MYOPIA IN SCHOOL-AGE CHILDREN
RAFAEL IRIBARREN
我16岁时立志学医，并全心投入学习，在1976年我23岁时以优异的成绩从布宜诺斯艾利斯大学医学院毕业。与此同时我患上了轻微近视，我在晚上看不清公交车号。当时我以为这是学习太多所致 (哦，祖奶奶们都是这样说的)
起初我在教育部的卫生部门工作，负责Pompeya社区的在校儿童，同时也从事儿童家庭急救。之后我决定接续我的家族传承，进入家族的专业领域——我出身于阿根廷一个颇有影响力的眼科医生世家。从1980年开始，我学习成为一名眼科医生。当时的我始终对近视者不戴眼镜也能阅读的现象深感兴趣，这似乎表明近视是人类为了更轻松的阅读而做出的生物性调整。
到1995年我的父亲(亦是我的眼科导师)去世时，我已经从多年的行医看诊和治疗患者的过程中获得了丰富的专业经验。随着互联网的普及，我得以即时获取所有关于近视的国际研究资讯。我结识了德国的Frank Schaeffel教授、加拿大的Bill Stell教授和澳大利亚的Ian Morgan教授，他们均投身于关于近视的动物研究，试图干预近视发展中的动物以防止近视加剧。这预示着通过药物（即我们现在使用的药物）来防止近视的可能性。我开始积极投入这一研究方向。我与弗洛伦西亚·科蒂内斯（Florencia Cortinez）和何塞·奇亚普（José P. Chiappe）一起研究统计了阿根廷的近视患者人口，并在著名的《布宜诺斯艾利斯医学杂志》上发表了研究成果。
从2000年起，在我的哥哥Guillermo和上述研究人员，以及来自阿根廷、比利时、荷兰、波兰、葡萄牙、德国、挪威、以色列、伊朗、印度、美国、巴西、厄瓜多尔、日本、新加坡以及中国的上海、山东、香港和北京等许多人的帮助下，我在众多国际期刊杂志上发表了一系列关于近视的独立临床研究。许多患者和医生为我的艰辛的研究工作提供了无私帮助，慷慨解囊，资助我将这些来之不易的研究成果发表在重要的国际期刊上，在个别情况下，资助金额甚至达到数千美元。对此我始终心怀感恩。
今天，科普时代到来，是时候向社会大众普及这些科研成果了，比如 “儿童近视的发生是由于日常没有保证充足的户外活动”，“过长时间的阅读”和“睡前刷手机”也会导致近视增加，“疫情中的封锁加剧了近视”等等。
我们可以试着用更多时间来分享和倾听，讲述彼此的故事，如同曾经的非工业化时代那样，让每一天的生活更多的在户外的无垠天地中展开。
我没有博士学位，没有基金会，没有学术头衔，但我将毕生所学和精力全部投入于近视及其成因的研究，是专业领域里公认的研究近视的专家。如果你想拓宽自己在这些问题上的知识见闻，请给我发WhatsApp，我们安排一次聊天。我的WhatsApp：+54 9 11 5147-9312.
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