Credentials and Qualifications

Dr. James Davison has extensive professional qualifications that, in Trusted LASIK Surgeons opinion, put him among the top 1% of LASIK, laser vision, refractive, and cataract surgeons in the United States.

For your convenience, these credentials and criteria have been grouped by Experience, Patient Care and Credentials. In addition, Dr. Davison 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.Davison ’s qualifications and credentials as one of the top LASIK and refractive surgeons as well as cataract surgery expert include:

Experience

• Over 14 years experience in laser vision surgery, including LASIK
• Over 31 years experience in refractive surgery (laser vision, lens implants and RK)
• Over 31 years experience in cataract surgery (including cataract surgery with lens implants)
• Performed over 4,000 LASIK and laser vision procedures
• Performed over 40,000 cataract surgery procedures (including cataract surgery with lens implants)
• Principal Investigator for 3 FDA clinical studies for manufacturers of lasers and other devices, products, and/or medications related to vision and general eyecare

Premier Patient Care

• “All-Laser” LASIK (bladeless) using the IntraLase laser
• Wavefront Based (“Custom”) LASIK and PRK laser eye surgery
• Offers complete refractive surgery care
  • LASIK and PRK laser eye surgery
  • Intraocular lens implant surgery (IOLs) including Refractive Lensectomy (RLE) or Clear Lensectomy (CLE) using: monofocal lenses, premium lenses like multifocal
    lenses, and accommodating lenses, as well as phakic implants and toric implants
  • Other vision correction surgery: Conductive Keratoplasty (CK) and Limbal Relaxing Incisions
• Cataract Eye Surgery (including cataract surgery with lens implants)
• Management of complications of surgery for new patients who had problems from a LASIK or other vision correction procedure or cataract surgery first 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 procedure as well as cataract surgeries performed by Dr. Davison

Professional Credentials

Member of Editorial Board for Review of Refractive Surgery

• Current Faculty Appointments: Clinical Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Utah
• Hospital Staff Appointments: Marshalltown Medical & Surgical Center
  • Board of Directors
• Certified by American Board of Ophthalmology
• Professional Societies and Organizations
  • American Academy of Ophthalmology: Member
  • International Society of Refractive Surgery: Member
  • American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery: Member
  • American College of Eye Surgeons: Member
  • American College of Surgeons: Member
  • American Medical Association (AMA): Member
  • American Society of Contemporary Ophthalmology: Member
  • International Association of Ocular Surgeons: Member
  • International Society of Refractive Keratoplasty: Member
  • Windsor National Associates: Member
  • Iowa Medical Society: Member
• Consulting Positions
  • Alcon
• Past member of the editorial board for the Journal of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (ASCRS)
• Over 140 peer-reviewed scientific journal articles and videos published
• Over 20 text book chapters published
• Over 200 lectures on research topics at major eye meetings throughout
  the world

Additional Career Highlights

• Surgicus Golden Hands Award (presented by the David J. Kelman Research Foundation at Surgicus III, New York City, 1986)

Education

• Undergraduate: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (Bachelor of Arts in Psychology)
• Medical School: Mayo Medical School, Rochester, MN (Medical Doctorate)
• Residency in Ophthalmology at the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, Rochester, MN
  • Chief Resident
• Internship at the Los Angeles County- University of Southern California Medical Center, Los Angeles, California Ophthalmology Internship
• Vitreoretinal Fellowship at the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, Rochester, MN

Surgeon Bio

James A. Davison, M.D., F.A.C.S., received his medical degree from Mayo Clinic Medical School in 1976. He finished his ophthalmology internship at Los Angeles County – University of Southern California in 1977. He completed an ophthalmology residency at Mayo Graduate School of Medicine and was the chief resident in ophthalmology in 1980. Dr. Davison has been with Wolfe Eye Clinic since July 1980. Certified by the National Board of Medical Examiners and the American Board of Ophthalmology, Dr. Davison has written or produced more than 140 scientific articles and videotapes. He has also had over 20 text book chapters published and co-edited textbooks on phacoemulsification and the surgical rehabilitation of vision.

Among his many professional accomplishments, Dr. Davison started the vitrectomy surgery service at Wolfe Eye Clinic and received the first prize for surgical innovation and excellence, the Surgicus Golden Hands Award, from Dr. Charles Kelman at Surgicus III, New York, New York, 1986. He also was a member of the editorial board for the Journal of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery in Fairfax, Virginia, from 1990 to 1995 and was the president of the Mayo Eye Alumni Association in 1996.

Dr. Davison has presented lectures and papers throughout the world at meetings in Canada, France, Monte Carlo, Italy, Japan and Hong Kong. In 1990, he was invited by Dr. Phillipe Crozafon to perform live surgery in Nice, France, and in 1995 by Dr. Lucio Buratto for a video cataract meeting in Milan, Italy.

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Please call (800) 237-5393 or visit Wolf Eye Clinic today for your 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. James Davision and his exceptional staff are looking forward to meeting with you.

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