Dr. Francesc Franquesa Garcia

Ophthalmologist specializing in retina, medical-surgical procedures, and cataract surgery.

• Department of Medical and Surgical Retina
  Surgical Retina Fellowship • Germans Trias i Pujol University Hospital
  Oct 2024-Sep 2025
• Subspecialty program offered by the Spanish Society of Retina and Vitreous for training experts in the management of vitreoretinal pathology.
  EXTERNAL ROTATION • SANT JOAN DE DÉU HOSPITAL
  JUN 2022 – AUG 2022
• Three-month observation period in pediatric ophthalmology, specializing in oculoplastics, neuro-ophthalmology, strabismus, and oncology.
  OPHTHALMOLOGY RESIDENT • HOSPITAL CLÍNIC DE BARCELONA
  SEP 2020 – SEP 2024
• Clinical and surgical training program in the different ophthalmological subspecialties.
• Performance of duties as Assistant in Medical-Surgical Retina
  between November and December 2023, attending to the needs of the Department.

Bachelor of Medicine • University of Lleida 2019
Grade: Excellent
Honors in:

• Cell Biology and Physiology, Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Anatomy I, Immunology, Microbiology, Neurobiology, Pharmacology, Cardiology, Nephrology, Psychiatry, Ophthalmology, Oncology, Hematology, Gastroenterology, Dermatology, Rheumatology, Gynecology and Obstetrics, Traumatology, Infectious Diseases, Toxicology, Intensive Care, Pediatrics, and Neurology.
  Final Degree Project with Distinction: Corneal Transplantation at the Arnau de Vilanova University Hospital in Lleida.
• Supervised by Dr. Valentín Huerva Escanilla, with the objective of studying the trends in techniques, indications, and refractive outcomes of corneal transplants performed at the University Hospital of Lleida over the last 14 years.
  MIR EXAM 2020
  Top 1% (Rank 165)
  DOCTORAL THESIS • UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA 2022- ONGOING
  Association of anatomical parameters, evaluated with optical coherence tomography, and clinical outcomes of intravitreal therapy in patients with diabetic macular edema.

CERTIFICATIONS

• International Council of Ophthalmology: The basic science examination in ophthalmology – 2021
• International Council of Ophthalmology: The optics & refraction examination in ophthalmology – 2022
• International Council of Ophthalmology: Clinical Science – 2023
• European Board of Ophthalmology-2024
• Beca Talents 2025 (Hospital Universitari Germnas Trias i Pujol): TIME IS RETINA

PRESENTATIONS AT CONFERENCES

• Efficacy and safety of combined 27-G vitrectomy and Ahmed Valve using same sclerotomy site for the tube placement: a case series, 15th
  European Glaucoma Society Congress, Atenas 2022
• Analysis of a series of patients who underwent Paul glaucoma implant surgery and removal of the tutor before the third postoperative month, 15th European Glaucoma Society Congress, Atenas 2022
• Conference on Visual Acuity, XXV National Introductory Course on Refraction, Gregorio Marañón Hospital,
  Madrid 2022
• Paraproteinemic keratopathy: Clinical case, 53rd Congress of the Catalan Society of Ophthalmology, Barcelona 2022
• One-Year Outcomes of the Paul Glaucoma Implant for the Treatment of Refractory Glaucoma, 10th World Glaucoma Congress, Roma 2023
• Multimodal imaging, genotyping, and functional evaluation of macular dystrophies with initial suspicion of ABCA4 mutation, 99th Congress of the Spanish Society of Ophthalmology, Seville 2023
• Anatomical predictors of clinical outcomes in patients with diabetic macular edema treated with intravitreal dexamethasone implants, Euretina, Barcelona 2024
• Anatomical predictors of clinical outcomes in patients with diabetic macular edema treated with intravitreal dexamethasone implants.
  55th Congress of the Catalan Society of Ophthalmology, Barcelona 2024

PUBLICATIONS

• Franquesa-Garcia, F., Sabater-Cruz, N. (2020) New perspectives in the Management of epibulbar dermoids. Annals d’Ophthalmologia.
• Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography. Chapter 42 – Contribution of Artificial Intelligence in OCTA; Zarranz-Ventura J, Franquesa-Garcia F, Bernal-Morales C. 97th Official Presentation of the Spanish Society of Ophthalmology 2021.
• Biarnés, M., Ventura-Abreu, N., Rodríguez-Una, I., Franquesa-Garcia, F., Batlle-Ferrando, S., Carrión-Donderis, M. T., Castro-Domínguez, R., Millá, E., Muniesa, M. J., & Pazos, M. (2023). Classifying glaucoma exclusively with OCT: comparison of three clustering algorithms derived from machine learning. Eye (London, England), 10.1038/s41433-023-02785-5
• Franquesa-Garcia, F., González-Valdivia, H., Casas-Gimeno, E., RoviraZurriag, C., & Prat-Bartomeu, J. (2023). An Unusual Case of Lacrimal Gland
  Dacryops in a 10-Year-Old Child. Journal of pediatric ophthalmology and strabismus, 60(6),e79–e82.