Dr. Andrew Caster is rated amongst the finest los angeles lasik surgeon. His lasik center is in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles.
Experience:
Dr. Caster has performed more than 14,000 laser vision correction procedures.
First ophthalmologist in the Los Angeles area to dedicate his practice exclusively to refractive surgery.
Trained in radial keratotomy technique with Dr. Svyatoslav Fyodorov, the Russian inventor of radial keratotomy; Moscow, 1987
First American physician to perform thermal keratoplasty (surgery for farsightedness, the forerunner of CK); Moscow, 1987
Author of first academic paper discussing thermal keratoplasty for farsightedness: Caster, AI, The Russian Technique of Hyperopia Correction by Thermal Coagulation: A Preliminary Report, Journal of Refractive Surgery, May, 1988
Developed computer nomogram to improve accuracy of refractive surgery; 1992
Alumni Research Award, UCLA Jules Stein Eye Institute, 1994 for research into improving the accuracy of nearsightedness surgery (Multiple Regression Analysis of 1148 Radial Keratotomy Surgeries)
Dr. Caster graduated college from Harvard University with Phi Beta Kappa honors and then graduated from Harvard Medical School with honors. Dr. Caster performed his ophthalmology residency at the UCLA Jules Stein Eye Institute.Board Certified by the American Board of Ophthalmology, Dr. Caster is a Clinical Instructor in Ophthalmology at the UCLA Jules Stein Eye Institute, and a staff physician at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Dr. Caster is one of only a few surgeons in the Los Angeles area who has been approved as a Certified Refractive Surgeon by the Council for Refractive Surgery Quality Assurance.Dr. Caster was the first ophthalmologist in the Los Angeles area to dedicate his practice exclusively to refractive surgery. He is one of the most experienced and knowledgeable physicians in the United States in this field. Dr. Caster has personally performed over 14,000 procedures to correct nearsightedness, farsightedness, and astigmatism. A large number of our patients travel to us for laser vision correction from across the United States, as well as from Central and South America, Asia, and Europe.In 1999, Dr. Caster was selected by Los Angeles Magazine as the "Best Laser Eye Surgeon in Los Angeles". Dr. Caster has been selected by Visx as one of the "Top 50" laser eye surgeons in the United States for four years in a row. He was selected by W Magazine as one of two top Lasik surgeons in America and was selected by the vote of other physicians as one of the "Best Doctors in America".
Articles featuring Dr. Caster and his work with Lasik laser vision correction have appeared in many publications including Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, and The Los Angeles Times. Dr. Caster recently appeared on the NBC Today show, interviewed by Katie Couric, in which he discussed the newest advances in vision correction. Dr. Caster performed all of the Lasik treatments for the first season of the Fox television show, The Swan. Dr. Caster has also been a featured guest on numerous television programs, including KCBS Channel 2 News (in which he performed laser vision correction on anchorman Kyle Kraska), Hard Copy (in which he performed laser vision correction on actor Lorenzo Lamas), and Fox Sports (in which he performed Lasik on Los Angeles Lakers assistant manager and former player Kurt Rambis).
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