Speakers
Bureau
- Brian Boxer Wachler, MD
- Douglas D. Koch, MD
- Stephen S. Lane, MD
- Richard
L. Lindstrom, MD
- Robert
K. Maloney, MD, MA (Oxon)
- Marguerite
B. McDonald, MD, FACS
- Stephen
G. Slade, MD
- Roger F. Steinert, MD-Chair
- Robert Doyle Stulting, MD, PhD
Brian S. Boxer Wachler, MD, is director of the
UCLA Laser Refractive Center and assistant professor in the
Cornea - External Ocular Disease Division of the UCLA Department
of Ophthalmology. In addition, Dr. Boxer Wachler served on
the board of directors for the LASIK Institute - a non-profit
educational organization dedicated to education about the
LASIK procedure for refractive surgery. He has a dedicated
interest in Laser Assisted in-Situ Keratomileusis (LASIK),
and other advanced refractive techniques.
Dr. Boxer Wachler himself has been a LASIK patient and intimately
understands its life-changing benefits. As a result, he is
uniquely prepared to care for patients undergoing refractive
procedures.
Dr. Boxer Wachler is highly trained in the LASIK procedure
and has extensive experience working with the latest techniques.
He is one of only a handful of ophthalmologists who has completed
a formal year-long fellowship specializing in refractive surgery.
Dr. Boxer Wachler routinely teaches ophthalmologists advanced
techniques in LASIK and other refractive procedures. He is
internationally recognized for his leading contributions to
the field.
He has published more than 40 abstracts and papers on LASIK,
PRK and RK in addition to five book chapters. Dr. Boxer Wachler
has made more than 40 presentations at national and international
conferences on the subject of refractive surgery techniques
and outcomes. He has been involved with the United States
FDA clinical trials of four different excimer lasers, and
is one of a limited number of ophthalmologists who participated
in FDA clinical trials to evaluate this new technology for
the correction of low levels of nearsightedness (myopia).
Dr. Boxer Wachler graduated from Dartmouth Medical School
in New Hampshire, and was a his resident in Ophthalmology
at the Saint Louis University Eye Institute. He completed
his fellowship in refractive and corneal surgery form the
University of Kansas Medical Center, and was the Director
of the Refractive Surgery Clinic at the University of Kansas
Medical Center. From fellowship, he was recruited by the UCLA
Department of Ophthalmology at the Jules Stein Eye Institute
to be director of Refractive Surgery, as well as Director
of the UCLA Laser Refractive Center.
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