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| Biographical Details George O. Waring, III is an ophthalmic surgeon with 25 years of experience in vision correction surgery, RK, LASIK, intraocular lens implants and cataract and corneal surgery. He was born in Buffalo, New York. He received his MD degree from Baylor Medical College, Houston, Texas. His ophthalmology training included a residency followed by a Heed Fellowship in corneal disease and surgery at the Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia. He is board certified by the American Board of Ophthalmology and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS) and of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists (FRCOphth, Britain). Dr. Waring began his academic career in 1974 at the University of California, Davis. In 1979 he joined the faculty at Emory University, where he has been a tenured Professor of Ophthalmology and Director of Refractive Surgery, until 2004, when he entered private practice. In his busy consulting practice in anterior ocular segment diseases and surgery he has done approximately 1000 corneal transplants. He was a Founder and Managing Director of the privately owned practice that changed its name to InView in 2004. In his ten years in private practice, he has done more than 20,000 LASIK and other refractive procedures. In 1992, he received a National Institutes of Health Fogarty International Scholars Award to do research in laser corneal surgery at Hotel Dieu Hospital, Paris, France. In 1993-94, he served as Chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology at the El-Maghraby Eye Hospital in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia where he helped develop LASIK. Dr. Waring is a member of approximately 50 ophthalmological societies, American Ophthalmological Society, American Academy of Ophthalmology, International Society of Refractive Surgery, and the International Intraocular Implant Club. He has served on numerous national and international Boards of Directors.His research has included National Institutes of Health grants to study radial keratotomy (as National Director of the PERK Study) and excimer laser corneal surgery. He has received approximately 60 research grants. |
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As the Principal Investigator
of the Emory-sponsored investigations of LASIK, he received the
first physician-sponsored investigational device exemption from
the U.S. FDA. Dr. Waring is Editor-in-Chief (since 1990) of
The Journal of Refractive Surgery,
and has served on 15 other editorial boards, including the
American Journal of Ophthalmology.
He has published over 250 peer reviewed original articles, 60
book chapters, and 250 brief communications. His authoritative
1300 page textbooks, Refractive Keratotomy for Myopia and
Astigmatism, and Corneal Disorders: Diagnosis and Management
(with Howard Leibowitz, MD) are standard references. |