Dr. Jose J. Echegaray arrived at the University Hospitals Eye Institute in 2020 and serves as an Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. He is an ophthalmologist with sub-specialty training in vitreoretinal surgery and ocular oncology.

Dr. Echegaray was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He completed his undergraduate training with a Bachelor of Arts in Neurosciences at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, where he served as a Gates Scholar. He then returned home to Puerto Rico to complete his medical degree at the Ponce Health Sciences University, graduating with honors and distinction. During medical school, he served as a one-year National Institutes of Health research fellow in ocular immunology at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. He then completed a pre-residency fellowship in ocular pathology, also at Bascom Palmer. He completed his residency training in ophthalmology at the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine, where he served as Chief Resident and was honored with the Vista Scholarship Fund Award. For his sub-specialty training, Dr. Echegaray came to Cleveland to complete a clinical fellowship in ophthalmic oncology at the Cleveland Clinic Cole Eye Institute, training in the clinical and surgical management of adult and pediatric ocular tumors. He then returned to Miami to complete a 2-year vitreoretinal surgery fellowship at the world-renowned Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, training in the clinical and surgical management of adult and pediatric retinal diseases.

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