- TFOS global ambassadors and international chapter affiliate
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Maria A Henriquez
María A. Henriquez, M.D. has been working in the area of ocular surface for over 10 years, focusing on chemical burns and amniotic membrane. She is currently the Chief of the Research Department at Oftalmosalud, Instituto de Ojos in Lima, Peru where more than 30 medical doctors are completing their Residency or Fellowship programs. In her country of Peru, she is a chemical burn and amniotic membrane expert and gives several talks each year. Dr. Henriquez dedicates a lot of her time to keratoconus diagnosis and treatment. She was trained in refractive surgery at Oftalmosalud in Lima, Peru, completed ocular surface studies and ocular ultrasound at Escuela Paulista de Medicina, and completed the 1-year global research training program at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Henriquez has published over 20 papers in indexed medical journals and has been a reviewer of several international journals like JCRS, JRS, Cornea, IJO, IJKED, and is a Co-Author of several books. She is a globally recognized physician with a Masters and Doctoral degree, and has received several awards like the National Medical Prize for Research, the National Ophthalmology Prize for Research (twice), the Tyson Award at ARVO, and others.