Emeritus Academician
Health Sciences: Doctor in Medicine
Dr. JOSEP MARIA SIMÓN TOR
UNIVERSITY DEGREES
- First PhD in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Barcelona (1956).
- PhD in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Recife (Brazil).
- Specialist in Ophthalmology.
- Graduate of the Instituto Oftálmico Nacional.
- Diploma in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery in Ophthalmology from the University of São Paulo (Brazil).
- Historian of Medicine.
TEACHING AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
- Emeritus Numerary Academician of the Royal European Academy of Doctors (RAED).
- Corresponding Academician of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Catalonia.
- Numerary Member of the Institut Mèdico-Farmacèutic de Catalunya.
- Member of the Academy of Medical Sciences of Catalonia and the Balearic Islands.
- Titular Member of the Société Française d’Histoire de l’Ophtalmologie and the Société Française d’Ophtalmologie.
- Honorary President of the Asociación Argentina de Ciencias Psicofisiológicas.
- Advisor to the Instituto Brasileño de Oftalmología y Prevención de la Ceguera (IBOPC), affiliate of the American Foundation for the Blind (its only foreign member).
- Member of the Conseil d’Administration of the Société Francophone d’Histoire de l’Ophtalmologie.
- Consulting Member of the Institut Mèdico-Farmacèutic de Catalunya.
- President of the Hispano-Brazilian Society BRADOPTA.
- Director of the Simón Ophthalmology Clinic (Simón Eye Clinic).
AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS
- Recognised by numerous international scientific and academic societies for his contribution to Ophthalmology and the History of Medicine.