Yaron S. Rabinowitz, MD, is the leading refractive surgeon
at Laser Eye Associates, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. He is a
board-certified, fellowship-trained ophthalmologist and a world-recognized
expert on cornea and refractive surgery. As Director of Ophthalmology
Research at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Dr. Rabinowitz has played
a major role in development of new technologies to correct for nearsightedness,
astigmatism, and farsightedness.
He has been an FDA investigator for the Alcon LADARwave ("Custom Cornea")
Laser and the VISX laser for hyperopia. He has performed thousands of
refractive surgery procedures and was one of the first surgeons in the
United States to perform the new "down-up" LASIK procedure. He was also
among the first — and has the most experience in the Los Angeles,
Lancaster, and Santa Clarita areas — with
the bladeless "Intralase" technology for creating the flap in the LASIK
procedure, which he believes results in more accurate and safer outcomes.
His laser center has access to four different lasers, so he is able to
choose which one is best suited to your eye. These are 1) the Alcon
LADARvision laser; 2) the VISX laser; 3) the Allegretto wave laser;
and 4) the Intralase Laser.
His focus is to bring his advanced research and technology background
to each patient at the Laser Vision Correction Center, to maximize each
patient's vision through LASIK and other new procedures.
Dr. Rabinowitz, a leading LASIK Los Angeles surgeon, has made breakthrough research findings in the area
of cornea health and the genetic bases for corneal diseases, such as
keratoconus. He developed a software program which is used worldwide
to screen patients for refractive surgery and has been the pioneer
in developing the INTACS procedure using the Intralase laser for
patients with keratoconus. For his accomplishments in this area he
has been invited by the French Eye Society to give a keynote lecture
entitled "Keratoconus: current concepts" (May 2005). He is the only
American to receive such an honor at this meeting.
About the Laser Vision Correction Center at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Dr. Rabinowitz is the Medical Director and chief LASIK surgeon at Laser
Eye Associates at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Every patient is individually
evaluated by Dr. Rabinowitz and his staff to ensure the best LASIK outcomes.
For LASIK surgery, Dr. Rabinowitz uses either the VISX S4 with CustomVue
Software, the Alcon LADARVision system with the LADARWAVE Wavefront software
or the Allegretto wave laser.
The laser system selection is based on the individual patient's eye. The
wavefront systems provide the advanced Custom Wavefront LASIK, which evaluates
each patient's subtle optical corneal factors and creates a unique corneal
map that is programmed into the Excimer laser. The laser can then correct
the corneal curvature in a customized way that maximizes precision. Dr. Rabinowitz
also uses the "blade less" IntraLase procedure, which creates the "corneal flap"
using a laser instead of a blade. This results in a more accurate and safer
procedure. In addition to traditional and wavefront LASIK, Dr. Rabinowitz
offers "Blended vision" for correcting presbyopia ( people over age 40 who
need reading glasses), and INTACS, removable corneal rings to correct for
moderate myopia and patients with keratoconus.
More About Dr. Rabinowitz
Dr. Rabinowitz completed his Residency in Ophthalmology at Pennsylvania
State University Medical Center in Hershey, Pennsylvania. He performed
two Fellowships, one in Cornea and Refractive Surgery at the Doheny Eye
Clinic of the University of Southern California and one in Ocular and
Molecular Genetics at the Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins University.
He is currently a Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology at the Jules Stein
Eye Institute at U.C.L.A. and Director of Ophthalmology Research at
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
Dr. Rabinowitz receives funding for his cornea research from the National
Institutes of Health, National Eye Institute (NEI), which is extremely
competitive. He is one of only a few LASIK surgeons in the world to receive
such research funding from the NEI. He has authored numerous book chapters
and scientific papers, and has been recognized by VISX as being in the
top 5 percent among refractive surgeons in the United States.
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