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Dr. Robert Kershner is an eye
physician and surgeon located in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. He is the
Director of Eye Laser Consulting, Clinical Professor
of Ophthalmology at the John A. Moran Eye Center of the University of Utah
School of Medicine in Salt Lake City, Utah, IK Ho Visiting Professor of
Ophthalmology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Adjunct Professor of Anatomy and Physiology at Palm Beach Community College, twice elected Chief of
the Section of Ophthalmology and nominated for Chief of Staff at Northwest Medical Center, and former Medical
Director of the Pima Medical Institute, in Tucson, Arizona. Dr. Kershner is the
Founder, President, CEO and former Medical/Surgical Director of the Orange
Grove Center for Corrective Eye Surgery and the Eye Laser Center in Tucson,
Arizona, and was the Director and Head of the Anterior Segment Fellowship
Training Program.
Dr. Kershner pursued his
undergraduate studies in Molecular Biology and graduated with distinction from Boston University,
where he was inducted into the Academy of Distinguished Alumni of
the College of Arts and Sciences in May 2002. He received his Masters of Science
in Cell Biology and Biochemistry and Doctor of Medicine degrees with honors at the University of
Vermont College of Medicine. He
completed his Internship in General Surgery, his specialty training in
Ophthalmology at the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center in Tucson and
was chief resident in Ophthalmology at the University of Utah Medical Center in
Salt Lake City.
He is certified by the
American Board of Ophthalmology, subspecialty certified in Cataract and
Refractive Surgery by the American Board of Eye Surgery, served on the Board of
Directors of the American College of Eye Surgeons, is a Fellow of the American
Academy of Ophthalmology, a Fellow of the American and European Societies of
Cataract and Refractive Surgery and a Fellow of the American College of
Surgeons.
Dr.
Kershner has authored more than two hundred scientific articles, contributed to
twenty-seven textbooks and is on the editorial board and a reviewer of numerous
scientific journals. He has been featured in television, radio and print, in USA
Today,
Men’s Health, Ladies Home Journal, and Newsweek, has written for the Boston
Globe Magazine,
was seen on television performing surgery using the first bifocal intraocular lens implant in
1984 and the Implantable Miniature Telescope in 2003, on CNN and on ABC’s Evening
News Tonight with Peter Jennings, and was host of the popular weekly cable
television series “Eye on Health.”
Dr. Kershner has
innovated and developed numerous new medical and surgical devices, surgical
instruments, intraocular lens implants, and microsurgical techniques for
cataract, refractive and glaucoma surgery from concept through design,
prototyping, pilot manufacturing, international clinical trial, regulatory
approval, pre-approval studies (IDE) as well as post approval studies (510k and
PMA), production and technical service. He has participated in numerous FDA
Clinical trials of medical devices and pharmaceuticals from Phase I through
Phase III, and subsequent marketing of approved product.
Dr. Kershner is an invited lecturer to physicians and the ophthalmic
industry throughout the United States and internationally. He has been a
visiting lecturer in Austria, Brazil, France, Italy, Norway, India, Portugal,
England, Canada, Mexico, China, Switzerland, Thailand, Taiwan, Japan, South
Africa, Holland, Australia, Czech Republic and Russia. He is the recipient of the Alcon
Surgical Award for Achievement in Ophthalmology, the Achievement Award of the
American Academy of Ophthalmology and has been honored for his teaching and
surgical skills by the International Association for Training and Research in
Ophthalmic Surgery in Stansstad, Switzerland, by the late Director General and
Professor Svyatoslav N. Fyodorov of the Intersectoral Research and Technology
Complex in Moscow, Russia, the Japanese Society for Cataract Research, the
Japan Intraocular Lens Implant Society, awarded the Gold Medal from the Indian
Intraocular Implant and Refractive Society, the Maharshtra Ophthalmic Society,
the Bombay Ophthalmologist’s Association and was awarded the IK HO Visiting
Professorship of Ophthalmology from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. In 1994, Dr. Kershner received the Republican
Senatorial Medal of Freedom, the highest honor the Republican members of the
United States Senate can bestow on a private citizen. He received a National
Leadership Award given by Dennis Hastert, Speaker of the House, on behalf
of the United States Congress in 2002. Dr. Kershner was under consideration for the position of Surgeon General of the United
States in 2001.
Dr. Kershner is listed in
the 2003-2009 Guides to "America's Top Ophthalmologists" published by
the Consumers' Research Council of America in Washington, D.C. and is featured
in the Highlights of Ophthalmology, Hall of Eminent and Leading Clinicians
and Surgeons, an international program commemorating 50
years of ophthalmologist’s contributions to humanity.
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