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Born in Peru, Dr. Contreras received his medical degree from the University of San Marcos in 1952. He completed his Residency at the Santo Toribio Hospital in Lima and was an Ophthalmic Pathology Fellow at the University of California in San Francisco (1964-1965). Dr. Contreras is Professor of Ophthalmology at the Cayetano Heredia University of Peru, in addition to his private practice. He specializes in cataract, IOL and Ophthalmic Pathology.
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Dr. Contreras was the Founder and Director of the Peruvian National Eye Institute and the first Ophthalmic Pathology Laboratory and the Eye Bank in Peru. He was also President of the Pan American Association of Ophthalmology and President of the Peruvian Society of Ophthalmology. He has served as Chairman of the Latin American Region of the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness. Presently, he serves as Chairman of the Committee for the Prevention of Blindness of the Pan American Association of Ophthalmology.
He is Member of the National Academy of Medicine in Peru and the Academia Ophthalmologica Internationalis.
Among other awards, he has received the Life Long Service to the Prevention of Blindness Award from the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) in Kenya; the Honor Award for Dedication to Prevention of Blindness from the International Agency
for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) in China; the 1999
International Award on Prevention of Blindness given by the American Academy of Ophthalmology in Orlando, Florida (USA) and the Leslie Dana Gold Medal Award from the St. Louis Society for the Blind and Visually Impaired in St. Louis, Missouri (USA).
Dr. Contreras has given more than 170 national lectures and 240 international lectures. He has published more than 100 articles in national and international publications.
Dr. Contreras’ main activities during his professional life has been oriented toward the promotion and encourage, to National Societies of Ophthalmology in Latin America and ophthalmologists in general, for the prevention of blindness and vision restoration with the appropriate methods and technology available to all socio-economic-cultural levels of our region.
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