BENJAMIN GERARDO G. CABRERA, MD

Cataract, External Diseases, Low Vision
and Vision Rehabilitation

Co-founded the Associated Eye Specialists and practices at the American Eye Center in Manila.  His training resume includes ophthalmology training at the University of the Philippines – Philippine General Hospital, clinical fellowship in Anterior Segment and External Disease at the University of the Philippines Institute of Ophthalmology and a clinical fellowship in Low Vision and Vision Rehabilitation at the National Rehabilitation Center for the Disabled in Saitama, Japan.

Dr. Cabrera has been a board member of the Capitol Medical Center, an examiner for the Philippine Board of Ophthalmology and a clinical associate professor of the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences of the University of the Philippines – Philippine General Hospital.

He is the founding president of the Philippine Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, a member of the Corneal Club of the Philippines and of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery.  He heads the Evidence-Based Interest Group in Ophthalmology, a committee of the Philippine Academy of Ophthalmology.

Currently, he is a faculty member of the Department of Ophthalmology of the Ateneo School of Medicine and Public Health and faculty of the Center for Micro-surgical Skills Advancement at The Medical City.  He holds clinics at the American Eye Center, Capitol Medical Center and is a visiting consultant at The Medical City.