It is already an exciting summer for us here.   We would love to take this opportunity to welcome our newest member to our team of specialists at the Center For Excellence in Eye Care in Miami, Dr. Ana Carolina Victoria, MD.  We wanted to share Dr. Victoria’s extensive credentials and biography with you as we are so proud to have her on our team!

Dr. Victoria specializes in Oculofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Her practice is dedicated to aesthetic, functional and reconstructive surgery specializing in the face, orbits, eyelids, and lacrimal system. She completed her ophthalmology residency at Montefiore Medical Center in New York where she was chief resident. She is a Board certified Ophthalmologist by the American Board of Ophthalmology (http://abop.org), the oldest medical certifying Board in the United States.

She then went on to train as a fellow in Craniofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Miami Children’s Hospital with Dr. Anthony Wolfe. During her training, she was exposed to congenital malformations, craniosynostoses, cleft lip and palate, cranio-facial trauma, tumors, and facial cosmetic surgery. She then spent two-years as an ASOPRS (www.asoprs.org) fellow in Oculofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore under the tutelage of Dr. James Karesh and Dr. Marc Hirschbein. There, she trained in disorders and surgery relating to the eyelids, brows, orbits, lacrimal system, thyroid eye disease, and facial cosmetic surgery.

Dr. Victoria relocated to South Florida in July 2014. She is passionate about delivering care to the under-served, and has participated in several medical missions during her training, including missions to India, Honduras, Guatemala, Colombia and Ecuador.

Being a woman, Dr. Victoria has a personal understanding of what women want and need. She carries no hard shell around. Dr. Victoria spends the time needed to fully educate you and make sure you are aware of all your options, ensuring you have a full understanding of the treatment or procedure you are considering.

Dr. Victoria offers both surgical and non-surgical rejuvenation treatments, providing you with a wider range of cosmetic treatments and procedures than most. Dr. Victoria believes in options and provides you with the most personalized choices to best suit your needs.

Dr. Victoria grew up in her native Colombia and moved to the United States in 1994, where she finished high school. She earned her Bachelor’s degree at the University of Florida as Cum Laude with a major in Microbiology and Cell Science, and a minor in Spanish. She is a proud mother of triplet boys, and loves traveling, dancing, and tasting new foods.

If you are interested in any aesthetic or cosmetic treatments and would like a consultation with Dr. Victoria, please contact us at Laura@centerforeyecare.com or dial our special cosmetic line at 786-519-2205 and let us know how you heard about Dr. Victoria.  We are so proud to have her as part of our team here and is already busy making our patients very happy with their results!