Orange County LASIK - LASIK in California

• President and Medical Director:
  Global Laser Vision, San Diego

• Chief Eye Surgeon:
  Laser Eye Center, San Diego

• Clinical Fellowship: Refractive Surgery, Cornea and External Eye Disease, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and the Laser Eye Center of Boston

• Postdoctoral Fellowship: Cornea and External Eye Disease, Harvard Medical School, Schepens Eye Research Institute

• Chief Residency: Ophthalmology Residency Georgetown University Medical Center

• Residency: Ophthalmology Program at Georgetown University Medical Center

• Internship: Internal Medicine at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital

• Medical School: University of Southern California

• Undergraduate: University of California, Berkeley (B.A. in Biochemistry)

Honors and Awards:

• 6/98-6/00: AMA Physician's Recognition Award

• 3/96-6/98: AMA Physician's Recognition Award

• 7/96-7/97: Chief Resident

• 8/91-6/93: Dean's Scholar for Junior/Senior Continuum

• 8/91-6/93: Clerkship Honors

• Ophthalmology Research Fellowship For Academic Achievement

• Baxter Scholarship

• Phi Beta Kappa (Honor Student Society)

• Dean's List

Publications and Editorials:

• F Yaghouti, M Nouri, M.D. W.C. Fung, W.J. Power, M.G. Doane, C.H. Dohlman. Preoperative Prognostic Categories in Keratoprosthesis: Invest Ophthal & Vis Sci 99, 3359-B217, 1999.

• F Yaghouti, DT Azar. A Case of Intralamellar Keratitis Following an Epithelial Defect Five Months after LASIK: ISRS, p86, 1998.

• F Yaghouti, R Pineda. New LASIK Interface Sander and LASIK Corneal Iron: ASCRS, p71, 1999.

• F Yaghouti, JH. Talamo. How Can We Best Measure Quality of Vision after Refractive Surgery? AAO Reshaping the Future, 193-98, 1998.

• F Yaghouti, C.H. Dohlman. Innovations in Keratoprosthesis: Proved and Unproved, International Ophthal Clinics 39: p27-36, 1999.

• F Yaghouti, M Nouri, M.D. W.C. Fung, W.J. Power, M.G. Doane, C.H. Dohlman. Keratoprosthesis: Preoperative Prognostic Categories: Cornea, In Preparation.

• F Yaghouti, M Nouri, G Mannor. Ocular Adnexal Granulocytic Sarcoma as the First Signs of Acute Myelogenous Leukemia Relapse. Am J of Ophthal, vol. 127,p361-3, 1999.

• F Yaghouti, M Nouri, M. G. Doane, D. T. Azar. Analysis of Tear Film Dynamics with Interferometry. Invest Ophthal & Vis Sci, 2444-B301, 1998.

• SA Melki, A Safar, F Yaghouti, P Scharper, M Scharper, B Zeligs, AL Macdowell, MA Goldberg, J Lustbader. Effect of Povidine-Iodine vs. Ofloxacin on Experimental Staphylococcus Keratitis. Invest Ophthal. & Vis Sci PP S424, 1662-B543, 1998.

• F Yaghouti, N Moinfar, J Lustbader. Clinical Predictors of Corneal Ulcer Outcome. Invest Ophthal. & Vis Sci PP S424, 2001-B793, 1997.

• N Moinfar, F Yaghouti, J Lustbader. Outcome of Routine Culturing and Emperic Flouroquinolone Treatment of Suspected Infectious Keratitis. Invest Ophthal. & Vis Sci PP S423, 1997-B790, 1997.

• F Yaghouti, M.P. Dacey, D.A. Frambach. All Leukocytes are Seen as Moving Hyperfluorescent Dots in Video Fluorescein Angiograms Taken with a Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscope. Invest Ophthal. & Vis Sci PP 1391, May 1993.

• F Yaghouti: Phakic Anterior Chamber IOLs Keep Improving; Ophthalmology Times: May 15, 1999, Vol. 24, No. 10, P 1.

• F Yaghouti: The Preferred Technique for Correction of Myopia; Ophthalmology Times: Submitted.

• F Yaghouti: 5000 LASIK procedures: What are the complications?; Ophthalmology Times: Submitted.

• F Yaghouti: No Flap, Just Zap: Intrastromal Tissue Removal Using Ultrafast Infrared Lasers; Ophthalmology Times: Submitted.

• F Yaghouti: How do Eye Tracking Lasers Work and Why do we Need Them; Ophthalmology Times: Submitted.

• F Yaghouti: State of the Art LASIK in the new Millenium: Ophthalmology Times: Submitted.

• F Yaghouti: All Cause Mortality May Add Bias to Survival Studies; Ophthalmology Times: Jan 15, 1998, Vol. 23, No. 2, P 12.

• F Yaghouti: What are You Doing Differently This Year; Ophthalmology Times: Feb 1, 1998, P1.

• F Yaghouti: Comparison of Two Laser Epithelial Removal Techniques for PRK; Ophthalmology Times: Mar 1, 1998; P1.

• F Yaghouti: Survival Rates Similar in Melanoma Options; Ophthalmology Times: March 1, 1998, P1.

• F Yaghouti: Brushing up Now may Help Curb Litigation Issues Later; Ophthalmology Times: March 1, 1998, P36.

• F Yaghouti: PRK Found More Predictable at Lower Levels of Myopia; Ophthalmology Times: April 1, 1998, P55.

• F Yaghouti: Retreatment Shows Good Results After PRK for Myopia; Ophthalmology Times: July 1, 1998, P45.

• F Yaghouti: Laser Epithelial Removal Improves PRK re-treatment; Ophthalmology Times: July 1, 1998, P49.

