Sandra Montezuma M.D is a Professor in Ophthalmology at the University of Minnesota. She earned her medical degree from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. She did her first residency training in ophthalmology at the Fundacion Oftalmologica de Santander, Colombia in 2001. She completed 10 more years of training at Harvard Medical School. In 2001 she joined the Boston Retinal Implant Project at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary/Harvard Medical School, where she performed basic science research for nearly 4 years. After her Research fellowship, she completed a second surgical internship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in 2005, a second residency in ophthalmology in 2008 and a Surgical Retina fellowship in 2010 at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary/Harvard Medical School. She joined the University of Minnesota in 2010. She is the current chief of the retina department at the UMN. Her research interest includes translational research in Age-Related Macular Degeneration, Inherited Retinal Diseases, retinal implants, retinal prosthesis, and retina surgery. Being a part of discovering cures for blinding conditions is Dr. Montezuma’s passion. Dr. Montezuma has subspecialty expertise in providing medical and surgical care for all retina diseases in adults and children, including macular degeneration, inherited retinal dystrophies, diabetic retinopathy, retina detachments, macula holes, eye trauma, and retinopathy of prematurity.