Arturo Santos García

Arturo Santos received his medical education at the Ignacio A. Santos School of Medicine in Monterrey, Mexico. He graduated in 1989.^[2] He completed his ophthalmology residency at the Asociación Para Evitar la Ceguera (APEC) in Mexico City. He then went on to pursue a medical fellowship in retina surgery, at the Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute, at Johns Hopkins Hospital.^[3] He received his doctoral degree in molecular biology Universidad de Guadalajara.^[2] He is a second degree member of the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores,^[1] with over 30 articles and 1,000 citations.^[4] He was awarded by the president of Mexico Enrique Peña Nieto, along with his colleagues of the Centro de Retina Quirúrgico, the National Technology and Innovation Prize.^[5]