USAEYES - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Chairman of the Quality Standards Advisory Committee
- Principal Investigator for Lasik
Dr. Barrie Soloway is the Principal investigator for Lasik and SRP and Director of the Autonomous Laser Vision Center of Excellence at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary. He is one of the most experienced and successful vision correction doctors in the New York area. He has been performing refractive surgery since 1984 and first used the excimer laser in 1990. He has performed over five thousand Lasik procedures.
As director of the prestigious New York Eye and Ear Infirmary's Autonomous Laser Vision Center of Excellence, and director of microkeratome training in New York for Moria USA he has trained over one hundred doctors from throughout the world in all forms of Vision Correction 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 (nearsighted, shortsighted vision)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, and the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery. He frequently lectures on vision correction to patient and professional groups. His training far exceeds FDA requirements.
Dr. Soloway has also been selected by Visx, the leading excimer laser company as one of the top doctors in the United States in 1998 and 1999. In fact, when doctors, opthalmologists, optometrists, laser technicians and laser center staff have Lasik, they choose Dr. Soloway as their doctor!
Dr. Soloway's success rates are among the highest of all Lasik doctors. 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.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Quality Standards Advisory Committee
- Leader of the Refractive Surgery Team for Hunkeler Eye Centers
Dr. Daniel S. Durrie is the leader of the refractive surgery team for Hunkeler Eye Centers. With over 20 years experience in refractive and corneal surgery, he has been a pioneer in procedures to correct nearsightedness, farsightedness, and astigmatism.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Quality Standards Advisory Committee
- Founder and Executive Director of the Council for Refractive Surgery Quality Assurance
The USA Eyes Quality Standards Advisory Committee (QSAC) was formed to assist the Board of Trustees in the initial development of standards of surgical outcomes required to meet and maintain certification. The committee stands to refine these standards as required by new technology and challenges.
Glenn Hagele is the founder and Executive Director of the Council for Refractive Surgery Quality Assurance (details). As an independent consultant since 1982 with Creative Marketing Design (CMD), Mr. Hagele has participated in several different facets of the healthcare industry. Mr. Hagele was responsible for the start-up of a managed services organization (MSO) in Detroit and a specialist independent practitioner association (IPA) in Sacramento. The Sacramento IPA required the recruitment of over 700 medical and allied healthcare professionals for a statewide vision services provider panel. As Chief Operating Officer of the IPA Mr. Hagele negotiated capitated reimbursement agreements with several of the nation's largest health maintenance organizations (HMO).
From 1993 through 1995 Mr. Hagele was the Director of Provider Contracting for Healthdent of California, Inc. In this position Mr. Hagele was responsible for all allied health provider agreements within a dental HMO. Mr. Hagele recruited the appropriate providers at specific geographic locations and accommodated all regulatory agency concerns. Mr. Hagele completed development an integrated relational database software program to track Healthdent's provider panel needs during his tenure at Healthdent. Mr. Hagele was Project Manager of the team that created an analysis of provider reimbursement and developed a new pricing structure for Healthdent's seven beneficiary plans based upon utilization trends.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Quality Standards Advisory Committee
- Founder and CEO of the LExES ( Laser Excimer Eye Surgery ) Panel of Doctors
Dr. Melton is the founder and CEO of the LExES (Laser Excimer Eye Surgery) Panel of Doctors and the senior partner of Omni Eye and Laser Center, Edmond, Oklahoma. He is the former director of Contact Lens Services at the Dean A. McGee Eye Institute and was the former CEO of Total Ophthalmic Professional Network (TOP Network).
Dr. Melton is licensed in both anterior and refractive laser surgery and was the first optometrist in the United States to purchase his own Excimer laser. Dr. Melton is past president of the Heart of America Contact Lens Society, the Oklahoma Optometric Association, Central Oklahoma Optometric Association. He is member of the American Academy of Optometry and former board member of Contact Lens and Anterior Segment Society and the Contact Lens Section of the American Optometric Association.
Dr. Melton is the co-author of the textbook Rx for Success and is the former editor of both Making Contact and the AOA Practice Enhancement Program. He is a co-founder of the AOA Contact Lens Section, the RGP Institute, and the Contact Lens and Anterior Segment Society.
Dr. Melton is the innovator the NEO-7 Hyperradii Design Oxygen Permeable Contact Lens.
Dr. Melton has lectured at over 100 meetings worldwide and was picked in 1989, 1990, and 1991 as 20/20 Magazine's "Best and Brightest." In 1996, he was chosen a the Heart of America Contact Lens Society's "Optometrist of the Year."
Job Titles:
- Member of the Quality Standards Advisory Committee
- Founder and President of Magnum Marketing
Randy McDonald is a 23-year veteran of the ophthalmic industry with senior level corporate experience in sales, marketing, and operations including financing. His product knowledge base includes ophthalmic, contact and intraocular lenses, as well as capital equipment and refractive surgery.
McDonald is the founder and President of Magnum Marketing, an ophthalmic business development and consultative services company. Magnum Marketing specializes in working with 21st Century technologies developed for refractive surgery and with entrepreneurial ophthalmologists, optometrists and Ph.D.s who have developed innovative products or technology and are in need of a commercial platform for further product development, clinical research, financing and distribution.
Prior to Magnum Marketing, McDonald served as Executive Vice President of D.A.C. Vision (Dallas, TX) the largest U.S. manufacturer of consumable products and supplies for ophthalmic lens fabrication, and also the largest manufacturer of contact lens and intraocular lens manufacturing equipment.
Previous to D.A.C., McDonald was co-founder and the first Operations Officer of Innotech, Inc., now a Johnson & Johnson Company (Roanoke, VA) and the leading producer of In-Office-Lens-Fabrication equipment and supplies. In addition, be helped co-found and served as Vice President Sales and Marketing for Vision Sciences, Inc., (Monrovia, CA) which was the first commercial In-Office-Lens Fabrication Company. McDonald has also held a variety of sales and marketing positions with Bausch & Lomb, Dow Corning Ophthalmics and Hydrocurve Soft Lenses, Inc. (now a part of Wesley Jessen Vision Care). McDonald has published various articles and spoken at a variety of ophthalmic venues. He has a Bachelor of Science degree from Kansas State University.
Job Titles:
- Lasik Surgeon / Behler Eye & Laser Center
- Professional Biography of St Petersburg Florida Lasik Doctor Evaluated and Certified by Nonprofit Lasik Patient Advocacy