DR. MACKOOL - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Assistant Director of the Mackool Eye Institute

Dr. RJ Mackool is the Assistant Director of the Mackool Eye Institute and Laser Center. He not only has extensive experience in cataract, implant, glaucoma, and corneal surgery, but he has also completed training in general surgery, plastic surgery, and craniofacial surgery prior to ophthalmology training at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai. He was one of the first surgeons in the world to perform femtosecond laser-assisted cataract surgery; recognized as an international expert on this subject, he has demonstrated the technique to thousands of eye surgeons via satellite. Dr. Mackool has designed microsurgical instruments and reported new techniques that are currently used for modern cataract surgery and intraocular lens implantation, and he has several medical patents pending for devices that improve the accuracy and safety of these procedures. He has performed thousands of cataract, glaucoma, and corneal surgical procedures. Dr. RJ Mackool has repeatedly been named as an outstanding doctor in the New York metro area by Superdoctors.com. He is an attending surgeon at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai and NYU Medical Center, as well as a board-certified member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery.

Job Titles:

• Founder and Director of the Mackool Eye Institute

Richard J. Mackool, M.D. is the founder and Director of The Mackool Eye Institute and Laser Center in Queens, which was the first eye care center in New York to provide eye surgery and laser treatment without the need for hospitalization. He is an internationally recognized expert on microsurgery of the eye and has maintained his practice in ophthalmology since 1973. He is a professor of ophthalmic surgery at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary and NYU Medical Center. An inventor of computerized microsurgical instruments and techniques for cataract removal, nearsightedness, and astigmatism, Dr. Mackool has published many scientific papers and textbooks and has been granted more than 50 patents. He has lectured throughout the United States and abroad, and eye surgeons from every continent have traveled to New York to attend courses conducted by Dr. Mackool. Dr. Mackool has performed more than 70,000 microsurgical procedures, specializing in lens implants, small incision, nostitch cataract surgery, laser vision correction, corneal transplants, and vitreous microsurgery. Dr. Mackool has been repeatedly named in New York Magazine's "Best Doctors in NY", American Health Magazine's "Best Doctors in the U.S.", and also by Ophthalmology Times as one of the 10 best ophthalmic surgeons in the U.S.