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Lexington LASIK Eye Surgeon Bruce Koffler, M.D.

 

Appointments:

(859) 263-4631
(800) 998-2068

Call today for your complimentary consultation. Dr. Koffler is a true LASIK expert who is a trusted eye surgeon and vision care specialist. His exceptional qualifications are listed below.

Address:

Koffler Vision Group
120 N. Eagle Creek Dr., Suite 431
Lexington, KY 40509

 

LASIK Surgeon Bruce Koffler, M.D.
Trusted LASIK Surgeon
Bruce Koffler, M.D.,
Associate Clinical Professor,
Department of Ophthalmology,
University of Kentucky School of Medicine

Web site:

Koffler Vision Group of Lexington

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Credentials and Qualifications

Dr. Bruce Koffler has extensive qualifications that we estimate put him among the top 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. Koffler 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. Koffler’s qualifications and credentials as one of the top LASIK surgeons include:

Experience

  • Over 13 years experience in laser vision surgery, including LASIK
  • Over 14 years experience in refractive surgery (laser vision and lens implants)
  • Performed over 10,000 LASIK and laser vision procedures

Premier Patient Care

  • 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 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. Koffler
Professional Credentials
  • Current Faculty Appointments
  • Hospital Appointments
    • St. Joseph's Hospital, Lexington, Kentucky
      • Board member of Saint Joseph Hospital Endowment Board
      • Past Member of Board of Directors of St. Joseph’s Hospital East (formerly Humana Hospital Lexington)
      • Past President of Medical Staff of St. Joseph’s East (formerly Humana Hospital Lexington)
      • Past Director of Cornea & External Disease Services, Center for Advanced Eye Surgery at St. Joseph’s East (formerly Humana Hospital Lexington)
      • Past Chairman of Eye Bank Committee
  • Membership in Professional Ophthalmology Societies and Organizations
    • American Academy of Ophthalmology: Fellow
      • Achievement Award
    • Member of Refractive Management/Intervention Knowledge Base Panel
      • Developed criteria and questions for recertification examination
    • International Society of Refractive Surgery: Member
    • American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery: Member
    • The Cornea Society (formerly, the Castroviejo Society): Member
    • Kentucky Academy Eye Physicians & Surgeons
      • Past Chairman and Director
    • Lexington Academy of Eye Physicians & Surgeons
      • Past President
    • Contact Lens Association of Ophthalmologists (CLAO)
      • Past Member of the Board of Directors
      • Past President
  • Certified by American Board of Ophthalmology
  • Editorial Positions
    • Contact Point (monthly CLAO publication): Past Editor
  • Over 19 peer-reviewed scientific journal articles published
  • Over 4 text book chapters and/or 1 text book published
  • Over 50 lectures and presentations on research topics at major eye meetings

Additional Career Highlights

  • Has been named by his peers as one of the “Best Doctors” in America
  • Lion's Club: Member
    • Past Member of Board of Directors
    • Past Chairman of Endowment Committee
  • Lexington Child Development Center: Member
    • Past Member of Board of Directors

Education

Personal Bio

Bruce Koffler, M.D., received his Medical degree and completed his Internship in Internal Medicine and a three-year Residency in Ophthalmology at Georgetown University. In 1979, Dr. Koffler concluded a one-year postdoctoral Fellowship in Cornea and Infectious Diseases of the Eye at the C enter for Sight, Georgetown University School of Medicine.

Dr. Koffler served as an Assistant Professor and the Director of Cornea and External Disease services in the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine from 1979 to 1983. He developed the University of Kentucky Lions Eye Bank in 1980 and was its Medical Director from 1981 to 1987. Currently, Dr. Koffler is and Associate Clinical Professor and maintains a private practice at the Kentucky Center for Vision. His scientific papers have been published in various journals, including Cornea, American Journal of Ophthalmology Archives of Ophthalmology, Perspectives in Ophthalmology, International Ophthalmology Clinics, and the Journal of the Contact Lens Association of Ophthalmologists. He has presented many numerous scientific papers at international, national, state and local professional meetings, including the American Academy of Ophthalmology Annual Meeting, the Annual Meeting of the Association of research and Vision in Ophthalmology, the Contact Lens Association of Ophthalmologists Annual Meeting, the European Contact Lens Society Meeting, the Brazilian Ophthalmology Society Meeting (SOBLEC), the Japanese Contact Lens Society, and the International Congress of Ophthalmology.

Dr. Koffler has held leadership positions in various professional organizations. He served as President of the Kentucky Academy of Eye Physicians and Surgeons, as President of the Lexington Academy of Eye Physicians and Surgeons, and has previously served as Chief of Staff of Humana Hospital – Lexington. Dr. Koffler has served two consecutive terms of office on the Board of Directors of the Contact Lens Association of Ophthalmologists. In 1999, Dr. Koffler was elected to the Executive Committee of CLAO as Chairman of Finance and Audit. He became the President of CLAO in 2002.

Dr. Koffler has been a long time community activist serving on the Lexington Child Development Center Board of Directors, creating their ophthalmic consultation program. He has been a member of the Lexington Lions Club since 1981 after creating the University of Kentucky Lexington Lions club. He was a founder of the Lexington Lions Endowment Fund, serving as Chairman from 1985 to 1998. In 1999, he was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Saint Joseph Hospital Foundation.

Dr. Koffler is co-owner of Maplecrest Farm of Lexington where he resides with his wife and three children.

View Lexington LASIK Surgeon Bruce Koffler's Curriculum Vitae

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