Gregg Feinerman

Dr. Gregg Feinerman is a LASIK surgeon with a practice in Newport Beach, California. He is an expert in the field of intraocular lens implants, used to correct cataracts and in refractive lensectomy. ^[1]

Education

Feinerman attended George Washington University School of Medicine graduating in 1994. He completed his ophthalmology residency at the University of California, Irvine in 1998. Then he completed a fellowship at in refractive surgery at Gimbel Eye Center. ^[2]

Career

Feinerman is a proponent of the use of Crystalens, which are manufactured by Bausch & Lomb, and he serves as a clinical consultant for the company. He was the first surgeon in Southern California to perform it after it was FDA approved in October 2003, and has done more Crystalens procedures than any other California doctor.^[3]

Feinerman started Operation In-Sight, which “offers free eye surgeries to individuals who cannot afford vision-correction surgery or public servants for whom excellent vision is requisite,” helping many who cannot wear contacts get vision correction.^[4]

Crystalens and LASIK

Crystalens are implants which improve eyesight by replacing the natural human lens for those people who have cataracts and presbyopia. That means it acts like the normal human lens to improve both near and far vision.

Publications

• Gimbel, HV; van Westenbrugge, JA, Penno, EE, Ferensowicz, M, Feinerman, GA, Chen, R (1999 Aug). "Simultaneous bilateral laser in situ keratomileusis: safety and efficacy.". Ophthalmology 106 (8): 1461-7; discussion 1467-8. ^[5]
• “Refractive Surgery - A Manual of Principles and Practice”^[6]
• “Wavefront Analysis, Aberrometers, & Corneal Topography” ^[7]
• “LASIK & Beyond LASIK - Wavefront Analysis & Customized Ablation” ^[8]
• "Presbyopia: A Surgical Textbook”^[9]

References

1. ^ "Glossary". Vance Thompson Vision. http://www.vancethompsonvision.com/sioux-falls/patient-education/glossary.htm. Retrieved 13 June 2011. 
2. ^ "Biography". Feinerman Vision Center. http://www.feinermanvision.com/orange-county/our-doctors.htm. Retrieved 13 June 2011. 
3. ^ "Biography". Feinerman Vision Center. http://www.feinermanvision.com/orange-county/our-doctors.htm. Retrieved 13 June 2011. 
4. ^ "Eye surgeon gives gift of sight". OC Metro. http://www.ocmetro.com/t-Health_sight_061908.aspx. Retrieved 13 June 2011. 
5. ^ Gimbel, HV; van Westenbrugge, JA, Penno, EE, Ferensowicz, M, Feinerman, GA, Chen, R (1999 Aug). "Simultaneous bilateral laser in situ keratomileusis: safety and efficacy.". Ophthalmology 106 (8): 1461-7; discussion 1467-8. PMID 10442889. 
6. ^ al.], edited by Howard V. Gimbel, Ellen E. Anderson Penno; contributors, Marco Azzolini ... [et (2000). Refractive surgery : a manual of principles and practice. Thorofare, NJ: SLACK Inc. ISBN 1556424434. 
7. ^ Wilson, editor-in-chief, Benjamin F. Boyd ; associate editor-in-chief, Amar Agarwal ; editors, Jorge L. Alio, Ronald R. Krueger, Steven E.; Feinerman, Gregg (2003). Wavefront analysis, aberrometers and corneal topography. El Dorado, Panama: Published for Highlights of Ophthalmology International. ISBN 9962613183. 
8. ^ Agarwal, editor-in-chief, Benjamin F. Boyd ; editors, Sunita Agarwal, Athiya Agarwal, Amar; Feinerman, Gregg (2001). LASIK and beyond LASIK : wavefront analysis and customized ablation. Panama: Highlights of Ophtamology International. ISBN 9962613043. 
9. ^ Agarwal, edited by Amar; Feinerman, Gregg (2002). Presbyopia : a surgical textbook. Thorofare, NJ: Slack. ISBN 1556425775. 

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