Dr. Bley is the founder and surgical
director of the New York Lasik Center and Laser and
Microsurgery Institute. For more than ten years he has
been at the head of a team of top surgeons and ophthalmologists
delivering stellar outcomes in refractive and functional
surgery.
Dr. Bley is certified in all state-of-the-art
refractive lasers including Visx excimer laser and LADARVision
laser. He performes all types of refractive surgeries
such as Lasik, Lasek, Epi-Lasik, and PRK, and is at
the forefront of alternatives to laser refractive surgery.
Dr. Bley is among the few surgeons
certified to implant all of the refractive intraocular
lenses such as Alcon Restor, Alcon Toric, AMO Rezoom,
and Crystalens. He has been among the first to implant
the Crystalens and has conducted the early studies in
this developing technology.
Dr. Bley’s spectacular results
in the refractive surgery field has deserved him wide
recognition among the patients and his peers. He has
been honorably selected among the best surgeons of the
New York Area for the year 2011.
Dr. Bley has published and lectured
extensively on vision correction surgery. His work has
been presented at conferences and meetings with many
groups such as The International Society of Refractive
Surgeons, American College of Eye Surgeons, American
Academy of Ophthalmology, and the American Society of
Cataract and Refractive Surgery. He has been an instructor
of Laser corrective and cataract surgery to his peers
and residents. Dr. Bley has been selected as a speaker
and presenter by the AMO and ALCON teaching the new
advances in the field of refractive surgery to ophthalmologists
and optometrists.
Dr. Bley is board certified by
the American Academy of Ophthalmology and is a Fellow
in the American College of Surgeons. Dr. Bley is also
a member of many refractive societies and is actively
involved in developing the new advances in the field.
Dr. Bley performs more than 1000
cataract surgeries a year and more than 900 laser refractive
procedures a year. His successes are among the top in
his specialty. His patients routinely include physicians
and their families (see testimonials). Dr. Bley’s
reputation and skills are well known around the world
and many patients travel from different countries to
get surgery in his experienced hands.
Dr. Bley in among the few physicians
specializing in handling the most complicated cataract
surgeries, including cases with pseudoexfoliation, secondary
intraocular lens implantation, etc. Other surgeons routinely
refer their difficult cases to his expert care.
Dr. Bley graduated Magna Cum Laude
and Phi Beta Kappa from New York University. He received
his doctorate of medicine from New York University School
of Medicine, graduating with highest honors at the top
of his class.
Dr. Bley's postgraduate training
included an ophthalmology residency at Manhattan Eye
Ear and Throat Hospital and a prestigious oculoplastics
fellowship at the New York University and Bellevue Hospitals.
He performs all types of cosmetic and functional oculoplastic
surgery.
DR. Barrie Soloway, M.D.
F.A.C.S. is one of the most experienced and most
successful LASIK surgeons in the world. He has
performed thousands of vision correction surgery
procedures such as LASIK SRP, ICLs and INtacs.
At the world renowned New
York Eye and Ear Infirmary, Dr. Barrie Soloway
is the Director of Vision Correction, Principal
Investigator for LASIK and Director of the Alcon
LADARVision Center of Education in LASIK. He is
one of the most experienced and successful vision
correction surgeons in the world. He has been
performing refractive surgery since 1984 and first
used the excimer laser in 1990. He has performed
thousands of LASIK surgeries since that time.
As the Director of Vision
Correction at the prestigious New York Eye and
Ear Infirmary, he heads up the Autonomous LADARVision
Center of Excellence, and microkeratome training
for Moria USA. He has trained hundreds of surgeons
from throughout the world in all forms of Vision
Correction Surgery and the LASIK procedure.
Dr. Soloway received extensive
training in excimer laser and LASIK Vision Correction
in the United States during the clinical trials
for myopia and in Canada where the procedure was
first approved. He is the principal investigator
for hyperopic LASIK and SRP (surgical reversal
of presbyopia) FDA monitored clinical trials as
well as studies to re-calibrate glaucoma imaging
studies for patients after LASIK, and dry eye
studies on LASIK patients at the New York Eye
and Ear Infirmary's Vision Correction Center.
Dr. Soloway has published and lectured extensively
on vision correction surgery with many groups
such as The International Society of Refractive
Surgeons, American College of Eye Surgeons, Canadian
Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, the
India Council of Ophthalmic Surgery and the American
Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery. He
frequently lectures on vision correction to patient
and professional groups.
Dr. Soloway is a board member
of the Council on Refractive Surgery Quality Assurance's
certification committee, where national standards
for qualifying refractive surgeons were set up.
His training far exceeds FDA requirements.
Dr. Soloway has been selected
by Visx, the leading excimer laser company as
one of their Star Surgeons, their top honor for
their best surgeons in the United States in 1998
and again in 1999. Summit Technology has admitted
him to the Summit Autonomous Society for their
best surgeons in 1999. In fact, when doctors,
opthalmologists, optometrists, laser technicians
and laser center staff have LASIK, they choose
Dr. Soloway as their surgeon! In 1999 Dr. Soloway
was chosen to perform LASIK surgery on the son
of the CEO of Summit Technology, the manufacturers
of the Autonomous LADARVision excimer laser system.
Dr. Soloway's success rates
are among the highest of all LASIK surgeons. He
is regularly listed as one of the "Best Doctors
in New York" in Book and Magazine polls of
doctors and patients.
Dr. Soloway received his
bachelor's degree with honors from New York University
and his Doctorate of Medicine from Pennsylvania
State University Medical School. He served an
internship in medicine at the Long Island College
Hospital and completed his ophthalmology residency
at The New York Eye and Ear Infirmary. He spent
an additional year of training there in the surgical
repair of ocular trauma.
He has been in private practice
in New York helping people see better without
glasses since 1986.
Dr. Movshovich completed
his internship in internal medicine at New York
Downtown Hospital and he did a residency in ophthalmology
at Cornell University Medical College. Dr. Movshovich
also did a retinal fellowship at Cornell University
Medical College.
Dr. Movshovich, in 1981,
was the recipient of the Laureate of the Young
Moscow Scientists Association Award. This award
is given for the best research project for scientists
under 35 years of age.
Dr. Moshovich was also the
recipient of the prestigious Komsomol prize, the
highest prize given in Russia for the best scientific
research work in 1983.
Dr. Movshovich has been published
in Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
and The Association for Research in Vision and
Ophthalmology.
Dr. Movshovich is currently
an Associate Professor at Cornell's Weil School
of Medicine.
