HOUSTON LASIK Eye Surgeon Stephen G. Slade, M.D., F.A.S.C.

Appointments:

(713) 626-5544

Address:

Website:

Slade and Baker Vision Texas Center

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Credentials and Qualifications

Dr. Stephen Slade has extensive qualifications that put 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. Slade 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. Slade’s qualifications and credentials as one of the top LASIK surgeons include:

Experience

• Performed the first LASIK in the United States (1991) (along with another surgeon)
• Performed the first Custom LASIK ablation based on topography in the United States
• Over 20 years experience in laser vision surgery, including LASIK
• Over 30 years experience in refractive surgery (laser vision, lens implants and RK)
• Performed over 20,000 LASIK and laser vision procedures
• Principal Investigator for numerous FDA Studies for laser manufacturers Alcon and Visx) as well as a Co-Investigator for other studies
  • B&L Technolas Excimer Laser Custom Vision Clinical Trials
• Taught and certified over 8,000 surgeons LASIK and lamellar refractive surgery
• Performed LASIK on over 400 other eye surgeons

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, CK (Conductive Keratoplasty), Phakic Implants, Limbal Relaxing Incisions, and cataract and multifocal 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. Slade
• The "Surgeon's Surgeon “: Over 400 of Dr. Slade’s fellow eye surgeons have chosen him for their own eye surgery

Professional Credentials

• Past Faculty Appointments:
  • Academic Faculty at University of Texas at Houston
• Board Certified by the American Board of Ophthalmology
• American Academy of Ophthalmology
  • Honor Award
  • Senior Honor Award
• American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (ASCRS)
  • Twice won First Place at the ASCRS Film Festival
  • Past Chair of the Refractive Surgery Section
• Houston Ophthalmological Society
• Texas Ophthalmological Association
• International Intraocular Implant Club
• American College of Surgeons
• Hospital Affiliations:River Oaks Outpatient Surgery Center, Houston, Texas
• Journal of Refractive Surgery:
  • Editorial Board
• Authored 5 Textbooks
  • Art of LASIK
  • Refractive Surgery
  • Lamellar Refractive Surgery
  • Art of LASIK Volume II
  • LASIK for Patients
• Over 50 peer-reviewed scientific journal articles published
• Numerous __ lectures on research topics at major eye meetings
  • Includes 11 named lectures

Additional Career Highlights

• “Top Fifty Opinion Leaders” in refractive surgery as named by his peers
• Named one of the “Top Texas Doctors”
• Named one of the “Best Doctors”
• Named one of the “Best Doctors in America”
• 3 patented or patent pending ophthalmic inventions
• Refractive Surgeon of the Year
• 2 China Service Medals
• Summit Technologies Pioneer of Refractive Surgery Award
• 1997 Lans Lectureship
• Past Coordinator of Corneal and Eye Banking Programs, Project ORBUS, New York, New York
  

Education/Training

• Undergraduate: Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
• Medical School: University of Texas Medical School, M.D., Houston, TX
  • Summa cum laude, with highest honors
  • Attended Guy's Hospital, London, England
• Residency: LSU Eye Center, New Orleans, LA
• Fellowships:
  • Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
  • Project ORBIS, New York, NY

Bio

Dr. Stephen Glenn Slade is a native Houstonian and is in private practice in Houston, Texas. He attended Tulane University and the University of Texas Medical School with a final, elective year spent at Guy's Hospital, London, graduating summa cum laude, with highest honors. He completed a residency at the LSU Eye Center in New Orleans and fellowships in corneal surgery at Baylor Medical College in Houston and in New York, New York on Project ORBIS.

Dr. Slade is a Fellow of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and the American College of Surgeons. He is an active teacher of surgical techniques and has taught and certified over 8,000 surgeons LASIK and lamellar refractive surgery. Dr. Slade's experience with lamellar refractive surgery began in 1980 with epikeratophakia, followed in 1983 with myopic keratomileusis.

In 1991, along with Stephen Brint MD, he performed the first LASIK in the United States. Later he performed the first Custom LASIK ablation based on topography in the United States. Dr. Slade has remained on the cutting edge, having the nation’s first and longest experience with all-laser (bladeless) LASIK, accommodating intraocular lenses for cataract surgery (crystalens) and implantable corneal contact lens. In fact, Dr. Slade was a lead investigator and presented the data to the FDA for panel approval for both the crystalens and the implantable contact lens. As part of the trial, Dr. Slade implanted the first intraocular lens for presbyopia in North America. Of unique note, Dr. Slade is considered the “surgeon’s surgeon”. Over 450 of his fellow eye surgeons have chosen him to for their own eye surgery.

He is an active researcher and the U.S. medical monitor for several new technologies including the B&L Technolas and ALCON Excimer Laser Custom Vision Clinical Trials. He has received numerous awards including 12 named lectures, Refractive Surgeon of the Year, two China Service Medals and the Summit Technologies Pioneer of Refractive Surgery Award. In 2006 the American Academy of Ophthalmology and International Society of Refractive Surgery selected Dr. Slade for the 2007 Barraquer Award and Lecture, the top award in Refractive Surgery. Dr. Slade’s peers have selected him for inclusion in “Top Fifty Opinion Leaders”, “Top Texas Doctors”, “Best Doctors” and “Best Doctors in America”. Further, he has received the Honor Award of the American Academy of Ophthalmology. He is a regular presenter at medical meetings and has received several “Best Speaker” awards and has twice won First Place at the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery Film Festival. He is on several Editorial Boards including the Journal of Refractive Surgery. Dr. Slade has produced many articles, book chapters, holds five patents or patents pending in the field and has authored five textbooks on refractive surgery. He has been featured in numerous news segments aired on CBS, ABC, NBC, UPI International and PBS as well as numerous national affiliate stations. Dr. Slade has been quoted in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and Newsweek as well as numerous local press stories. Dr. Slade was the featured surgeon on the Emmy Award winning PBS documentary “20/10 by 2010?” narrated by Walter Chronkite.

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