Fort Lauderdale LASIK Eye Surgeon Raymond Gailitis, M.D.

Appointments:

Local: (954) 969-0090
Toll Free: (800) 736-8558

Address:

Ophthalmology Consultants- The Center for LASIK
Northwest Medical Plaza
5800 Colonial Drive, Suite 103
Margate, FL. 33063

Website:

Ophthalmology Consultants- The Center for LASIK

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Credentials and Qualifications

Dr. Raymond P. Gailitis has extensive qualifications that we estimate place him among the top LASIK and refractive surgeons in the United States.

For your convenience, these credentials and criteria have been grouped by Experience, Patient Care and Credentials. In addition, Dr. Gailitis 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. Gailitis's qualifications and credentials as one of the top LASIK surgeons include:

Experience

• One of the first surgeons in the Fort Lauderdale region to perform LASIK
• First surgeon in South Florida to perform the Intacs procedure
• One of the few surgeons in the U.S. currently certified to implant the Intraocular Contact Lens (ICL)
• Over 12 years experience in laser vision surgery, including LASIK
• Over 19 years experience in refractive surgery (laser vision, lens implants and RK)
• Performed over 5,000 LASIK and laser vision procedures
• Principal Investigator for 1 FDA Study for Alcon, a laser manufacturer
• CustomCornea treatment in farsighted patients with the LADARVision laser system
• Certified FDA instructor and mentor for VISX, INC.
• Trained many over 80 refractive eye surgeons in laser vision correction
• Selected by VISX to serve as a mentor to other physicians learning to perform LASIK
• Certified physician instructor for LADARVision

Premier Patient Care

• Use of Ziemer FEMTO LDV for “All-Laser” or “Bladeless” LASIK
• Use of Wavefront Based (“Custom”) LASIK and PRK
• Offers complete refractive surgery care, including LASIK, PRK, RLE / CLE, CK (Conductive Keratoplasty), Phakic Implants, Limbal Relaxing Incisions, and cataract lens implants procedures
• Management of complications of surgery for new patients who had problems from a LASIK or other vision correction procedure 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 surgeries performed by Dr. Gailitis
  

Professional Credentials

• Hospital Staff Appointments
  • Northwest Medical Center, Margate, FL
  • Holy Cross Hospital, Fort Lauderdale
  • Outpatient Surgery Center at Coral Springs, Coral Springs, FL
• Professional Society and Organizations (Membership and Affiliations)
  • American Academy of Ophthalmology, Fellow
  • International Society of Refractive Surgery (Member)
  • American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery Member)
  • National Board of Medical Examiners
  • American College of Surgeons, Fellow
  • Broward County Ophthalmologic Society
• Served as Past President, Vice-President, and Secretary
• Latvian Medical Society
• Latvian-American Eye Association
• South Florida Ophthalmic Self Insurance Trust- Board Member
• Certified by American Board of Ophthalmology
• Consulting Positions (for companies that develop lasers and other ophthalmic products)
  • Alcon
  • VISX
• Reviewer: Journal of Refractive Surgery
• Over 18 peer-reviewed scientific journal articles published
  

Patents and Inventions

Dr. Gailitis has the following inventions in the field of referactive surgery to his credit:

• U.S. Patent No. 5163956- Methods and lenticules for modifying the cornea
• U.S. Patent No. 5196027- A method and system for corneal sculpting to create a multifocal refractive surface on the cornea of the eye
• U.S. Patent No.. 5288436-Methods of fabricating a collagen lenticule precursor for modifying the cornea

  Additional Career Highlights

• Charitable Activities:
  • Volunteer for Project Orbis, the world’ only Flying Eye Hospital that has conducted eye health treatment and training programs in over 75 countries since 1982
  • Several mission trips to LATVIA to teach local ophthalmologists latest techniques in corneal surgery
• Alcon Centurion Surgeon Award (2005) for demonstrating exceptional patient vision outcomes using the Alcon LADARVision CustomCornea System
• Selected by fellow doctors for 2008 and 2009 as a "Florida Super Doctor"”
  

Education

• Undergraduate: B.A. Biochemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
• Graduate School: Warnborough College, Oxford, England
• Medical School: M.D., Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, IL
• Internship: Internal Medicine, Northwestern University Medical Center, Chicago, IL
• Residency in Opthalmology: University of Minnesota Hospitals and Clinics, Department of Ophthalmology, Minneapolis, MN
• Fellowship Training: Fellowship, Cornea and Refractive Surgery, Emory University, Department of Ophthalmology, Atlanta, GA
  

Personal Bio

Raymond P. Gailitis, M.D., F.A.C.S., is a fellowship-trained refractive and corneal transplant surgeon who specializes in laser vision correction. He is co-founder of The Center for LASIK, which is dedicated to state-of-the-art vision correction surgery. Doctor Gailitis is a principle investigator in an FDA study concerning CustomCornea treatment in farsighted patients with the LADARVision laser system. Dr. Gailitis has performed several thousand LASIK procedures and is certified on four different excimer laser systems.

Dr. Gailitis has been featured on the nationally televised program "Ground Floor" performing laser vision correction. He was also interviewed on Channel 4 CBS medical news discussing hyperopic LASIK. He has served as a radio consultant on LASIK for KWRE in St. Louis, KLIC in Minnesota, the Louisiana Radio Network, and WWNN on the Steve Kane show. Dr. Gailitis is the author of numerous articles on lasers and refractive surgery and holds several patents in the field. In 1991 he published one of the seminal articles on a new laser to perform refractive surgery. He is an author of the popular book entitled "LASIK Vision Correction".

After receiving his B.A. from Northwestern University went on to graduate studies at Warnborough College, in Oxford in the U.K. He earned his medical degree at Northwestern University Medical School Residency in Ophthalmology, University of Minnesota School of Medicine and his Fellowship in Refractive Surgery at Emory University. He is a certified FDA instructor and mentor for the VISX laser and a certified physician instructor for the LADARVision laser.

Dr. Gailitis is Board Certified by the American Board of Ophthalmology. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and a member of several professional societies including the International Society of Refractive Surgery, the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, and the Broward County Ophthalmology Society, where he has served as past President, Vice-President, and Secretary. Dr. Gailitis has done charitable work in Eastern Europe and has served as visiting professor on project ORBIS teaching other eye doctors internationally.

He currently resides in Fort Lauderdale with his wife Sonia and children Dane, Marissa and Peter. Dr. Gailitis enjoys excellent vision after his own LASIK procedure.

 

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