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Expert has experience in optic nerve problems related to research and training experience and has obtained several research grants and written papers on the subject. Expert is board certified in Ophthalmology. She received her M.D. at C. Heredia University in Lima, Peru. Her Medicine internship was at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston, Internal Medicine residency at the University of Miami, Ophthalmology residency at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. and fellowship in Neuro-Ophthalmology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. She holds a Master's Degree in Public Health from the University of Texas School of Public Health, specializing in Health Promotion and Prevention. She is a current fellow of the American Academy of Ophthalmology (A.A.O.), the North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society, the American Telemedicine Association (A.T.A.), Research to Prevent Blindness and the American Board of Forensic Examiners.

Neuro-Ophthalmology deals with diagnostically challenging cases. She examines patients with rheumatologic, toxic, oncologic, metabolic, endocrine, infectious, and other medical diseases. She has expertise in differentiating these medical conditions from intrinsic neurologic or ophthalmic diseases that affect the eye and brain leading to neuro-ophthalmic problems. The etiology of vision and visual field loss, unusual eye complaints or visual phenomena, ptosis, diplopia, abnormal pupils and eye movements, ocular, periocular and associated head pain are some of the conditions which Expert evaluates in adults.


She is Consultant to Eisai Pharmaceuticals for drug clinical side effects in Oncology.