Dr. Juan Gabriel Santiago M.D.
Ophthalmologist
1309 E Ridge Rd Suite 1 Mcallen TX, 78503About
Dr. Juan Santiago is an ophthalmologist practicing in Mcallen, TX. Dr. Santiago specializes in eye and vision care. As an ophthalmologist, Dr. Santiago can practice medicine as well as surgery. Opthalmologists can perform surgeries because they have their medical degrees along with at least eight years of additional training. Dr. Santiago can diagnose and treat diseases, perform eye operations and prescribe eye glasses and contacts. Ophthalmologists can also specialize even further in a specific area of eye care.
Education and Training
University of Puerto Rico Medical School MD 2004
Board Certification
OphthalmologyAmerican Board of OphthalmologyABO- 2012
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Electroosmotic flows in microchannels with finite inertial and pressure forces.
- Electrokinetic instability micromixing.
- Particle tracking techniques for electrokinetic microchannel flows.
- Design and optimization of on-chip capillary electrophoresis.
- On-chip coupling of isoelectric focusing and free solution electrophoresis for multidimensional separations.
- Thousandfold signal increase using field-amplified sample stacking for on-chip electrophoresis.
- Porous glass electroosmotic pumps: theory.
- Porous glass electroosmotic pumps: design and experiments.
- A method for determining electrophoretic and electroosmotic mobilities using AC and DC electric field particle displacements.
- Femtomole mixer for microsecond kinetic studies of protein folding.
- Electrokinetic transport in nanochannels. 1. Theory.
- Electrokinetic transport in nanochannels. 2. Experiments.
- On-chip millionfold sample stacking using transient isotachophoresis.
- Optimization of a microfluidic mixer for studying protein folding kinetics.
- Electrophoresis in nanochannels: brief review and speculation.
Treatments
- Macular Degeneration
- Diabetic Retinopathy
- Retinal Detachment
- Retinal Tear
- Macular Hole
- Retinal Vein Occlusions
- Vitreoretinal Diseases and Surgery
- Epiretinal Membranes
- Posterior Vitreous Detachment
- Retina and Vitreous Diseases
- Retinal Laser Surgery
Professional Memberships
- Fellow American Academy of Ophthlamology 2004
- Member American Society of Retina Specialists 2011
Fellowships
- Beetham Eye Institute, Joslin DIabetes Center, Harvard Medical School Medical Retina 2009
- Valley Retina Institute Surgical Retina 2011
Experience & Accolades
- Vitreo-Retinal Surgeon2011 - 2017Valley Retina Institue
- Vitreo-Retinal Surgeon2017Aguadilla Eye MD
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