Jose L. Güell

Dr. Jose L. Güell is the director of the cornea and refractive surgery unit at the Instituto de Microcirugia Ocular de Barcelona (IMO). He studied Medicine and Surgery at the Universitat de Barcelona (UB). Dr. Guell completed his residency at UAB Vall d’Hebrón and a clinical fellowship in cornea and refractive surgery at Emory University. Prior to IMO, Dr. Guell was the director of cornea and refractive surgery in the ophthalmology department of the Vall d’Hebrón Hospital.

Dr. Güell’s areas of interest are full and partial thickness corneal transplantation (Deep Anterior lamellar keratoplasty and endothelial keratoplasty), complex cataract and anterior segment reconstructive procedures, including permanent keratoprothesis surgery (artificial cornea). He has lectured nationally and internationally on these topics. Dr. Güell has given 700 talks at global meetings and conferences, and he has published 250 articles in peer-reviewed journals, as well as several book chapters. Dr. Güell is the former president of the IMO Foundation, and he is a member of the Catalan Academy of Medicine and director of the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons (ESCRS). He is scientific coordinator and professor of the cornea and refractive surgery module, ESASO, European School for Advanced Studies in Ophthalmology in Lugano, Switzerland.