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Yale Eye Center surgeon to offer expertise to
Ozarks patients
Aug. 13, 2004
Shachar
Tauber, M.D. joins St. John’s Clinic – Eye Specialists in mid-September,
2004, specializing in LASIK, laser vision correction and corneal and external
disease. He is accepting patients for LASIK, Advanced Surface Ablation, LASIK
with CustomCornea, other laser vision correction procedures, and medical and
surgical treatment of cornea and external disease.
Dr. Tauber brings St John’s Clinic his extensive expertise in the field of
refractive surgery and laser vision correction. He is nationally and
internationally recognized as a laser vision correction surgeon, and for his
comprehensive research and teaching in refractive surgery and corneal and
external disease.
Dr. Tauber comes to St. John’s from the Yale Eye Center, where he was medical
director and one of the first surgeons in the world to be accredited to implant
the AlphaCor artificial cornea to aid vision impaired patients throughout
Southern New England.
The AlphaCor Artificial Cornea is designed to replace a diseased or damaged
cornea or failed human graft. Its dimensions, flexibility and optics allow it to
be implanted, and to perform, in a similar manner to a donor corneal graft.
There are up to ten million people suffering corneal blindness in the world.
Only an estimated 100,000 corneal transplants are performed each year worldwide
due to the lack of access to donor tissue, which has been described as an
international public health crisis. For more than 200 years scientists have
attempted to make an artificial cornea.
Corneal blindness can be caused by accidents or diseases damaging the front of
the eye. When the rest of the eye functions fully, the replacement of the cornea
is all that is needed to restore sight.
Research and clinical trials have shown that this artificial cornea has the
ability to improve sight substantially in patients who are unlikely to have
success from a traditional human donor transplant, or who do not have access to
donor tissue.
Dr. Tauber received his undergraduate degree from Washington University, St.
Louis, MO in 1983. In 1992, he obtained his M.D. from Tulane School of Medicine,
New Orleans, LA. He went on to complete his residency in the Department of
Ophthalmology there.
Dr. Tauber has completed fellowships in Emergency Ophthalmology and Eye Trauma
in Anchorage AK; Advanced Keratorefractive Surgery at St. George Corrective
Vision Center, Chicago, IL: and Refractive Surgery with Enrique Suarez, M.D., in
Caracas, Venezuela. He was also an observational fellow in Cornea and External
Disease at Harvard University’s Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
For the past seven years, Dr. Tauber has been medical director for the Yale-New
Haven Eye Laser Center. He was also an assistant professor of Ophthalmology and
Visual Science at Yale, and the director of Cornea, External Diseases, Contact
Lens and Refractive Surgery. During that time, he was actively involved in
clinical research and teaching related to refractive surgery and cornea. He
continues to serve on the executive board of faculty advisors for Unite for
Sight, a non-profit global humanitarian organization that tackles eye and health
care issues throughout the world
Dr. Tauber has received numerous awards for his excellence as a surgeon, with
special recognition for his cutting-edge research, teaching and publications.
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