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Philadelphia LASIK Surgeon Steven Siepser, M.D., F.A.C.S.

 

Appointments:

(888) 859-2020.
(610) 265-2020

Address:

Siepser Laser Eyecare
860 East Swedesford Road
Wayne, PA 19087

Siepser Laser Eyecare
633 W. Germantown Pike – Suite 100
Plymouth Meeting, PA 19462


Trusted LASIK Surgeon
Steven Siepser, M.D.

 

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Dr. Steven Siepser

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Credentials and Qualifications

Dr. Steven Siepser has extensive qualifications that put him within an elite circle 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. Siepser 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. Siepser ’s qualifications and credentials as one of the top LASIK surgeons include:

Experience

  • Over 15 years experience in laser vision surgery, including LASIK
  • Over 20 years experience in refractive surgery (laser vision, lens implants and RK)
  • Performed over 7,000 LASIK and laser vision procedures
  • Principal Investigator for 1 FDA Studies for Excimer laser

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 this Dr. Siepser
Professional Credentials
  • American Academy of Ophthalmology (Member)
  • International Society of Refractive Surgery (Member)
  • American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (ASCRS) (Member)
    • ASCRS– San Diego, CA. Best Paper of Session – Session 4-L Intraocular Surgery: Phaco Technique and Technology – New Soft Implant Splitter (April 2007)
    • Symposium on Cataract, IOL and Refractive Surgery, San Francisco, California: Best Paper of Session (BPOS) Winner, Session 2H - REFRACTIVE—LASIK- Glare Assessment Before and After Vision Correction (April 2003)
    • ASCRS 1994 Film Festival Runner-Up in Instruments/Devices Category - “New Technology for Transclerally Fixated Posterior Chamber Lenses and Reconstructive Surgery” (April 1994)
    • ASCRS 1993 Film Festival Runner-Up for “Iris Protector Ring” (April 1993)
    • ASCRS Alcon Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA, First Place Winner in New Technique Category - “Radial Transverse Incision for Small Incision Surgery” (March 1980)
  • International College of SurgeonsInternational College of Surgeons (Member)
  • American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology (Member)
  • Inter-County Ophthalmology Society (Member)
  • Ophthalmic Club of Philadelphia (Member)
  • Philadelphia County Medical Society (Member)
  • Pennsylvania State Medical Society (Member)
  • American Medical Association American Medical Association (Member)
  • Kerato-Refractive Society (Member)
  • The Out-Patient Ophthalmic Surgery Society (Member)
  • International Society of Ophthalmic Endoscopy, Inc. (Member)
  • Temple Ophthalmology Alumni Association (Member)
  • Chester County Medical Society (Member)
  • Certified by American Board of Ophthalmology
  • Fellow of the American College of Surgeons
  • Federal Aviation Administration, an active Aviation Medical Examiner Aviation Medical Examiner
  • Current Faculty Appointments: Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
  • Surgical Privileges at:
  • Over 20 peer-reviewed scientific journal articles published
  • 2 text book chapters and/or books published
  • Over 20 lectures on research topics at major eye meetings

Additional Career Highlights

  • Patents Developed by Dr. Siepser
    • Novel Procedures For Intraocular Surgery (U.S. Patent No. 5,098,438)(1992)
    • Apparatus For Compressing, Deforming and Dehydrating Expansile U.S. Patent No. 4,993,936 (1991)
    • Hydrogel Intraocular Lens
      • Device Used To Change Corneal Curvature (U.S. Patent No. 4,976,719)(1990)
      • Self-Centering Artificial Intraocular Lens (U.S. Patent No. 4,734,095)(1988)
      • Improved Artificial Intraocular Lenses and Method for Their Surgical Implantation, Ser.#520,187 (U.S. Patent No. 4,556,998)(1985)
  • VISX Star Surgeon Recognition for Outstanding Achievement in Laser Vision Correction (1999, 2000)
  • Philadelphia Magazine, recognition as one of Philadelphia’s “Top Doctors” (1999, 2000)
  • International Experience:
    • Visiting Ophthalmic Surgeon: Grand Turk Hospital, Turks & Caicos (1996)
    • Volunteer Ophthalmologist: Eye Care Clinic, Jacmel Haiti: (1983)
    • Visiting Chief of Ophthalmology: LBJ Tropical Medical HospitalLBJ Tropical Medical Hospital, Pago, American Samoa (1981)
    • Visiting Student: Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya
    • Field Physician for Screening Clinics of the Belgian National Cancer Prevention Program

Education

Personal Bio

Dr. Siepser received his MD at State University of New York and completed his residency at University in Philadelphia. He is certified by the American Board of Ophthalmology, American Board of Surgery, and is a fellow of the American College of Surgery (FACS).

Dr. Siepser participated in the FDA investigation for approval of the VISX laser for treating myopia. He is the first and most experienced LASIK surgeon with the VISX laser in the Delaware Valley.

Dr. Siepser has surgical privileges at Wills Eye, Montgomery, Brandywine, and Suburban Mercy Hospitals; Wills Eye Surgical Center at Plymouth Meeting; VisionOne Laser and surgery; and Bryn Mawr and Paoli Surgical Centers.

His ophthalmic specialties are refractive vision correction (LASIK and INTACStm Corneal Rings), astigmatism correction, cataract and intraocular lens surgery, glaucoma treatments, secondary intraocular lens implants, corneal transplantation and reconstructive eye surgery and complications from trauma or prior eye surgery.

Dr. Siepser is published in numerous journals worldwide and is a holder of five United States patents.

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