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Credentials
and Qualifications
Dr.
Feiz has extensive qualifications that Trusted LASIK Surgeons estimates
place him among the top LASIK laser eye surgery and refractive surgeons
and cataract surgery specialists in the United States.
For
your convenience, these credentials and criteria have been grouped
by Experience, Premier Patient Care and Credentials. In addition,
Dr. Feiz has included some additional career highlights that while
not used by Trusted LASIK Surgeons in our screening process, clearly
demonstrate his highly distinguished career as a true pioneer in
advancing vision correction surgery throughout the world.
Dr.
Feiz’s qualifications and credentials as a top LASIK surgeons
and cataract surgery specialist include:
Experience
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Over 10 years experience in laser vision surgery, including LASIK
and PRK
- Over
10 years experience in refractive surgery, including laser vision,
IOLs, and other vision correction procedures
- Over
10 years experience in cataract surgery (including cataract surgery
with lens implants)
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Refractive and Cataract Surgery Expert Witness: Available to provide
expert witness services on behalf of plaintiffs and defendants,
including case review and expert testimony for cases involving
the following refractive and cataract eye surgery procedures
- LASIK,
PRK laser eye surgery, cataract surgery, intraocular lens
(IOL) implant procedures, including toric lenses, monofocal
lenses, and multifocal lenses
Premier
Patient Care
- Wavefront
Based (“Custom”) LASIK and PRK
laser eye surgery
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Offers complete refractive surgery care
-
LASIK
and PRK
laser eye surgery
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Intraocular lens implant surgery (IOLs) including Refractive
Lensectomy (RLE) or Clear Lensectomy (CLE) using monofocal
lenses, multifocal lenses, and toric implants
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Corneal Transplants
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Cornea transplants including anterior (DALK) and posterior
lamellar (DSAEK) as well as IntraLase assisted cornea
transplants (IEK)
-
Limbal Relaxing Incisions
-
Cataract Eye Surgery (including cataract surgery with lens
implants)
- Management
of complications of surgery for new patients who had problems
and complications from LASIK surgery or another vision correction
operation or cataract surgery performed by another eye doctor
- Other
eye surgeons, optometrists, opticians, employees of companies
that specialize in vision correction surgery devices or products,
and/or their family members have chosen Dr. Feiz to perform their
LASIK or another vision correction procedure or cataract surgery
procedure.
Professional
Credentials
- Current
Faculty Appointments:
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Past
Faculty Appointments:
- Professional
Society and Organizations- Membership and Affiliations
- Certified
by American Board of Ophhalmology
- Served
as an Examiner for the American Board of Ophthalmology
- Certification(s)
to Train oher LASIK and refractive eye surgeons
-
Reviewer:
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Cornea, 2001-present
-
Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, 2004-present
- Over
15 peer-reviewed scientific journal articles published
- Over
2 text book chapters
- Over
15 lectures and presentations on research topics at local and
national meetings of eye doctors
Additional
Career Highlights
- Meritorious
service award of the Department of Ophthalmology, University of
Arkansas for Medical Sciences
-
Clinical Instructor of the Year, Awarded by the residents at the
Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Science at UC Davis Medical
Center
- Medical
Student Instructor of Record, Dept. of Ophthalmology & Vision
Science, UC Davis
Education
and Training
- Fellowship:
Cornea,
External Diseases at UC Davis School of Medicine, Department of
Ophthalmology & Vision Sciences, Sacramento, California
- Residency:
Ophthalmology,
Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
- Internship:Transitional
Internship, St. John's Mercy Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri
- Medical
School: Washington
University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, MD
- Undergraduate:
Iowa
State University, Ames, Iowa, B.S., Biochemistry
- American
Society of Chemists Award
-
Phi Beta Kappa
Surgeon
Bio
Dr. Vahid Feiz has been practicing refractive and cataract surgery
since 2001. He has a full-time faculty appointment at the Department
of Ophthalmology of the UC Davis, where he serves as an Associate
Professor of Ophthalmology, and the Director of Refractive Surgery.
Previously, Dr. Feiz was an Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology
and Director of Refractive Surgery at the Department of Ophthalmology
of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, where he was
honored with the Meritorious Service Award of the Department of
Ophthalmology.
Certified by the American
Board of Ophthalmology (ABO), Dr. Feiz served as an Associate Examiner
of the ABO since 2007. He is professionally active in several professional
organizations. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Ophthalmology
(AAO) and a member of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive
Surgery (ASCRS), the Pan American Association of Ophthalmology (PAAO),
the Eye Bank Association of America and the California Academy of
Eye Physicians and Surgeons.
In addition to his research
and training of ophthalmology residents and fellows at UC Davis,
Dr. Feiz has published over 15 peer-reviewed research articles in
ophthalmology as well as 2 text book chapters. He has also made
over 15 presentations of research at meetings of eye doctors, both
locally and nationally.
Dr.
Feiz earned a bachelor of science degree in biochemistry at Iowa
State University where he was awarded the American Society of Chemists
Award. He is also a member of the Phi Beta Kappa honors society.
He attended medical school at the Washington School of Medicine
in St. Louis Missouri after which he did his internship at St. John’s
Mercy Hospital, also in St. Louis. He completed his residency in
ophthalmology at the School of Medicine at Boston University and
his fellowship in corneal and external diseases at the Department
of Ophthalmology & Vision Sciences at the UC Davis School of
Medicine.
Please
call (916) 734-6602 or visit Eye
Center- UC Davis Health System today for your LASIK consultation
with a trusted expert LASIK eye surgeon and vision care specialist
who is also a cataract surgeon with proven expertise.
You
now have accurate information and a direct contact to an exceptional
surgeon. Dr. Feiz’s and his exceptional staff are looking
forward to meeting with you. You questions and concerns are welcome.
Thank
you for visiting us at Trusted LASIK Surgeons.
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screening process and standards used by Trusted LASIK Surgeons,
can be found at:
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