- TFOS Ambassadors
Chile
Arturo Grau
Arturo E. Grau is an Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC) and has a Masters degree in Bioethics and is a member of the Bioethics Center at 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, Dr. Bruce Allan 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 in Santiago, Chile as a Cornea and Ocular Surface Disease Specialist. He regularly presents at national and international meetings, and works also in research and is in charge of the only Simulation training program in Ophthalmology in Chile at Universidad Catolica de Chile.
