Dr. Jose M Vargas
Chairman of the Surgery Department and also the Head of the Ophthalmology Division at king Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz University Hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He earned his MD degree from the University of Zulia in Maracaibo, Venezuela in 1990. He completed his residency training program at the Hospital Risquez in Caracas in 1993. Dr. Vargas was trained as a Cornea, External Diseases, Cataract and Refractive Surgery fellow at the UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dalla, Texas under the mentorship of James P. McCulley, MD from July 2000 to July 2002. He implanted his first Boston keratoprosthesis in 2008, since this time he has been deeply involved in the use of the Boston K pro. Dr Vargas participated in the development of the Keraklear, a foldable artificial cornea and has one of the largest series in the world. He joined King Khaled Eye Specialist Hospital as an Anterior segment Consultant in 2014. Dr. Vargas stablished the first K pro Clinic in the Middle East at King Khaled Eye Specialist Hospital on March 2019. He was appointed Head of the Anterior segment Department at KKESH in February 2019 until February 2021. Dr. Vargas Joined king Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz University Hospital in March 2021. He has been a guest speaker in several International symposiums and lectured about the Boston Keratoprosthesis around the world.


CONTACT
King Abdullah Bin AbdulAziz University Hospital
Airport Road, King khalid International Airport, Riyadh. 11564. Saudi Arabia.
Phone: +966118200000
Email: [email protected]
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