Los Angeles LASIK Eye Surgeon David Huang, M.D. Phd

Appointments:

(323) 442-6377

Address:

Doheny Laser Vision Center
1450 San Pablo Street, 4th Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90033

Website(s):

The Doheny Laser Vision Center

Doheny Eye Institute

Qualifications/Credentials

Dr. David Huang, MD. PhD, has extensive qualifications that Trusted LASIK Surgeons estimates place him among the top 1% of LASIK and refractive surgeons in the United States.

For your convenience, these credentials and criteria have been grouped by Experience, Premier Patient Care and Credentials. In addition, Dr. Huang 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. Huang's qualifications and credentials as one of the top LASIK surgeons include:

Experience

• Over 10 years experience in laser vision surgery, including LASIK
• Over 10 years experience in refractive surgery (laser vision, lens
  implants and RK)
• Performed over 2,000 LASIK and laser vision procedures·
  Co-investigator for 2 FDA studies for laser manufacturers
  (Summit, Alcon)

Premiere 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, 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 this Surgeon

Professional Credentials

• Current Faculty Appointments: University of Southern California  
  • Charles C. Manger III, MD Chair in Corneal Laser Surgery
  • Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and Biomedical Engineering, 2004- present
  • Medical Director, Doheny Laser Vision Center, 2004-present
  • Attending Physician, Cornea Service,Doheny Eye Institute 2004-present __
  • Leads Center for Ophthalmic Lasers (COOL), a state of the art research center focusing on the application of biomedical optics in clinical medicine. COOL lab encompasses an extensive range of research areas in both optics and ophthalmology. (COOL is connected to the Doheny Eye Institute at the University of Southern California.
• Past Faculty Appointments
  • Associate Staff, Cleveland Clinic Cole Eye Institute
  • Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Case Western Reserve University
  • Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology and Biomedical Engineering, Ohio State University
• Professional Society and Organizational Memberships
  • American Academy of Ophthalmology (Member)
• Achievement award, 2004
• Ophthalmic Technology Assessment Committee, Refractive Surgery Panel 2001-2008
• Committee on Ophthalmic Procedure Assessment, Refractive Surgery Panel 2000
• Fellow since 1999
• International Society of Refractive Surgery
• Past Member
• American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (Member)
• Los Angeles Society of Ophthalmology
• Max Fine Cornea Society
• International Society for Imaging in the Eye
  (Member)
  • Founding governing board member, 2002-present
  • Editorial Board of Ophthalmic Surgery Laser and Imaging,  2002-present
• Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (Member)
  • Co-Chair, Cornea Section of the Annual Meeting Program Committee, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, 2006-2007
  • Member, Cornea Section of the Annual Meeting Program  Committee, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, 2004-2006
• National Institutes of Health
  • Principal investigator of 3 active R01 grants
  • Principal investigator of 1 completed R01 grant
  • Co-investigator of 1 R01 grant
• Served on 4 scientific review panels
• Certified by American Board of Ophthalmology
• Consulting Positions:
  • Member, Data Safety Monitoring Board, “A Two-Phase Pilot/Pivotal Study to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of the Trans Corneal Glaucoma Shunt in Patients with Glaucoma,” study sponsored by Becton Dickenson, 2006-present
  • Member, Scientific and Medical Advisory Board, Optovue, Inc., 2006-present
  • Consultant, Johnson & Johnson Vistakon, 2007-2008
  • Consultant, Revision, Inc., 2008
• Editorial Board Memberships:
• Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery, July 2002-present
• Surgery Lasers & Imaging, May 2002-present
• Reviewer: American Journal of Ophthalmology, British Journal of Ophthalmology, Cornea Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, Journal of Refractive Surgery, Journal of Biomedical Optics, Ophthalmology,Optics Express
• Over 55 peer-reviewed scientific journal articles published
• 2 text books and 13 book chapters
• Lectures on research topics at major eye meetings
  • 44 invited lectures
  • 99 conference presentations
• Director of 19 instruction courses at the American Academy of Ophthalmology annual meetings.

Additional Career Highlights

• Over 8 patents and 6 patents pending
• Co-inventor of optical coherence tomography
• Named as one of the Best Doctors in America since 2007
• Voted one of the Top Doctors of the San Gabriel Valley by Pasadena Magazine

Education:

• Undergraduate: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, BS (Electrical Engineering)
• Graduate School: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MS (Electrical Engineering), PhD (Medical Engineering & Medical Physics)
• Medical School: Harvard Medical School, MD
• Internship: Mercy Hospital, San Diego, Transitional-Year Internship
• Residency: University of Southern California, Doheny Eye Institute
• Fellowship: Emory University, Cornea, External Diseases, and Refractive Surgery

Bio

David Huang, MD, PhD is the Director of the Doheny Laser Vision Center, Charles C. Manger III, MD Chair of Corneal Laser Surgery, and Associate Professor of Ophthalmology & Biomedical Engineering at the University of Southern California. He performs LASIK and PRK with the CustomVue technology for the correction of nearsightedness (myopia), farsightedness (hyperopia), astigmatism and presbyopia. For patients who cannot have laser vision correction, he also performs Intacs intracorneal implants, Verisyse phakic intraocular lens implants, astigmatic keratotomy (AK), and natural lens replacement procedures. He is also widely consulted for complications of LASIK, corneal transplantation and other corneal surgeries.

Dr. Huang earned his MD degree from Harvard Medical School. He completed ophthalmology residency training at the Doheny Eye Institute, University of Southern California, and fellowship training in Corneal Diseases and Refractive Surgery at Emory University. He also earned a PhD degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the field of Medical Engineering and Medical Physics. As part of the PhD research, Dr. Huang co-invented optical coherence tomography (OCT), a high-resolution cross-sectional imaging technology that is now indispensable in the diagnosis of eye diseases. His PhD research also included development of femtosecond lasers, which are now widely used in corneal and refractive surgery. He is one of a very few doctors with deep understanding of laser surgery from both a clinical and engineering perspective.

Dr. Huang is well known for his research and teaching in refractive surgery, laser and imaging technologies. The National Institute of Health (NIH) has awarded him 4 research grants totaling over 8 million dollars. He has produced over 70 scientific articles and book chapters, 8 patented inventions and 2 books. He has taught 19 instruction courses at the American Academy of Ophthalmology and delivered 99 conference presentations and 44 invited lectures.

For his contributions to ophthalmology, Dr. Huang has been recognized with the Achievement Award from the American Academy of Ophthalmology. For his excellence in clinical care, Dr. Huang has been voted by his peers as one of the Top Doctors in America. Most recently, he received an endowed chair at the University of Southern California. Dr. Charles C. Manger III, MD, a pioneer in refractive surgery himself, endowed the Chair in Corneal Laser Surgery to support Dr. Huang’s continuing research in improving the safety of corneal laser surgery and developing new laser surgery options for patients with corneal diseases.

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