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Dr. Gary Kawesch is a leading expert in the field, and
has performed over 40,000 refractive procedures. He is the
Laser Vision Correction specialist for professional athletes
throughout the Bay Area.
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PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
Dr. Kawesch is licensed to practice medicine in
the state of California. He is a member of the American
Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO), the American Society of Cataract and
Refractive Surgery (ASCRS), and the International Society of Refractive
Surgery (ISRS).
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SPECIALTY CERTIFICATION
04/95: Board Certified, American Board of Ophthalmology
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PRACTICE EXPERIENCE
07/92 - Present: Owner, Medical Director, and surgical
ophthalmologist at the Laser Eye Center of Silicon Valley,
San Jose, California, and the Laser Eye Center of the East
Bay, Pleasanton, California.
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PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
- Performed over 40,000 refractive surgical procedures over
the last 14 years
- Expert in the field of vision correction surgery
- Board certified ophthalmologist
- Laser vision correction surgeon for the Oakland Raiders
- Laser vision correction surgeon for the San Jose Sharks
- Author of numerous scientific articles in the field of ophthalmology
- Teacher of latest techniques in refractive surgery to local
eye surgeons
- Frequent source of information for local media (TV, radio,
newspaper)
- Expert witness for medico-legal issues in ophthalmology
- Chair, NORCAP Review and Advisory Committee (review malpractice
insurance issues for major insurance company)
- Textbook reviewer, EyeWorld magazine
- Voted one of San Jose’s Top Doctors by San Jose Magazine
- Inventor and US Patent holder of a new device and method for
measuring an individual’s vision
- Textbook reviewer for Eyeworld magazine
- Online consultation expert in refractive surgery for Ocular
Surgery News
- Reviewer of manuscripts for Journal of Refractive and Corneal
Surgery
- LASIK investigator for FDA clinical studies using the VisX
Star laser
- LASIK investigator for FDA clinical studies using
the Nidek EC5000 laser
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IN
THE NEWS
12/96: LASIK
Tips for the beginning surgeon
EyeWorld, December 1996, p. 58
1/97: Informed Consent for refractive surgery
EyeWorld, January 1997, p. 34
4/97 LASIK: Results from 100 cases
EyeWorld, April 1997, pp. 58-59
1/98 Therapeutic
LASIK: a case report
EyeWorld, January 1998, p. 34
2/98 Bandage
Contact Lenses and PRK - Special Techniques
EyeWorld, February 1998, p. 33
3/98 Epithelial
Removal During Hyperopic PRK - Special Techniques
EyeWorld, March 1998
2/99 LASIK - Roundtable Discussion with the Experts
Review of Ophthalmology, in press
4/00 LASIK for High
Myopia with the VisX Star laser
Ophthalmology, April 2000, pp. 653-661.
2/03: Digital Infrared
Photo Pupillometry-A new Technique for Measuring Scotopic Pupil
Size
EyeWorld, Februay 2003
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FORMAL TRAINING IN REFRACTIVE SURGERY
7/92: Chiron's Radial Keratotomy Course,
San Francisco
Faculty: J. Charles Casebeer, MD
8/93:
Storz's Advanced Radial Keratotomy Course, St. Louis
Faculty: Miles Friedlander, MD
9/93:
Chiron's Automated Lamellar Keratoplasty Course, San Francisco
Faculty: Stephen Slade, MD, J. Charles Casebeer, MD
6/94: Chiron's Automated Lamellar
Keratoplasty Mini-Fellowship, Houston, TX
Faculty: Stephen Slade, MD
7/94:
Chiron's Automated Lamellar Keratoplasty Second International User
Group Meeting, Chicago, IL
Faculty: Stephen Slade, MD, Richard Lindstrom, MD, Charles Casebeer,
MD
7/94: Chiron's Advanced
Refractive Surgery Course, Chicago, IL
Faculty: Richard Lindstrom, MD
11/95:
UCLA's Excimer Laser Didactic Course, Los Angeles, CA
Faculty: Robert Maloney, MD
11/95:
Summit Excimer Laser Wet Lab, Vision Surgery and Laser Center, La
Jolla, CA
Faculty: Michael Gordon, MD
6/96:
VisX Excimer Laser Didactic Course, San Jose, CA
Faculty: Steve Trokel, MD
6/96:
VisX Excimer Laser Wet Lab, San Jose, CA
Faculty: Steve Trokel, MD
2/02:
Alcon LADARVison 4000 Didactic & Wet Lab, San Jose, CA
2/03: Alcon LADARWave Custom
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MEETINGS, LECTURES &
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
4/03: Annual Meeting of the American
Society of Cataract and Refractive
Surgery, San Francisco, CA
2/03: 4th International Congress
of Wavefront Sensing and Aberration-Free
Refractive Correction, San Francisco, CA
10/02: Annual Meeting of the American
Academy of Ophthalmology, Orlando, FL
4/02: Annual Meeting of the American
Society of Cataract and Refractive
Surgery, Philadelphia, PA
10/01: Annual Meeting of the American
Academy of Ophthalmology, New Orleans, LA
10/01: Delivered Lecture: Refractive
Surgery in the Year 2001 - What Primary Care Physicians
Need to Know, Laser Eye Center of Silicon Valley, San Jose.
