Biography

Dr. Luz Elena Concha-del Río is Head of Inflammatory Eye Disease Clinic at Hospital Luis Sánchez Bulnes, Asociación Para Evitar la Ceguera en México. She atended Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro. She did social service in Immunology Department at Instituto Nacional de Cardiología. After her Ophthalmology Residency at Hospital Luis Sánchez Bulnes, Asociación Para Evitar la Ceguera en México, she completed Ocular Inflammatory Eye Disease fellowship as well as one in Research Methodology in Ophthalmology at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Her publications include 5 book chapters, and over 10 articles in peer-reviewed journals. She has practiced Ophthalmology in Mexico City for the past 10 years, during which time she has been actively training Ophthalmology residents at Hospital Luis Sánchez Bulnes, Asociación Para Evitar la Ceguera en México and fellows in Inflammatory Eye Disease at the same hospital. She is the President of the Centro Mexicano de Enfermedades Inflamatorias 2017-2018. She actively works at the Certification Comitte of the Mexican Council of Ophthalmology and has been synodal in several exams. She has worked as a reviewer in journals Revista Mexicana de Oftalmología and European Journal of Opthalmology.


Research Interest

Inflammatory eye diseases, systemic diseases with ocular affection, imaging for diagnosis and follow-up, surgical techniques in uveitis.