LUIS FERNÁNDEZ-VEGA SANZ
Presidency: 2018 - 2022
A graduate in Medicine from the Autonomous University, Madrid, he heads the Fernández-Vega Ophthalmological Institute and is a Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Oviedo’s Faculty of Medicine. President of the Princess of Asturias Foundation from April 2018 to April 2022.
President of the Fernández-Vega Ophthalmological Institute in Oviedo, he obtained tenure as assistant lecturer in Ophthalmology at the Complutense University Faculty of Medicine, Madrid, in 1980 and the Chair in Ophthalmology at Oviedo University Faculty of Medicine in 1982. That same year, he was appointed Head of the Ophthalmology Service at the Central University Hospital of Asturias (HUCA). He was formerly president of the Spanish Society for Refractive Lens Exchange Surgery (SECOIR), of which he is currently honorary president, as well as president of Spain’s National Committee for Ophthalmology between 2013 and 2020.
He is a full member of both the Royal Academy of Medicine of the Principality of Asturias and the Spanish Medical-Surgical Academy, as well as a corresponding member of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Zaragoza and member of the Free College of Emeritus Academics of Spain. He is also an honorary member, distinguished with a gold emblem, of the College of Physicians of Asturias. Among other distinctions, he also holds the Gold Medal of Asturias and the Grand Cross of Spain’s Order of Civil Merit. He has authored over 200 papers, in addition to a substantial number of chapters and books. He has likewise participated in numerous national and international congresses and has lectured at almost every Spanish university. He also holds numerous awards in his speciality and is a member of the world’s leading ophthalmological societies.