Sacramento LASIK Surgeon Richard Meister, M.D.

Appointments:

(916) 635-4878

Address:

Pacific Laser Eye Center
11220 Gold Express Dr. Ste. 405
Gold River, CA 95670

Website:

Pacific Laser Eye Center

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Credentials and Qualifications

Dr. Richard Meister has extensive qualifications that we estimate place him within an elite circle comprising 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. Meister 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. Meister’s qualifications and credentials as one of the top LASIK surgeons include:

Experience

• First surgeon in Sacramento to perform PRK, excimer laser surgery on patients
• First surgeon in Northern California to perform ALK in 1993
• First Sacramento surgeon to perform LASIK, which he performed in 1995, which he previously began performing internationally in 1984. (LASIK is a combination procedure involving the excimer laser and ALK.)
• Over 13 years experience in laser vision surgery, including LASIK
• Over 26 years experience in refractive surgery (laser vision, lens implants and RK)
• Performed over 15,000 LASIK and laser vision procedures
• Principal Investigator for 4 FDA Studies for laser manufacturers (Alcon, Visx, Coherent 1, Presbycorp Studynote) 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 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. Meister

Professional Credentials

• American Academy of Ophthalmology (Member)
• International Society of Refractive Surgery (Member)
• American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (Member)
• Certified by American Board of Ophthalmology
• Hospital and Institutional Staff Appointments
• Local Societies:
• Hospital Appointments
• Past Faculty Appointments
  • Associate Professor Southern California College of Optometry
• 7 peer-reviewed scientific journal articles published
• Over ___ lectures on research topics at major eye meetings
  • April, 2005: American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons Annual Conference, Refractive Symposium Outcomes of PTH (partial thickness defects) with consecutive excimer laser treatment vs FTD (full thickness defect/”buttonholes”).
  • November,2004 AAO Early Outcomes of Wavefront Excimer treatment of myopia & astigmatism with the Ladar 4000
  • 1995: American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons Annual Conference, “Enhancement of Refractive Surgeries”
  • 1984: Presented paper, “Jump T’s for Astigmatic Surgery”, Annual American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery Meeting in San Francisco
    

Additional Career Highlights

• VisX Star Award
• VisX Star Award for Top 50 U.S. Surgeons

Education

• Undergraduate:
  • Central State University, Edmond, OK
  • University of Oklahoma, Bachelor of Science, Zoology
  • University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, Bachelor of Science, Medicine
• Graduate Studies:
• UC Berkeley, Physiology
• University of North Dakota, Bachelor of Science, Medicine
• Medical School
• UC Davis School of Medicine, Doctor of Medicine
• Internship:
• Internal Medicine Flexible Internship, UCLA School of Medicine at Harbor General Hospital/LA County
• Residency (in Ophthalmology):
  • Hermann Eye Center, UT Houston
    • Outstanding Resident
    • Chief Resident-Third Year
  • Hermann Hospital and University of Texas
  • Affiliated Hospitals, Houston, Texas

Personal Bio

Richard Meister, M.D., graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 1971 with a B.S. in Zoology and Science Education Bachelor of Science degrees. Prior to medical school, Dr. Meister attended post-graduate courses at UC Berkeley while doing research in microsurgery at Mt. Zion Hospital in San Francisco as director of the experimental surgery lab. In 1978, he completed a Bachelor of Science degree in Medicine at the University of North Dakota. He graduated from medical school at UC Davis in 1980 and in 1981, he completed his internal medicine internship at UCLA Harbor General Hospital in Torrance, CA. Dr. Meister completed his ophthalmology residency at the prestigious Hermann Eye Center, University of Texas at Houston in 1984. He served as chief resident and was voted “Most Outstanding Resident” by his peers.

Dr. Meister has specialized in refractive surgery since establishing his Sacramento area practice in 1984. He is a true pioneer in the field of refractive surgery. In 1984, he was the first surgeon in Northern California to perform radial keratotomy using the Russian Technique. Seven years later, Dr. Meister introduced a new surgical technique to the area and became the first surgeon to perform ALK in Northern California. Prior to the FDA approval of excimer laser vision correction in the United States, he began traveling out of the country with his ALK keratome in 1993 to perform LASIK as it was being developed worldwide.

Since the FDA approval of the excimer laser in 1995, Dr. Meister has performed thousands of laser vision correction procedures in the United States. He was the first surgeon to perform laser vision correction on patients in Sacramento in December of 1995. In 1996, Dr. Meister became the co-medical director and a founding partner of Pacific Laser Eye Center, where he performs laser vision correction and other refractive procedures for patients in the greater Sacramento area.

Dr. Meister performed early excimer research on hyperopia and astigmatism treatments for the FDA beginning in 1997. He began treating hyperopia and astigmatism long before other surgeons in the U.S. In January 2003, he was the first in Northern California to obtain space age Wavefront technology, allowing the treatment of defects in the optical system that were previously unmeasurable. Dr. Meister now uses the WaveLight Allegretto Wave laser for the majority of his laser vision procedures. The Allegretto Wave’s ability to reshape the eye while compensating for the cornea’s natural aspheric shape provides superior visual outcomes with many patients achieving better than 20/20 vision.

Dr. Meister is committed to remaining at the leading edge of new refractive technology. He remains current through an international network of leading surgeons, which allows him to deliver the most up-to-date care to his patients. Dr. Meister is a certified instructor for teaching physicians excimer laser surgery. He has appeared on radio and TV programs Statewide and lectured internationally on refractive surgery.

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