- TFOS global ambassadors and international chapter affiliate
Ecuador
José Miguel Varas
José Miguel Varas graduated from Escuela Superior de Oftalmología at the Instituto Barraquer de América, in Bogotá, Colombia. He is the Director of Centro Oftálmico Varas Samaniego in Guayaquil, Ecuador, and specializes in Anterior Segment Surgery and External Disease. Most of Dr. Varas’ recent work has been devoted to astigmatism and toric intraocular lenses. Dr. Varas is the designer of the popular Axis Assistant App for toric IOL marking and alignment as well as the developer of the "IntegraciónTóricos" software for Toric IOL calculations. He is an active member in regional and international societies such as AAO, ISRS, ASCRS, ESCRS, ALACCSA-R, PAAO, SECSA, among others.