04 April 2025
This past Saturday, March 15 and 29, we carried out a social outreach event for intraocular pressure screening aimed at detecting glaucoma, led by Drs. Guillermina Méndez, Katia Cabrero, and Katherine Rivera.
04 April 2025
During the month of March, Dr. Stephanie Vázquez, together with students from Universidad Iberoamericana (UNIBE), carried out a social outreach event at one of the Fe y Alegría schools, providing care to the children who are part of that educational community.
28 January 2025
Dr. Arnaldo Espaillat Cabral, founder of the Espaillat Cabral Institute (1970), the first ophthalmological center in the Dominican Republic, passed away on January 26.
Born in Mao in 1931, Dr. Espaillat Cabral faced from an early age the challenges imposed by the dictatorship of Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, a regime that took the life of his father for political reasons. In the midst of this adverse context, he trained as a doctor at the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD), where he stood out for his academic brilliance and determination.
The funeral of the outstanding doctor will be held at the Blandino Funeral Home on Monday, January 27, starting at 1:00 p.m. Then, on Tuesday the 28th, at 11:00 a.m., he will have a funeral mass before leaving for the Cristo Redentor cemetery, where he will receive a Christian burial.
His specialization in ophthalmology at the Barraquer Institute in Barcelona marked the beginning of a pioneering career that would lead him to found his own center.
There he developed fundamental medical advances, including research on Toxoplasma Gondii and eye lesions associated with leprosy, placing the country on the map of international medical research.
The doctor also dedicated more than two decades to teaching at the UASD, impacting generations of professionals and leaving a legacy in medical education.
He was also one of the founding members and former president of the Academy of Sciences of the Dominican Republic, an institution from which he promoted scientific projects of great national impact. Likewise, his interest in language and culture led him to be a member of the Dominican Academy of Language and the author of three books that combine his scientific knowledge with his love of letters.
In his life, Dr. Espaillat Cabral not only stood out as a doctor and scientist, but also as a man of principles, whose critical stance against the Trujillo dictatorship earned him persecution and jail. His courage and commitment to social justice made him a moral and ethical reference for his generation.
Read the press release in Listín Diario https://listindiario.com/la-republica/20250127/fallece-doctor-arnaldo-espaillat-cabral-fundador-primer-centro-oftalmologico-rd_843051.html
The Espaillat Cabral Institute, which in 2019 became the first Dominican health center to receive the HFAP international quality accreditation, has received a new certification from the Accreditation Commission for Health Care (ACHC) of the United States.
Innovative. The Espaillat Cabral Institute was the first ophthalmology clinic in the country and is the first national medical center dedicated to a single specialty in the area of medicine.
It was the first health center in the Dominican Republic where eye surgery was performed for the first time with the use of a microscope, laser surgery for eye problems and, in addition, it had specialized operating rooms exclusively for ophthalmological interventions.
Los equipos más modernos de la época, como fotocoaguladores, tomógrafos, aplicadores de radiación, crioaplicadores para cirugía de catarata eran novedades en un centro moderno e innovador. Además el doctor Espaillat formó un grupo de oftalmólogos que han hecho importantes aportes a la medicina dominicana
The Espaillat Cabral Institute is the first Dominican health center, and first outside the United States, to receive the HFAP international health quality accreditation.
Doctor of Medicine Cum Laude, Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña (UNPHU). February 1988.
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