Credentials and Qualifications

Dr. James Salz has extensive qualifications that that we estimate place him among the top LASIK and laser eye surgery and 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. Salz 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. Salz’s qualifications and credentials as one of the top vision correction, LASIK, and cataract surgeons include:

Experience

Additional Career Highlights

• Rated one America’s Top Doctors in the field refractive surgery since 2004
• One of the authors of the book entitled "The Art and Science of Ophthalmology "
  • an authoritative, insider's perspective on the various challenges in this field of medicine and the key qualities necessary to become a successful practitioner
• Co-Chairman:Eye Subcommittee of Los Angeles Olympics Organizing Committee
  (1982-1984)
• Member of Haute MD, an exclusive, invitation-only directory of doctors and surgeons; interviewed for their website and print magazine in the article "Q & A with Dr. Salz", November 2011

Education

• Undergraduate: Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, OH
• Medical School: Duke Medical School, Durham, NC
• Residency: University of Southern California (Doheny Eye Institute), Los Angeles, CA
• Fellowship Training: not applicable since Dr. Salz helped develop the specialty of refractive eye surgery

Surgeon Bio

Dr. James J. Salz received his M.D. from Duke University and completed his ophthalmology residency training at the University of Southern California. He first began researching refractive surgery techniques in 1979 and has performed clinical refractive surgery since 1980. He is one of the few ophthalmic surgeons in the United States to have performed all types of refractive surgery. Dr. Salz was appointed the Principal Investigator for multiple PRK and LASIK FDA Clinical Trials for Visx and Alcon from 1990-2004 for myopia, hyperopia and wavefront guided LASIK at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, CA.

He was the Founding Editor of the Journal of Refractive Surgery. He was the co-editor of the book Refractive Corneal Surgery published in 1986 and is the Editor-in-Chief of the 1994 published textbook Corneal Laser Surgery (which was the first book to cover all aspects of corneal laser surgery). In addition to his published articles, Dr. Salz has over 15 book chapters, the majority dealing with refractive surgery. His most recent publications include articles relating to pupil size in refractive surgery, treating complications of LASIK surgery and a book chapter on the pre-operative examination of refractive surgery patients.

Dr. James Salz has devoted most of his career to research and development of refractive surgery techniques. He was only one of 10 surgeons selected to participate in a National Study of Radial Keratotomy (PERK). Dr. Salz has been actively involved in teaching refractive and cataract surgery techniques to other eye surgeons both in the US and abroad since 1981. He was the 1991 President of the International Society of Refractive Keratoplasty and has been a volunteer surgeon and lecturer on Project Orbis (the "flying eye hospital") in Yugoslavia, India and Cuba. He has been interviewed about eye surgery techniques on the Today Show, on Surgery (ISRS) Barraquer Award honoring his contribution to refractive surgery. In 1997 he received the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) Senior Honor Award and in 2003 received the ISRS/AAO Lifetime Achievement Award for his continued contributions to refractive surgery.

Dr. Salz is a member of the Refractive Surgery Research Laboratory and an attending staff member Cedars Sinai Medical Center.

Dr. Salz also serves on the Board of Directors for the Ophthalmic Mutual Insurance Company (OMIC), Discovery Eye Foundation, and Los Angeles Research Study Club,

Dr. Salz has been honored with the Barraquer Award in 1994 (for contributions to the field of refractive surgery) and Lifetime Achievement Awards from the International Society of Refractive Surgeons and the senior Honor Award from the American Academy of Ophthalmology.

Dr. James Salz, M.D., the President and primary physician of Laser Vision Medical Associates, performs laser vision surgery on patients with nearsightedness (myopia), farsightedness (hyperopia), astigmatism (blurred vision), and presbyopia. Dr. Salz’s practice primarily serves the greater Los Angeles area, including Beverly Hills, West Los Angeles, Hollywood, West Hollywood, and Santa Monica, but patients have come from all over Southern California and even as far as England and South America to be treated by him.

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