostegui-guraya\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T11:36:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T11:36:15","slug":"borja-corcostegui-guraya","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ullsdelmon.org\/en\/organization\/board-of-trustees\/borja-corcostegui-guraya\/","title":{"rendered":"Borja Corc\u00f3stegui Guraya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coming from a long line of ophthalmologists, he studied <strong>medicine<\/strong> in Zaragoza until 1974. In 1977, he went on to study <strong>ophthalmology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB)<\/strong>. During his post-doctoral studies in London, Philadelphia and New York, he specialised in vitreoretinal diseases.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Corc\u00f3stegui started his career at the Vall d&#8217;Hebron University Hospital as a member of the Retina Unit. He later became the <strong>director of the Vitreoretina Unit<\/strong> and, in 1991, the director of the Ophthalmology Department.<\/p>\n<p>Three years later, Dr Corc\u00f3stegui co-founded the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imo.es\/en\">Barcelona Institute of Ocular Microsurgery<\/a>, of which he has been the medical director until 2022. In 1998, he became president of the Spanish Vitreo-Retinal Society (SERV, in Spanish). Since 2005, Dr. Corc\u00f3stegui has been the president of the European Society of Retina Specialists (EURETINA).<\/p>\n<p>In 2009, Dr Corc\u00f3stegui became a member of the <strong>Royal Academy of Medicine of Catalonia<\/strong> (RAMC, in Catalan) and, in 2017, he became a <strong>permanent member of this institution<\/strong>. In addition, Dr Corc\u00f3stegui is affiliated to several national and international societies, including the aforementioned. He holds the <strong>presidency of the Scientific Council of the European School of Advanced Studies in Ophtalmology <\/strong>(ESASO). Moreover, Dr Corc\u00f3stegui holds over a dozen awards and international recognitions for his contributions to the study and treatment of retinal detachments and his work on the field.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Corc\u00f3stegui also has extensive teaching experience, as he is the appointed professor of the IMO professorship at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) where he teaches in the Master&#8217;s Degree in Vitreoretinal Studies. Moreover, Dr Corc\u00f3stegui has<strong> supervised nine doctoral theses presented at the UAB and 26 training courses in vitreoretinal diseases<\/strong>. Furthermore, he has participated as a presenting speaker at 118 conferences in universities all over Spain, Europe and America, among other countries.<\/p>\n<p>In the field of research, Dr Corc\u00f3stegui has published three books and <strong>28 articles in national and international journals<\/strong>. His work on the development of vitreoretinal surgery techniques and equipment is well-known in the field.<\/p>\n<p>Date of appointment: 9 July 2001<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coming from a long line of ophthalmologists, he studied medicine in Zaragoza until 1974. In 1977, he went on to study ophthalmology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). During his post-doctoral studies in London, Philadelphia and New York, he specialised in vitreoretinal diseases. 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