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Brian S. Boxer Wachler, MD

Brian S. Boxer Wachler, MD, is director of the UCLA Laser Refractive Center and assistant professor in the Cornea - External Ocular Disease Division of the UCLA Department of Ophthalmology. In addition, Dr. Boxer Wachler served on the board of directors for the LASIK Institute - a non-profit educational organization dedicated to education about the LASIK procedure for refractive surgery. He has a dedicated interest in Laser Assisted in-Situ Keratomileusis (LASIK), and other advanced refractive techniques.
Dr. Boxer Wachler himself has been a LASIK patient and intimately understands its life-changing benefits. As a result, he is uniquely prepared to care for patients undergoing refractive procedures.
Dr. Boxer Wachler is highly trained in the LASIK procedure and has extensive experience working with the latest techniques. He is one of only a handful of ophthalmologists who has completed a formal year-long fellowship specializing in refractive surgery. Dr. Boxer Wachler routinely teaches ophthalmologists advanced techniques in LASIK and other refractive procedures. He is internationally recognized for his leading contributions to the field.
He has published more than 40 abstracts and papers on LASIK, PRK and RK in addition to five book chapters. Dr. Boxer Wachler has made more than 40 presentations at national and international conferences on the subject of refractive surgery techniques and outcomes. He has been involved with the United States FDA clinical trials of four different excimer lasers, and is one of a limited number of ophthalmologists who participated in FDA clinical trials to evaluate this new technology for the correction of low levels of nearsightedness (myopia). Dr. Boxer Wachler graduated from Dartmouth Medical School in New Hampshire, and was a his resident in Ophthalmology at the Saint Louis University Eye Institute. He completed his fellowship in refractive and corneal surgery form the University of Kansas Medical Center, and was the Director of the Refractive Surgery Clinic at the University of Kansas Medical Center. From fellowship, he was recruited by the UCLA Department of Ophthalmology at the Jules Stein Eye Institute to be director of Refractive Surgery, as well as Director of the UCLA Laser Refractive Center.

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