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Dan Z. Reinstein is a specialist ophthalmic surgeon in the UK and is a board-certified registered specialist ophthalmologist in the US, Canada and the UK, specialising in the field of refractive surgery (vision correction). He is medical director of the London Vision Clinic and a voluntary faculty member as Professor of Ophthalmology at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons [1] as well as a Visiting Professor at the University of Ulster, UK [2] and Professeur Associé at the Faculty of Medicine, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France.
Professor Dan Z. Reinstein | |
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Born | 26/09/1962 Lima, Peru |
Known for | VHF digital ultrasound; epithelial thickness mapping; keratoconus screening; PRESBYOND Laser Blended Vision; small incision lenticule extraction; thereapeutic refractive surgery; transepithelial phototherapeutic keratectomy |
Spouse(s) | Dr. Med. Vet. Ursula I. Reinstein, MRSVM (née Heczko) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Vision correction surgery, laser refractive surgery, lens based vision correction refractive and cataract surgery, phakic intraocular lens safety and sizing, therapeutic refractive surgery, corneal refractive surgery complication repair, ultrasound bioengineering, jazz tenor and soprano saxophone |
Institutions | London Vision Clinic, London, UK; Biomedical Science Research Institute, Ulster University, Coleraine, UK; Department of Ophthalmology, Columbia University, New York, USA; Faculty of Medicine, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France |
Website | https://www.londonvisionclinic.com/staff/professor-dan-reinstein/ |
Reinstein was educated at Leighton Park School before completing his undergraduate and medical school education at the University of Cambridge. His postgraduate qualifications include M.A.(Cantab), M.B. B.Chir and MD degrees. He undertook extensive post-doctorate fellowship sub-specialty training in refractive surgery, having completed a Research Fellowship in Ophthalmic Epidemiology (UCL Institute of Ophthalmology/Moorfields Eye Hospital.
Reinstein is an ophthalmologist and research scientist in the field of laser eye surgery, therapeutic refractive surgery (corneal complex refractive surgery) and vision correction.
Married to Austrian veterinarian and researcher Ursula Reinstein (née Heczko), they have three children and live in central London. He is medical director of the London Vision Clinic. [3]
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