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Luís Abegão Pinto

Luís Abegão Pinto

Head of the Glaucoma Clinic of the Department of Ophthalmology, Hospital Santa Maria, Portugal

Luís Abegão Pinto is the Head of the Glaucoma Clinic of the Department of Ophthalmology of Portugal’s largest Hospital (Hospital Santa Maria). He serves as Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at the Faculty of Medicine of Lisbon University, Portugal. His main areas of interest are the non-IOP related risk factors in glaucoma, particularly the ones related to ocular blood flow (the area of his PhD) and Glaucoma Surgery, specifically wound healing modulation.

He has served in the Executive Board of the European Glaucoma Society (EGS) since 2018 and it is currently the EGS General Secretary. Moreover, he is co-chair of the EGS TaskForce on Glaucoma Surgery, co-editing the new “Guides on Innovations in Glaucoma Surgery”

He has authored or co-authored 95 indexed, peer-reviewed papers in Glaucoma. He is actively engaged in a number of scientific ophthalmological societies, including the EGS and EVER, having chaired or co-chaired a number of courses in international Ophthalmology societies’ meetings.