New Orleans, Louisiana LASIK Eye Surgeon Stephen Brint,M.D.

Appointments:

(504) 888-2020
(877) 630-2020 toll free

Call today for your free LASIK consultation with a true LASIK expert who is a trusted eye surgeon and vision care specialist. Dr. Brint's exceptional qualifications are listed below.

Address:
Brint Custom Vision
4704 Veterans Blvd.
Metairie, LA 70006

Website:

Brint Custom Vision

Credentials and Qualifications

Dr. Stephen Brint has extensive qualifications that we estimate 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, Patient Care and Credentials. In addition, Dr. Brint 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. Stephen Brint's qualifications and credentials as one of the top LASIK and Cataract surgeons include:

Experience

• Recognized for performing the first LASIK procedure in the US (June 1991) as Medical Monitor of the Summit Lasik FDA study and an instrumental pioneer in rapid advances and acceptance of laser vision correction surgery technology
• Over 18 years experience in laser vision surgery, including LASIK and PRK
• Over 26 years experience in refractive surgery (laser vision, lens implants and RK)
• Performed over 30,000 LASIK and laser vision procedures
• Principal Investigator for 20 FDA Studies for laser manufacturers and lens implant manufacturers, including Summit, Autonomous, Alcon, Wavelight, Alcon ReStor Lens

Premier Patient Care

• Dr. Stephen Brint offers the only Allegretto Wave in the New Orleans area
• The only certified provider of ReSTOR, ReZOOM and Crystalens in Louisiana
• 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 Dr. Brint

Professional Credentials

• Current Faculty Appointments: (Teaching)
  • Associate Clinical Professor of Opthalmology, Department of Ophthalmology, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana
• Hospital Staff Appointments
  • Pendleton Memorial Methodist Hospital, New Orleans, Louisiana
  • Meadowcrest Hospital, Gretna, Louisiana
  • Tulane Lakeside Hospital, Metairie, Louisiana
  • Ambulatory Eye Surgery, Center of Louisiana
  • Memorial Medical Center, New Orleans, Louisiana
• Professional Society and Organizations (Membership and Affiliations)
  • American Academy of Ophthalmology
    • Honor Award
    • Senior Achievement Award
  • International Society of Refractive Surgery
  • American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery
  • American College of Surgeons
  • American Medical Association
  • Louisiana State Medical Society
  • Orleans Parish Medical Society
  • Outpatient Ophthalmic Surgery Society
  • New Orleans Academy of Ophthalmology
• Certified by American Board of Ophthalmology
• Consulting Positions (for companies that develop lasers and other ophthalmic products)
  • Alcon Cataract and Wavelight Laser
    • Train Medical Advisory Board
    • Member of Scientific Advisory Board
  • Calhoun Vision.
• Editorial Advisory Boards:
  • Editor-in-Chief - Outcomes in Ophthalmology
  • Ophthalmic Practice
  • Video Journal of Ophthalmology - Advanced Refractive Surgery Editor
  • Ocular Surgery News
  • Focus on Cornea and Anterior Segment
  • Review of Ophthalmology
  • Ophthalmology Interactive
• Reviewer:
  • American Journal of Ophthalmology
  • Journal of American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery
• Over 30 peer-reviewed scientific journal articles published
• Over 4 text books published
• Over 100 lectures on research topics at major eye meetings.

Additional Career Highlights

• Best Doctors in America: all editions. (Woodward White). Dr. Stephen Brint is the only Louisiana ophthalmologist among a total of 34 cataract and refractive surgery specialists in the United States to be recognized in Best Doctors
• Best Doctors in the Southeast: all Editions
• Named one of the top Top Louisiana Doctors in Ophthalmology by Louisiana Life Magazine, September 2009
• Recognized in New Orleans Magazine, 1995, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009 as one of the "Best Doctors in New Orleans"
• Top Fifty Opinion Leaders in Ophthalmology for every year between 2004-2007: selected by Peers for Cataract and Refractive Surgery Today
• Named in “Who's Who” in America
• Outstanding Eye Alumnus 2001, Tulane University School of Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology
• Best Paper of Session- “Measurement of Ocular Aberrations with Wavefront Sensing” given at the ASCRS 2001 Meeting
• The Kritizinger Award for achievement in Refractive Surgery

Education

• Undergraduate: Washington University
• Medical School: Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana
• Internship: Barnes Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri
• Residency: Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana

Personal Bio

LASIK pioneer Stephen Brint, M.D., was the first physician in the United States to perform the Lasik procedure in June 1991, after working with Dr. Lucio Buratto in Milan to perfect the technique. Dr. Brint was the medical monitor of the first FDA Lasik study in the United States and has been a lead investigator for both the Alcon Custom Cornea Lasik procedure as well as the Medical Monitor for all of the US FDA Wavelight Allegretto Wavefront Optimized and Custom Studies. He graduated from Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana and completed his residency there as well in 1977, continuing to serve as Associate Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology. In addition to his vast Lasik experience of over 30,000 Lasik procedures, many with the Intralase All Laser Lasik technique, he is a renowned catraact/lens surgeon, having participated in the FDA clinical trials of the new intraocular lenes including ReSTOR and ReZOOM, which typically allow the patient to have excellent vision both distance and near without glasses after cataract or lens extration.

He is Board Certified by the American Board of Ophthalmology and a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He has been recognized as “The Best Doctor in New Orleans” by New Orleans Magazine, and has been selected by his peers for the 2000-2007 editions of The Best Doctors in America. Dr. Brint is a leading Vision Correction Lecturer and the author of the three definitive textbooks on Lasik including the most recent Custom Lasik.

Dr. Brint has a passion for education and research, and has always been at the forefront of leading-edge vision correction technology, and his patients are the fortunate beneficiaries of this. He is dedicated to helping his patient’s achieve the best vision possible with the highest level of care and safety.

Dr. Stephen Brint performs surgery and lectures around the world including, Europe, Russia, China, Japan, Australia, Singapore, Africa and South America.

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