Degree in Medicine and Surgery from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (1977). She continued her training in the United States, with a research grant from the National Eye Institute (Bethesda, Maryland). She continued her curriculum as a Fellow in the Ocular Pathology Laboratory of the Wilmer Eye Institute (Baltimore), as a resident in Internal Medicine at the Sinai Hospital in Baltimore, and from 1984 to 1987 she trained as a resident physician in Ophthalmology at the Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary (Boston). She then completed a two-year Cornea Fellowship at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute (Miami), and settled in Turin (Italy) at the end of 1989.