10/01: Delivered Lecture: Refractive
Surgery Comanagement in the Year 2001. Continuing
education course for optometrists, Laser Eye Center of Silicon
Valley, San Jose
9/01: Keynote Lecture: Refractive
Surgery in the Year 2001. San Jose Kiwanis Club
Meeting, San Jose CA
8/01: Delivered Lecture: Refractive
Surgery Comanagement in the Year 2001. Continuing
education course for optometrists, Laser Eye Center of Silicon
Valley, San Jose
10/2000: Annual Meeting of the
American Academy of Ophthalmology, Dallas, TX
10/99 Annual Meeting of the American
Academy of Ophthalmology, Orlando, FL
11/98: Delivered Lecture: LASIK
for High Myopia using the Visx Star Laser. Annual
Meeting of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, New Orleans,
LA
10/98: Named CRS Clinical Investigator
for FDA clinical trials treating myopia and astigmatism using
the Nidek EC-5000 excimer laser, with the LASIK procedure
4/98: Delivered Lecture: LASIK
for High Myopia and Astigmatism. American Society
of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, Annual Meeting, San Diego
1/98: Delivered Lecture: Refractive
Surgery Comanagement 1998. Continuing Education
course for optometrists, Laser Eye Center of Silicon Valley, San
Jose
10/97: Annual Meeting of the American
Academy of Ophthalmology, San Francisco, CA
10/97: Annual Meeting of the International
Society of Refractive Surgery, San Francisco,
CA
10/97: Granted Investigational
IDE by the FDA for clinical trials for treating
hyperopia with the excimer laser, using the LASIK procedure
8/97: Granted Investigational IDE
by the FDA for clinical trials for treating hyperopia
with the excimer laser, using the PRK procedure
7/97: Delivered Lecture: Refractive
Surgery Comanagement. Continuing Education course
for optometrists, Laser Eye Center of Silicon Valley, San Jose
11/96: Named Investigator for the
International CRS - LASIK clinical trials for
low myopia
10/96: Annual Meeting of the American
Academy of Ophthalmology, Chicago
10/96: Annual Meeting of the International
Society of Refractive Surgery, Chicago
5/96: Delivered Lecture: Refractive
Surgery in the 1990s. Continuing Education Course
for optometrists, Laser Eye Center of the Silicon Valley, San
Jose
10/95: Annual Meeting of the American
Academy of Ophthalmology, Atlanta
10/95: Subspecialty Day 1995. Refractive
Surgery 1995: Reshaping the Future, American Academy of Ophthalmology,
Atlanta
10/95: Laser Skin Resurfacing Course
using the Coherent Ultrapulse Laser, Atlanta.
Faculty: Norman Schorr, MD
10/95: Annual Meeting of the International
Society of Refractive Surgery, Atlanta
4/95: Annual Meeting of the American
Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, San
Diego
1/95: Tufts University School of
Medicine Hawaii '96 Meeting, Wailea, Hawaii
10/93: Annual Meeting of the American
Academy of Ophthalmology, Chicago
10/93: American Society of Cataract
and Refractive Surgery Pre-Academy of Ophthalmology meeting,
Chicago
10/92: Annual Meeting of the American
Academy of Ophthalmology, Dallas
10/92: American Society of Cataract
and Refractive Surgery Pre-Academy of Ophthalmology
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RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
1997-1998: Principal Investigator,
private FDA IDE study. “Application of the
VISX Excimer Laser System to Perform PRK for the Correction of
Hyperopia.” Study Sponsor: W. Andrew Maxwell, MD Ph.D
1997-1999: Sub-investigator,
CRS-USA, Inc. FDA IDE study. “Treatment
of Hyperopia and Hyperopic Astigmatism with the Nidek EC-5000
Excimer Laser.” Study Sponsor: CRS USA, Inc.
1997-1998: Principal
Investigator, private FDA IDE study. “Photorefractive
Keratectomy (PRK) and Laser Assisted In-Situ Keratomileusis (LASIK)
Treatment for the Correction of Hyperopia (+1.00 to +4.00 D) with
astigmatism <1.00 D in subjects who have not had prior refractive
surgery.” Study Sponsor: Gary M. Kawesch, MD.
1997-1998: Principal
Investigator, private FDA IDE study. “Photorefractive
Keratectomy (PRK) and Laser Assisted In-Situ Keratomileusis (LASIK)
Treatment for the Correction of Hyperopia (+0.25 to +6.00 D) with
astigmatism <5.00 D in subjects who have had prior refractive
surgery.” Study Sponsor: Gary M. Kawesch, MD
1991 - 1992: Jules
Stein Eye Institute, University of California Los Angeles School
of Medicine. Working with Robert Maloney, MD,
in the Department of Corneal and Refractive Surgery. Together
we analyzed topographic changes following excimer laser photorefractive
keratectomy in 50 patients treated in Berlin by Theo Seiler, MD.
1990 - 1992: Jules
Stein Eye Institute, University of California Los Angeles School
of Medicine. Worked with Robert Goldberg, MD,
in the Department of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.
Project involved modeling socket contraction in rabbits; ultimate
goal is to pharmacologically modulate contraction.
Summer 1986: Jules
Stein Eye Institute, University of California Los Angeles School
of Medicine. Worked as a researcher under the
direction of Robert Yee, MD, studying vertical opto-kinetic nystagmus
in normal human subjects.
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PATENTS
January 1997
- Granted US Patent, “Device and Method for Measuring Visual
Acuity”
March 2003 -
Patent Pending, “Device and Method for Improving Registration
During Wavefront Laser Vision Correction”
March 2003
- Patent Pending, “Device and Method for Creating Wavefront-Error
Correcting Contact Lenses”
March 2003 -
Patent Pending, “Modifications and Methods for Improving
Performance of Corneal Inlays”
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