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
Stephen Glenn Slade is a native Houstonian
and is in private practice in Houston, Texas. He also serves
as national medical director of TLC, the largest LASIK surgery
center group in the world. He attended Tulane University and
the University of Texas Medical School with a final, elective
year spent at Guy's Hospital, London, graduating summa cum
laude. He completed a residency at the LSU Eye Center in New
Orleans and fellowships in corneal surgery at Baylor Medical
College in Houston and in New York, New York on Project ORBIS.
Dr. Slade is a Fellow of the American Academy of Ophthalmology
and the American College of Surgeons. He is an active teacher
of surgical techniques and has taught over 8,000 surgeons
LASIK and lamellar refractive surgery. Dr. Slade's own experience
with lamellar refractive surgery began in 1980 with epikeratophakia,
followed in 1983 with myopic keratomileusis.
In 1991 he performed the first LASIK done in the United States.
He has since done tens of thousands of cases. Of unique note,
Dr. Slade is considered the "surgeon's surgeon."
Over 300 of his fellow eye surgeons have chosen him to for
their own eye surgery. He is an active researcher and the
U.S. medical monitor for several new technologies including
the B&L Technolas Excimer Laser Custom Vision Clinical
Trials. He has received numerous awards including 8 named
lectures, the Refractive Surgeon of the Year award, two China
Service Medals, and the 1997 Lans Lectureship. Dr. Slade has
received the Honor Award of the American Academy and Summit
Technology's Pioneer of Refractive Surgery Award. He is a
regular presenter at medical meetings and has received several
"Best Speaker" awards. He is on several editorial
boards including the Journal of Refractive Surgery. Dr. Slade
has produced many articles, book chapters, three patents in
the field and has authored five textbooks on refractive surgery.
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