• F Yaghouti: Videokeratography Helps Explain LASIK Outcome; Ophthalmology Times: August 15, 1998; Vol. 23, P. 27.

• F Yaghouti: Laser Epithelial Removal Improves PRK re-treatment; Ophthalmology Times: August 15, 1998, P53.

• How Can We Best Measure Quality of Vision after Refractive Surgery? AAO Subspecialty Day Meeting, November 1998.

• Keratoprostheses: Preoperative Prognostic Indications: Annual Fellows Lecture Series, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, February 1998.

• Keratoprosthesis: What Have We Learned, Alumni Day, Georgetown University Medical Center, June 1997.

• Factors Associated with Poor Visual Acuity in Patients with Corneal Ulcers, Alumni Day, Georgetown University Medical Center, June 1997.

• Ophthalmic Emergencies for the Emergency Room Physician, Georgetown University Medical Center, July 1997.

• Outcome Analysis of PRK and PTK at Georgetown University Medical Center. Alumni Day, Georgetown University Medical Center, June 1996.

• Ophthalmic Emergencies for the Emergency Room Physician, Cottage Hospital, April 1994.

Other Research Experience:

• Development of an Animal Model to Study Dohlman-Doan's Keratoprosthesis (Protocol #96-11-014, Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary).

• The Role of Steroid in Preventing Melts Following Keratoprosthesis Surgery (Protocol #96-11-014, Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary).

• The Role of Medpore* vs. Cyanoacrylate vs. Paraformaldehyde to Delay Melts after Keratoprosthesis Surgery (Ongoing, Protocol #96-11-014, Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary).

• Use of Alloderm* vs. Porcine Pericardium in Place of Cornea in Keratoprosthesis Surgery (Protocol #96-11-014, Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary).

• Interferometric Analysis of Tear Film in Patients Suffering From Dry Eyes as Compared to Asymptomatic Individuals.

• Comparison of Ketoconazole 2% Cream With Erythromycin Ointment in the Treatment of Blepharitis. (IRB#273-95, Georgetown University).

• Retrospective Analysis of Data from Patients with Diagnosis of Corneal Ulcer at Georgetown University Hospital Medical Center.

• Yaghouti LASIK Globe Fixation Ring I: To Minimize Eye Movements During Lasik Procedure (Design Submitted to ASICO* for Development)

• Yaghouti LASIK Globe Fixation Ring II: To Minimize Eye Movements During Lasik Procedure (Design Submitted to ASICO* for Development)

• Yaghouti LASIK Flap Dryer: To Rapidly Dry the Flap's Gutter Gap, Facilitating the Adherence of the Flap (Design Submitted to ASICO* for Development)

• Yaghouti LASIK Sponge I: To Absorb Meibomian Gland Secretions From Entering The Interface While Using a Fixation Ring to Stabilize the Eye (Design Submitted to ASICO* for Development)

• Yaghouti LASIK Sponge II: To Control Bleeding From Pannus During LASIK Procedure (Design Submitted to ASICO* for Development)

• Yaghouti LASIK Cannula: To Reflect and Reposition the Flap During Lasik Procedure (Design Submitted to ASICO* for Development)

• Yaghouti LASIK Superior Hinge Sponge: To Absorb Meibomian Secretions From Entering the Interface When creating Superior Hinged Flaps (Design Submitted to ASICO* for Development)

• Yaghouti LASIK Enhancement Forceps: For Easy Re-Lifting of Flap Prior to Enhancement (Design Submitted to ASICO* for Development)

• Yaghouti LASIK Interface Polisher: For Removal of Debris and Epithelial Ingrowth Intraop and Postop (made by ASICO*).

• Pineda LASIK Flap Ironing Device to Smoothen Flap Wrinkles Intraop and Postop (made by ASICO*).

• Yaghouti temporary Keratoprosthesis to Rapidly Close the "Open Sky" Wound in the Cases of Expulsive Hemorrhage--Can also be used as a Temporary Keratoprosthesis during Pars Plana Vitrectomy (Under Development).

• Yaghouti capsulotomy Instrument for Precise and Predictable Capsulotomies in Phacoemulsification (Under Development).

• Software to Use Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscope in Visual Field Testing of Young Children and Other Less Than Ideally Motivated Subjects (U.S.C, Department of Ophthalmology, 4/93).

• Remote Suturing Instrument for Surgical Treatment of Congenital Ptosis, (UCLA, Department of Ophthalmic Plastic Surgery, summer 1991).

• Automated Warming Device to Reproducibly Dilate The Hand's Capillaries, Used in Diabetes Research, (U.S.C., Department of Endocrinology, 1992).

• Hyperbaric Oxygen Chamber to Preserve Vital Organs for Lengthy Periods (Patented, University of California, Berkeley and Biotime Inc., Division of Cold Temperature Medicine Research, Berkeley, California, 1988?90).

Certifications:

• American Board of Ophthalmology

• California Board of Medicine (#G085172)

• Massachusetts Board of Medicine (#153462)

• Nidek EC5000 PRK

• VISX PRK, PRKa, and H-PRK

• Summit Technology PRK and PRKa

• Chiron Vision C-LASIK (ASC and Hansatome)

• Microtech Moria Mikrokeratomes (LSK-1 and CB)

Professional Organizations and Societies Membership:

• American Academy of Ophthalmology

• International Society of Refractive Surgery

• American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery

• American College of Eye Surgeons

• Contact Lens Association of Ophthalmologists

• Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology

• International Society of Online Ophthalmologists

• Georgetown Alumni Association

• Massachusetts Eye and Ear Alumni Association

• Schepens Eye Research Alumni Association