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Dr. Raymond Gailitis, F.A.C.S.
Fort Lauderdale LASIK Surgeons
Are you searching for the best Fort Lauderdale LASIK surgeons to address your vision challenges? If you're struggling with nearsightedness, farsightedness, astigmatism, or corneal irregularities, you're not alone.
Many individuals in Fort Lauderdale and throughout Florida seek lasting solutions for clearer vision. While eyeglasses and contact lenses provide temporary relief, LASIK surgery, performed by a skilled ophthalmologist, offers a potential long-term answer. However, finding a truly trusted Fort Lauderdale LASIK surgeon or a top Florida LASIK surgeon can be daunting. That's where Trusted LASIK Surgeons® simplifies the process.
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qualifications are listed below.
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Credentials and Qualifications
Dr. Raymond P. Gailitis has extensive qualifications that we estimate place him among the top LASIK, laser vision surgery, 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. 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 and cataract surgeons include:
One of the first surgeons in the Fort Lauderdale region to perform LASIK
First vision correction 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 25 years experience in laser vision surgery, including LASIK and PRK
Over 25 years experience in refractive surgery (laser vision, lens implants and RK)
Over 25 years experience in cataract surgery (including cataract surgery with lens implants)
Performed over 5,000 LASIK and laser vision procedures
Performed over 5,000 lens implant (IOL) procedures
Performed over 5,000 cataract surgery procedures
Principal Investigator for 1 FDA Study for Alcon, a laser manufacturer, for Custom Cornea treatment in farsighted patients with the LADAR Vision laser system
Certified FDA instructor and mentor for VISX, Inc. (a laser manufacturer)
Trained 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
Refractive and Cataract Surgery Expert Witness:
Over 10 years experience providing expert witness services on behalf of plaintiffs and defendants, including case review and expert testimony for cases involving the following refractive and cataract eye surgery
procedures:
Intraocular lens implant surgery (IOLs) including Refractive Lensectomy (RLE) or Clear Lensectomy (CLE)
using:monofocal lenses, multifocal lenses, and accommodating lenses, as well as phakic implants and toric implants
Corneal Transplants
Other vision correction surgery: Limbal Relaxing Incisions
Cataract Eye Surgery (including cataract surgery with lens implants)
Dr. Gailitis offers small incision, no stitich, no patch cataract surgery
Management of complications of surgery for new patients who had problems from a LASIK or another vision correction procedure or cataract surgery performed by another doctor
Other eye surgeons, optometrists, opticians, employees of companies that specialize in refractive surgery instrumentation or their family members have chosen Dr. Gailitis to perform their LASIK or other refractive procedure or
cataract surgery
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
Dr. 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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