Charleston LASIK Eye Surgeon Kerry D. Solomon, M.D.

Appointments:

(843) 216-2020

Toll-free: (800) 894-3513

Address:

Magill Vision Center

735 Johnnie Dodds Blvd., Suite 101
Mt Pleasant, SC 29464

Web site:

Magill Vision Center

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Credentials and Qualifications

Dr. Kerry D. Solomon has extensive qualifications that place him within an elite circle comprising the top 1% of LASIK and refractive surgeons in the United States.

For your convenience, these credentials and criteria have been grouped by Experience, Patient Care and Credentials. In addition, Dr. Solomon has included some additional career highlights that while not used by Trusted LASIK Surgeons in our screening process, clearly supplement his highly distinguished career.

Dr. Solomon’s qualifications and credentials as one of the top LASIK surgeons include:

Experience

• Over 14 years experience in laser vision surgery, including LASIK
• Over 14 years experience in refractive surgery (laser vision, lens implants and RK)
• Performed over 9,000 LASIK and laser vision procedures
• Principal Investigator for 10 FDA Studies for laser manufacturers

Premier Patient Care

• Use of Intralase system for “All-Laser” or “Bladeless” LASIK
• Use of Wavefront Based (“Custom”) LASIK and PRK
• Use of iLASIK Procedure- WaveScan Technology, Intralase, and Visx Advanced CustomVue treatments
• Offers complete refractive surgery care, including LASIK, PRK, RLE / CLE, Phakic Implants, Limbal Relaxing Incisions, and cataract lens implants procedures
• Management of complications of surgery for new patients who had problems from a LASIK or other vision correction procedure performed by another doctor
• Other eye surgeons, optometrists, opticians, employees of companies that specialize in refractive surgery instrumentation or their family members have had their LASIK and other refractive surgeries performed by Dr. Solomon
  

Professional Credentials

• Current Faculty Appointments: Medical University of South Carolina
  • Director, Cornea, Cataract and Refractive Surgery (since 2000)
  • Medical Director, Magill Laser Center (since 1994)
  • Director, Magill Research Center (since 2000)
• Past Faculty Appointments
  • Chairman, Hospital Laser Committee, Medical University of South Carolina
  • Ophthalmology Ambulatory Care Committee Liason, Medical University of South Carolina
• Professional Society and Organization Memberships
  • American Academy of Ophthalmology (Member)
    • Honor’s Award
    • Senior Achievement Award
  • International Society of Refractive Surgery (Member)
    • Best paper of session, International Society of Refractive Surgery (1995)
    • American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery Member)
    • Chair of the Food and Drug Administration liaison committee
    • Best paper of session, American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (ASCRS) (April 1995)
    • Grand Prize Video at ASCRS (co-producer)( 1997)
    • Best paper of session at ASCRSvxx (1997)
    • ASCRS Video Award: First Przie for best new surgical technique (1998)
    • Best paper of session at ASCRS (2000)
    • Lee T. Nordan Achievement Award presented at ASCRS (2006)
  • Local Affiliations:
    • South Carolina Lifepoint Eye Bank
    • South Carolina Medical Association
    • Charleston Ophthalmological Society
    • South Carolina Society of Ophthalmology
    • Charleston County Medical Society
• Certified by American Board of Ophthalmology
• Co-Medical Director, South Carolina Lions Eye Bank
• Editorial Positions
  • Chief Medical Editor – Refractive Surgery Quarterly
• Editorial Board Positions
• Ocular Surgery News
• Phaco and Foldables
• Ocular Therapeutics
• Ophthalmic Practice
• Cataract & Refractive Surgery Today
• Reviewer
  • Archives of Ophthalmology
  • American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery
• Over 65 peer-reviewed scientific journal articles published
• Over 20 text book chapters and/or books
• Over 500 lectures on research topics at major eye meetings
• Over 30 surgical videos used as teaching tools throughout the world

