Emeritus Academician
Health Sciences: PhD in Medicine
Date of admission: July 3, 1980
Medal: No. 47
Outstanding career: A physician and academic with extensive experience, specializing in Ophthalmology and Aeronautical Medicine, he stood out for his contribution to the study and treatment of vitreoretinal pathology and for his solid scientific and teaching work.
Dr. CARLOS DANTE HEREDIA GARCÍA
UNIVERSITY DEGREES
- PhD in Medicine from the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
- Degree in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Barcelona, Spain.
- PhD in Medicine and Surgery from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain.
- Diploma as Specialist in Ophthalmology from the Barraquer Institute of Barcelona.
- Medical Specialist in Ophthalmology and Specialist in Aeronautical Medicine from the University of Barcelona.
TEACHING AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
- Head of the Retina and Vitreous Department at the Bonafonte Ophthalmology Center, Barcelona.
- Numerary Member of the Academy of Sciences of the Dominican Republic, distinguished with the “Laudatio Academica”.
- Numerary Academician of the Spanish Medical-Surgical Academy, Madrid.
- Full Member of the Medical-Pharmaceutical Institute of Catalonia.
- Recipient of Honorary Doctorates from the International University Eugenio María de Hostos (Santo Domingo), the Catholic University of Santo Domingo, and the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic), as well as from the Central University of the East (San Pedro de Macorís, Dominican Republic) and the Università Internazionale per la Ricerca Scientifica (Rome, Italy).
PUBLICATIONS
- Author of nearly 200 papers published in several languages.
- Author of the books: Estado y tratamiento actual de la retinopatía diabética, Tratamiento clínicoquirúrgico de afecciones vítreo-retinianas and Interpretación Psico-Filosófica de la Mirada.
- Has produced 22 films and videos on vitreoretinal surgery.
AWARDS AND HONOURS
- Declared Master of Dominican Medicine.
- Recognised as Professor, Honorary Academician, Distinguished, Corresponding, Extraordinary, Adopted Son, Meritorious and Exemplary Citizen by more than 20 international academic and medical institutions.
- Grand Cross Silver Plaque of the Equestrian Order of St. Gregory the Great (Vatican State).
- Grand Cross Silver Plaque of the Order of St. Sylvester Pope (Vatican State).
- Grand Cross Silver Plaque of the Order of Duarte, Sánchez and Mella (Dominican Republic).
- Grand Cross Silver Plaque of the Heraldic Order of Christopher Columbus (Dominican Republic).