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The Maloney Vision Institute and his director Dr. Robert Maloney continue to lead the practice of lasik surgery. As one of the leading ophthalmologists in the U.S., Dr. Robert Maloney conducs Lasik, Verisyse, Conductive Keratoplasty and VISX procedures. At the helm of the Maloney Vision Institute, Dr. Robert Maloney, was the first surgeon in the West to perform LASIK. Dr. Robert Maloney, Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology at UCLA and a member of the U.S. Department of Defenses Joint Civilian Orientation Conference, has operated on soldiers who have been deployed to the Gulf Region. Dr. Maloney has boosted the vision of soldiers from the Special Ops Division to the National Reserve.
Dr. Robert Maloney is one of the top 10 lasik surgeons, as voted by his peers, and he has performed more than 35,000 laser lasik surgeries and has trained more than 700 surgeons in the use of the excimer laser. Dr. Robert Maloney was also awarded the prestigious Lans Award, for innovative contributions to the field of lasik surgery.
Prior to establishing Maloney Vision Institute, Dr. Maloney was an associate professor of ophthalmology at the UCLA School of Medicine He graduated with an AB in mathematics (summa cum laude) from Harvard University in 1979. Dr. Maloney graduated with a MA in philosophy, politics and economics from The British Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar in 1981 and as obtained his MD degree from the University of California in San Francisco in 1985.
He was an intern at UCLA between the years 1985 and 1986, a resident at the Wilmer Institute at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore from 1986 to 1989 and was a Heed fellow in cornea and refractive surgery at Emory University's Department of Ophthalmology in Atlanta from 1989 to 1991. Dr. Robert Maloney has consulted for Premier Laser Systems in the development of the Erbium-YAG system for corneal refractive surgery, as well as assisting VisionRx.com in the development of advanced miniaturized ophthalmic instruments, and tp Calhoun Vision, Inc. in the development of a light adjustable lens implant.
He has contributed more than one hundred articles, abstracts and reports to professional journals and delivered more than 200 invited lectures on five continents. Dr. Robert Maloney was associate editor of the Journal of Refractive Surgery between the years 1991-95, on the international editorial board of the European Journal of Implant and Refractive Surgery in 1995 and is currently a reviewer for The American Journal of Ophthalmology, Archives of Ophthalmology, The Journal of Refractive Surgery and Ophthalmic Surgery and Lasers.
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Dr. Robert K. Maloney is a former Heed Foundation fellow, a Heed/Knapp fellow, and a John Harvard scholar. He received the Research to Prevent Blindness Career Development Award, and the Mericos Whittier Award for lifetime contributions to Ophthalmology. Dr. Robert Maloney has chaired or served as a member on several committees and subcommittees of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and won the academy's Honor award in 1993. Dr. Maloney also is a member of the International Society of Refractive Surgery, the California Association of Ophthalmology, the Max Fine Corneal Society and Phi Beta Kappa.
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