Additional Career Highlights

• Best Doctor’s in America (2003-2004)
• Best Doctor’s in America (2005-2006)
• Top 50 Opinion Leaders in the Fields of Cataract and Refractive Surgery by Cataract & Refractive Surgery Today (2005-2006)
• Heed Fellowship Award/The Heed Ophthalmic Foundation, Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins Hospital (1992)
• Fight for Sight Research Grant/National Society to Prevent Blindness, Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins Hospital (1992)
• Grand Prize Video at ESCRS (co-producer) (2000)
• The Pierre Gautier Jenkins Award for Excellence in Resident Education, Storm Eye Institute, Medical University of South Carolina (2007)
  

Education

• Undergraduate: University of Vermont, B.A., Psychology
• Medical School: University of Vermont, College of Medicine, M.D.
• Internship: Hospital Saint Raphael, Yale University
• Residency (in Ophthalmology): University of Kentucky
  • Ophthalmology Resident Teaching Award
• Fellowship:
  • Pathology, University of Utah, Ophthalmic Health Sciences Center
  • Cornea/External Disease/Anterior Segment Surgery, Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins Hospital
    

Personal Bio

Kerry D. Solomon, MD, is the Arturo and Holly Melosi professor of ophthalmology at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) and a world-renowned surgeon specializing in cataract and refractive surgery and corneal transplantation at the Storm Eye Institute. He holds several key positions at MUSC, including Director of the cataract, refractive and cornea services at Storm Eye Institute, Medical Director of the Magill Vision Center, and Director of the Magill Research Center.

Dr. Solomon joined the MUSC faculty fifteen years ago, following his completion of his fellowship at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. At Hopkins, Dr. Solomon specialized in cataract and refractive surgery and corneal transplantation. Prior to his fellowship, he completed his residency in ophthalmology at the University of Kentucky Medical Center in Lexington, Kentucky and an internship in medicine at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. In addition, Dr. Solomon has completed a fellowship in ophthalmic pathology at the University of Utah Health Sciences Center in Salt Lake City, Utah, and completed both his doctorate in medicine and bachelor degree at the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vermont.

In addition to his local clinical practice and administrative duties, Dr. Solomon is active in multiple ophthalmic organizations. He is certified by the American Board of Ophthalmology, holds memberships in a number of professional and scientific societies and is actively involved on a national and international basis with many prominent societies. He is a fellow with the American Academy of Ophthalmology where he serves on several committees and also received an honor award for his achievements. He is Chair of the Food and Drug Administration liaison committee for the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (ASCRS) and also serves as a member of various committees for the ASCRS. Additionally, Dr Solomon is involved with the South Carolina Medical Association, Charleston Ophthalmological Society, South Carolina Society of Ophthalmology and the Charleston County Medical Society.

Over his approximately 20 years of practicing medicine, Dr. Solomon has achieved status among the country’s best ophthalmic surgeons, and has received dozens of awards, including the Lee Nordan Refractive Surgeon of the Year Award, an award given to the surgeon who has had the greatest impact in the field, by Cataract and Refractive Surgery Today. He has been ranked as one of ‘America’s Best Doctors’ annually for cataract and refractive surgery since 2004. He has also been voted in the Top Fifty Opinion Leaders in Ophthalmology in the world by his peers since 2005, the inception of this award. He routinely speaks at both national and international meetings and hospitals and to date has presented more than 500 lectures and live surgical demonstrations worldwide.

In addition to speaking globally, he has written over 170 publications including book chapters, book reviews, monographs and magazine articles, and produced more than 30 surgical videos and has received awards for many of these videos which are used as teaching tools throughout the world. Finally, Dr. Solomon’s work has been recognized by multiple popular magazines and newspapers including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Money, The Saturday Evening Post, Redbook and Reader’s Digest. He has also been featured in television specials such as PBS’s “Cataract Surgery” as part of the ‘Healthy Body, Healthy Mind’ series, which is currently airing across the United States and in over 140 countries worldwide.

But, as Dr. Solomon puts it, practicing medicine is not all about awards or positions, “practicing medicine is about loving what you do, treating every patient like family, and knowing that if you do your best, you can change people’s lives for the better.”

View Charleston Lasik Surgeon Kerry D. Solomon Curriculum Vitae

 

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