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Peter Hersh, M.D.
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About Peter Hersh, M.D.A Princeton University graduate, Dr. Hersh received his medical degree from Johns Hopkins. He completed his ophthalmology residency at the Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary, Harvard Medical School, where afterwards he received additional specialized fellowship training in corneal surgery. Dr. Hersh remained on the fulltime faculty at Harvard until 1990. In 1995 he founded the Cornea and Laser Eye Institute, dedicated to clinical care and research in cornea and refractive surgery. Currently, in addition to directing the Cornea and Laser Eye Institute-Hersh Vision Group, he is a Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology and Director of the Cornea and Refractive Surgery Division at UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School, and Visiting Research Collaborator at Princeton University. Dr. Hersh’s interests are devoted exclusively to LASIK, custom LASIK, Intralase, LASEK, PRK, CK, Intacs, Collagen Crosslinking, Keratoconus, and other corneal and refractive surgery procedures. At Princeton, he works with a group investigating laser applications to eye surgery, presbyopia, and corneal biomechanics. He has participated in many multicenter FDA clinical trials of excimer laser and other surgical corrections of nearsightedness, farsightedness, and astigmatism. Most prominently, he was lead author of the clinical study that led to first FDA approval of the excimer laser for the correction of nearsightedness in the United States. He was one of 2 investigators to present the Conductive Keratoplasty procedure to the FDA device panel. Recently, he was elected to the American Ophthalmological Society, the oldest and most prestigious eye surgery association in the country. This November, he was awarded the Senior Honor Award from the American Academy of Ophthalmology, an honor bestowed on fewer than 1% of eye surgeons. Services
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