- TFOS global ambassadors and international chapter affiliate
Chile
Arturo Grau Diez
Arturo E. Grau is an Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC). His beginnings in medicine were influenced by well-known doctors in his family: his father Dr. Arturo P. Grau, a Child Psychiatry professor, and his uncle, Dr. Luis Monasterio, a Pediatric Plastic Surgeon. Dr. Grau's choice of Ophthalmology was motivated by Drs. George Shafranov and Mark Milner, friends and mentors he met during his observerships at Yale University in his final years of medical school. After studying ophthalmology at Universidad Católica, Dr. Grau decided to undertake subspecialty training in cornea and ocular surface disease in Bilbao, Spain with Professor Juan Durán de la Colina, where he focused primarily on hemoderivatives and their use in dry eye, treatment of corneal erosions and corneal dystrophies, among many other medical conditions. After his subspecialty training in Spain, Dr. Grau was accepted for the prestigious anterior segment fellowship at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London, where he had the opportunity to learn from great professors such as Dr. Valerie Saw, Dr. Steven Tuft, and Prof. John Dart. Throughout his career, he has had the privilege of surrounding himself with great national and international colleagues and learning from them the challenges of ocular surface disease, all of which motivated him to accept the great honor of being TFOS Ambassador. Currently, Dr. Grau works full time at Universidad Católica and Sótero del Río Hospital in Santiago, Chile as a cornea and ocular surface disease specialist. He regularly presents at national and international meetings and is also a member of the Chilean Society of Ophthalmology. Dr. Grau's social vocation has led him to be a founding member of OcuLab UC, a social innovation laboratory for visual disability, where along with other professors of UC, they develop projects focused on entrepreneurship, culture and education in the social aspects of visual disability. Dr. Arturo Grau lives in Santiago with his wife Daniela and their children Arturo and Carmen. He enjoys music, art, food, and travel.