Dr Amescua is associate Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology and Medical Director of the Ocular Surface Program at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in Miami, Florida. He is an expert at Corneal and External Diseases, Ocular Surface Disorders and Microbiology, and High Risk Corneal Transplantation. He is certified by the American Board of Ophthalmology.

He holds an MD from Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico and was a research scholar, Ocular Immunology, at the Cole Eye Institute in Cleveland Ohio