Lasik Los Angeles
Board Certified Ophthalmologist
Fellowship “Specialty” Trained in Cornea/Refractive Surgery
Specializes in Premium Cataract Surgery and Refractive Surgery
Fellow of the American Academy of Ophthalmology
Fellow of the American College of Surgeons
Has executed over 12,000 cataract and refractive surgical treatment strategies
Served as Clinical Professor and Director, at UCLA Laser Refractive Center, Stein Eye Institute for 15 years (2003 – 2018)
Performed First SMILE (Small Incision Lenticule Extraction: “Flapless LASIK”) Refractive Surgery system on the West Coast (March 2017)
Performed First Extended Depth of Focus (“Symfony”) Lens Implantation for Cataract Surgery in Los Angeles (August 2016)
A first medical professional at UCLA Stein Eye Institute to utilize Intraoperative Aberrometry (ORA) for Cataract Surgery (2012)
First surgeon at UCLA Stein Eye Institute to perform Laser Cataract Surgery (2010)
First health care provider at UCLA Stein Eye Institute to implant an Accommodative Intraocular Lens (“Crystalens”) for Cataract Surgery (2004)
First health practitioner at UCLA Stein Eye Institute to carry out Custom Wavefront Guided LASIK (2003)
Authored extra than 40 peer-reviewed clinical magazine articles and e-book chapters
Delivered more than 50 displays at countrywide and international medical conferences
Delivered extra than 2 hundred medical lectures within the United States and around the sector
Voted one among 300 Premier Refractive Cataract Surgeons in US, Ocular Surgery News (2016)
Member of Refractive Cataract Surgery Clinical Committee for American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (ASCRS) on account that 2012
D. Rex Hamilton, MD, is thought at some point in the USA and the world over as a pacesetter in laser imaginative and prescient correction and top-rate cataract surgical treatment. As referred to above, he pioneered many new surgical techniques at some point in his 15 years as Professor and Director of the UCLA Laser Refractive Center at the Stein Eye Institute in Los Angeles.
Dr. Hamilton turned into valedictorian of his excessive college class. After graduating Phi Beta Kappa and Summa Cum Laude from Dartmouth College with an undergraduate diploma in physics and arithmetic, Dr. Hamilton earned a Master of Science diploma in biomedical engineering at the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Virginia. After working for numerous years in advertising and marketing and product-making plans for MRI systems at Siemens Medical Systems, Dr. Hamilton determined to pursue a career in medication. He continued his education at the University of California, Irvine, where he earned a Doctor of Medicine degree and acquired several academic awards and scholarships, culminating in his graduating at the top of his class. He started out performing cataracts, corneal transplantation, and refractive surgical procedure in the course of his residency education at the UCLA Stein Eye Institute. Following the crowning glory of his residency, Dr. Hamilton spent an additional 12 months of schooling as a fellow in refractive, cornea, anterior segment, cataract, and glaucoma surgical treatment at Minnesota Eye Consultants under the directorship of Dr. Richard Lindstrom, uniformly identified as one of the founding fathers of current cataract and refractive surgical operation. He then lower back to the Stein Eye Institute, where he became the Medical Director of the UCLA Laser Refractive Center. During his 15 years at the faculty on the Stein Eye Institute, Dr. Hamilton skilled over one hundred residents and fellows from the US and nations at some stage in the world on the art and technology of top-rate cataract and refractive surgical procedures.
With his noticeably technical heritage, Dr. Hamilton is a real doctor-scientist. During his few years engaging in scientific research, Dr. Hamilton has ended up widely recognized within the instructional community for his understanding of the areas of top-rate intraocular lenses (toric, multifocal, and extended depth of attention) for cataract surgical treatment, corneal biomechanics, and corneal imaging. He has authored forty peer-reviewed journal articles and e-book chapters, given more than 50 clinical presentations at countrywide meetings, and has introduced more than hundred and fifty invited lectures throughout the USA and internationally. He has served at the American Academy of Ophthalmology’s Preferred Practice Pattern Committee for Refractive Surgery, a booklet that units the same old to take care of refractive surgical treatment within the United States. He presently serves on the Refractive/Cataract Clinical Subcommittee for the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery. Since 2013, Dr. Hamilton and his colleagues on the Committee have published four articles coaching the finer factors of new and emerging technologies for cataract and refractive surgical treatment.
Dr. Hamilton seems ahead to meeting you, comparing your eye fitness, and discussing a custom-designed remedy plan to be able to offer you the fine danger of assembly your individual visible desires.
Education
Bachelor of Arts: Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, Physics and Mathematics (Double Major)
Master of Science: University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, Biomedical Engineering
Medical Doctorate: The University of California, Irvine College of Medicine
Medical Internship: Huntington Memorial Hospital, Pasadena, California
Ophthalmology Residency: David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Department of Ophthalmology, Stein Eye Institute
Ophthalmology Fellowship: Minnesota Eye Consultants, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Cornea-External Ocular Disease, Refractive Surgery, Glaucoma
Memberships
American Academy of Ophthalmology
American College of Surgeons
American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery
International Society of Refractive Surgery
American-European Congress of Ophthalmic Surgeons
California Medical Association
Dr. Hamilton’s CV
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