Irvine LASIK Surgeon Roger Steinert, M.D.

Appointments:

Irvine: (949) 824-2020
Orange: (714) 456-7183
Toll Free: (888) 456-7183

Address:

Gottschalk Medical Plaza
UC Irvine
1 Medical Plaza Drive
Irvine CA 92697
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UC Irvine Medical
Center Ophthalmology Clinic
101 The City Drive South
Pavilion II, 2nd Floor
Orange, CA 92697

Website(s) :

UC Irvine- The Eye Institute

Dr. Steinert's Web Site

Credentials and Qualifications

Dr. Steinert has extensive qualifications that put him within an elite circle comprising the top 1% of LASIK and refractive surgeons in the U.S. Below is a summary of Dr. Steinert’s qualifications.

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

Experience

• Over 20 years experience in laser vision surgery, including LASIK
• Over 25 years experience in refractive surgery (laser vision, lens implants and RK)
• Performed over 18,000 LASIK and laser vision procedures
• Principal Investigator for FDA Studies for laser manufacturers (Alcon and Visx) as well as a Co-Investigator for other studies.

Premier Patient Care

• Use of IntraLase system for “All-Laser” or “Bladeless” LASIK
• Use of Wavefront Based (“Custom”) LASIK and PRK
• Offers complete refractive surgery care, including LASIK, PRK, RLE / CLE, CK (Conductive Keratoplasty), Phakic Implants, Limbal Relaxing Incisions, and cataract lens implants procedures
• Management of complications of surgery for new patients who had problems from a surgery 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. Steinert
  

Professional Credentials

• Fellow, American Academy of Ophthalmology
  • Recipient of Senior Honor Award
• Past President and Program Chair, American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery
• Member, International Society of Refractive Surgery
  • Past member of Board of Directors
  • 2008 Barraquer Lecturer
• Certified by American Board of Ophthalmology
• Board Examiner for 2 decades
• Faculty Appointments at the Department of Opthalmology, University of California at Irvine include:
  • Vice Chairman of Clinical Ophthalmology
  • Director of Refractive, Cornea and Cataract Surgery
  • Professor of Ophthalmology and Biomedical Engineering
• Over 120 peer-review scientific journal articles
• Over 60 text book chapters
• 5 textbooks
• Over 1,000 national and international lectures and courses
• Pioneering research on excimer laser refractive surgery beginning in 1983

Additional Career Highlights

• Named Associate Editor of Ophthalmology, The Journal of the American Academy of Ophthalmology. Ophthalmology is the most respected and frequently cited peer-review clinical journal in ophthalmology.
  
• Recipient of the "Top Educational Videotape" award for his film "Femtosecond Laser Corneal Transplantation" at the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery annual meeting in Stockholm, Sweden. This new technique, which speeds up vision recovery and yields better vision than conventional corneal transplantation surgery, was developed in laboratory work and then pioneering surgery here at UC Irvine.
• Voted by peers as one of Woodward and White's "Best Doctors in America" since 1994.
• Listed in Castle Connolly's "Top Doctors in America" since 2001.
  

Education

• Undergraduate: Harvard College
• Medical School: Harvard Medical School
• Residency: Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary (MEEI)

Personal Bio

A graduate of Harvard College summa cum laude and Harvard Medical School, Dr. Steinert received his ophthalmology training at the Harvard-Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. He held faculty positions at Harvard Medical School until being recruited in 2004 to the University of California, Irvine, where he is Professor of Ophthalmology, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Director of Refractive, Cornea, and Cataract Surgery, and Vice Chair of Ophthalmology.

Dr. Steinert’s career-long commitment to laser technology and therapy led to his involvement in the first stage of excimer laser refractive surgery and LASIK. While he was a Visiting Scientist at M.I.T., his laboratory group was the second in the world to begin studying the applications of the excimer laser in 1983. He was in the first group of surgeons in the U.S. FDA trials of PTK (phototherapeutic keratectomy) and PRK (photorefractive keratectomy), and was the Medical Monitor for the FDA trial that achieved the first FDA approval of PRK in humans in 1995. He has continued to actively perform surgery, participate in clinical trials of LASIK, PRK, and other refractive surgeries, teach and lecture internationally, and write peer-review scientific journal studies, chapters, and text books on refractive surgery.

Along the way, Dr. Steinert has held many leadership positions in refractive surgery, including a term as President of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, current service as Program Chair for that society, a term on the Board of Directors of the International Society of Refractive Surgery (ISRS), and a current appointment as Associate Editor for Refractive Matters for Ophthalmology, the official journal of the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO). He was a founding member of the Refractive Surgery Interest Group of the AAO. He has been invited to numerous academic programs as Visiting Professor and given many named lectureships. A recent honor is being named the 2008 Barraquer Lecturer at the AAO/ISRS, the most prestigious honor in refractive surgery. Dr. Steinert is also a long-standing examiner for the American Board of Ophthalmology.

 

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