Kevin L. Waltz

Education

Dr.Waltz is one of the only a handful of doctors in the US who is both an optometrist and ophthalmologist and has advanced fellowship training in both specialties. He graduated from the Indiana University School of Optometry in 1981, and he completed a two year fellowship at the Southern College School of Optometry in 1983. Dr.Waltz received his medical degree from the Meharry Medical College in 1987 and then completed an internship at Vanderbilt University in 1988. He served a three year residency in ophthalmology at the University of Florida in Gainesville, FL which he completed in 1991. He was selected for a prestigious fellowship in Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery under Dr. Frank Nesi atWayne State University. This allowed Dr.Waltz to receive extra training in surgery of the eyelids, orbits, and tear ducts.

Memberships/ Accomplishments

Dr. Kevin Waltz has over a decade of experience with Laser Vision Correction having performed approximately 20,000 procedures. He first treated patients with the original VISX 20/20 laser in March of 1995 in Spain and treated his first Photorefractive Keratectomy (PRK) patients in the US in December of 1995. He performed LASIK in the US in September of 1996. He has extensive experience with different laser platforms, currently utilizing the VISX S4 IR. He performs LASIK, PRK, Custom LASIK, and Custom PRK. He is certified to use the Intralase laser to create bladeless flaps for LASIK. In addition to laser vision procedures, Dr.Waltz corrects vision utilizing Phakic IOLs and Multifocal IOLs. He is a paid industry consultant to Advanced Medical Optics, the company which manufactures the VISX laser. Dr.Waltz is very confident in the results that Laser Vision Correction achieves for patients. He has performed LASIK and PRK on several of his partners, hundreds of eye doctors and their staffmembers. DrWaltz had Photorefractive Keratectomy(PRK) performed by his partner, Dr. Anthony Lombardo and his wife, Rhonda FoxWaltz, had LASIK performed on both eyes in February of 1996. Dr.Waltz is board-certified by the American Board of Ophthalmology. He is recertified every 10 years, most recently in 2005. Over the last decade, DrWaltz has dedicated his time to developing his Laser Vision Correction techniques by attending and teaching at training courses in the US, Canada, and Europe.

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