Dr. Jorge Alió Sanz

Career

• Resident Medical Intern (MIR), Department of Ophthalmology, La Concepción Clinic, Jiménez Díaz Foundation. Autonomous
• University of Madrid (1977-1980)
• Attending Physician, “Miguel Servet” Hospital in Zaragoza (1980-1982).
• Head of Section, General University Hospital of Salamanca (1982-1986).
• Founder of the Ophthalmology Institute of Alicante (1995).
• Founder of the Jorgé Alió Foundation (1995).
• Founder of the VISSUM Corporation (1-February-2004).
• Specialist ophthalmologist at Vissum Alicante, Miranza Group, present.

Membership

• Member of the Miranza CLF (Clinical Leaders Forum)
• Former chairman of the International Society of Refractive Surgery (ISRS).
• Founder and Chairman of the International Ocular Inflammation Society (1990-1998), current General Secretary since 1999.
• Vice Chairman of the International Society of Refractive Surgery of the American Academy of Ophthalmology (ISRS/AAO), 2005.
• Chairman of the International Society of Refractive Surgery (ISRS) of the American Academy of Ophthalmology (January 2006-2008).
• Full Member of 26 Scientific Societies, in several of which he forms part of their management structure:
• European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons (ESCRS); International Society Refractive Surgery, American Academy of
• Ophthalmology (ISRS/AAO); International of Ocular Inflammation Society (IOIS); European Association for Vision and Eye Research (EVER); Mediterranean Society of Ophthalmology (MSO), of the Academia Ophthalmologica Internationalis, selected during the WOC Congress, Hong Kong, 28 June to 2 July, (2008), Fellow LXIII, of the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons (ESCRS) (since 2008); of the European Academy of Ophthalmology since 2009, Fellow XLIX, of the European Executive Committee of the ACOS (American-European Congress of Ophthalmic Surgery) 2013 and of the Aniridia European Scientific Committee. (2014).
• Member of the Specialty Information Team – Refractive Management. American Academy of Ophthalmology (2005).
• Founder Member of EVICR.net – European Vision Clinical Research (2006),
• Honorific Member of SHIOL (Hungarian Society of Intraocular Lens Implantation and Refractive Surgery) since March 2013.
• Academic member of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Valencia (RAMCV). (2015)
• He has been presented with 103 awards (of which 59 are international).

Teaching Activity

• Adjunct Professor of practical classes, Autonomous University of Madrid (1976-1980).
• University of Salamanca: Adjunct professor of practical classes (1982-1983) and Tenured Adjunct Professor (1983-1986).
• Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Alicante (1986-1997).
• Creator and Director of the Centre for the Prevention of Blindness in Alicante (1987-1997).
• Head of the Pathology and Surgery Department at the University of Alicante (1990-1992).
• Professor of Ophthalmology at Miguel Hernández University (1997 to present).
• Head of the first PhD Programme in Vision Sciences established in our country (1988-2004), followed by the Inter-university
• Programme of Vision Sciences shared with another 4 Spanish universities and 1 foreign university.
• Head of the 1st Ongoing Medical Training Programme in Ophthalmology (1996-2005), in collaboration with the Official Association of
• Physicians of Alicante and Scientific Societies in the speciality. Since 2005, the programme has been given in classes and remotely via the ongoing training platform OFTALMOVIRTUAL.

Scientific and Research Activity

• Chairman of the 74th Congress of the Spanish Ophthalmology Society held in Alicante, October 1998, of the VII Mediterranean
• Ophthalmological Society Congress and Alicante Refractive. (May 2002), of the Mediterranean Society of Ophthalmology, May 2002-October 2004.
• Member of the Advisory Committee of the “Bidons Egara” Retinitis Pigmentosa Research Chair, Institute of Bioengineering, Miguel
• Hernández University, Alicante, 18 November 2005.
• Abstracts at National Congresses: 655.
• Abstracts at International Congresses: 1763.
• National and International publications in scientific journals (Peer Review): 803(- Indexed: 538- Non-indexed: 265).
• Scientific contributions to tabloids and informative articles: 389.
• Books (Author, Editor and Coeditor): 91.
• Chapters of books: 363.
• Original design patents: 39