Gustavo Tamayo

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Gustavo E. Tamayo is a Colombian ophthalmologist known for developing a refractive surgery method known as Contoured Ablation Patterns (CAP), which enables doctors to make surgeries faster and at an easier rate. Tamayo has also developed a procedure to treat presbyopia, which is at the moment being tested by AMO/VISX in order to massively apply this procedure in a global manner. He is currently one of the few doctors that appear in the Colombian second version of Extreme Makeover ("Cambio Extremo: 2")^[1]. He is the president and owner of a surgical eye clinic in the north of Bogotá called Bogota Laser Refractive Institute. Besides he is member of 19 international scientific societies, he is author of 8 chapters in refractive surgery books, and has over 100 articles in international magazines. Tamayo is an actual teacher guest on congress of ophthalmology around the globe.^[2]