Dr. Espinosa is a graduate of the University of Cartagena in Cartagena, Colombia where he completed his medical degree. He then completed an ophthalmology residency training at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogota, Colombia and further ophthalmic fellowship training in vitreoretinal diseases at the Military Hospital HG-1 in Quito, Ecuador. He received a 6-month Pan-American Research Scholarship to Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in Miami, FL at the University of Miami. While there, he also completed a 3-year post-doctoral fellowship in macular diseases with an emphasis in age-related macular degeneration (AMD). He served 2 years as Research Instructor at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, working on the mechanisms that are involved in the pathogenesis of dry and wet AMD as well as the factors in the regulation and progression of dry to wet AMD and the understanding of vision loss in this disease.
After his term at the University of Miami, Dr. Espinosa completed a general surgery internship at Jackson Memorial Hospital followed by ophthalmology residency at the Medical College of Georgia. His fellowships in medical retina were completed at Duke Eye Center followed by vitreo-retinal surgery at West Virginia Eye Institute.
Having completed his U.S. training, Dr. Espinosa returned to the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University achieving the rank of Professor and became the Director of the Vitreo-Retinal, Uveitis, and Ocular Immunology Services and the Director of the Vitreoretinal Fellowship.
He specializes in medical and surgical vitreoretinal diseases, diabetic retinopathy, age-related macular degeneration, macular diseases, retinal vascular diseases, retinal degenerations, retinal swelling, inflammation/infection of the retina and uveal tract, and retinal detachments.
