Training and board certification
| Stage | Detail |
|---|---|
| College | Indiana University, Bloomington; Phi Beta Kappa |
| Medical school | Indiana University School of Medicine, with Honors; Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society |
| Residency | Ophthalmology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX; Chief Resident |
| Fellowship | Oculofacial plastic and reconstructive surgery, University of Ottawa Eye Institute, Ontario, Canada |
- Board-certified, fellowship-trained ophthalmologist specializing in ophthalmic plastic and reconstructive surgery.
- Scientific reviewer for the Journal of ASOPRS, Journal of Ophthalmology, EYE (United Kingdom), Graefe's Archive of Clinical Experimental Ophthalmology (Germany), and Cosmetics (USA).
- Past President, Indiana Academy of Ophthalmology and the American Eye Study Club; former Councilor, American Academy of Ophthalmology.
Eyelid surgery work
- Upper blepharoplasty. Removal of skin, muscle and/or fat; functional version restores superior visual field impaired by redundant tissue (source).
- Lower blepharoplasty. Nearly always cosmetic, emphasizing removal/repositioning of lower-eyelid fat "bags" (same page).
- Ptosis repair. An eyelid-crease incision exposes the levator muscle, which is tightened and reattached to the tarsal plate; the patient is sat upright intraoperatively to check symmetry. The page states ptosis surgery is "a more technically challenging operation than blepharoplasty" (source).
- Brow/forehead lift. Three techniques: mid-forehead lift (incisions in forehead furrows, nonabsorbable sutures), pretrichial brow lift (incision just in front of the hairline), and endoscopic forehead lift (incisions behind the hairline, dissolvable implant fixation to the frontal bone, staples removed 10-14 days) (source).
- Entropion surgery. Involutional entropion corrected by a Lateral Tarsal Strip Procedure: a lateral canthal incision reattaches the tarsus to the lateral orbital rim bone (source).
- Ectropion surgery. Involutional/paralytic ectropion corrected the same way (Lateral Tarsal Strip Procedure); cicatricial ectropion may require a full-thickness skin graft (from behind/in front of the ear or above the clavicle) or a myocutaneous flap (source).
Other procedures
Chalazion and stye treatment, enucleation and evisceration, eyelid and facial lesion removal, eyelid/face reconstruction (including Mohs defect repair), tear duct surgery, thyroid eye disease (eyelid retraction repair, orbital decompression), and trauma repair (eyelid, tear duct, facial and orbital/zygoma fractures); cosmetic BOTOX and dermal fillers (Restylane, Refyne, Defyne) (source).
Insurance and cost
The practice site has no statements about insurance coverage or procedure prices.
Recovery
- Back to work. Upper blepharoplasty: 3-4 days average, up to 8-10 days for combined upper/lower blepharoplasty. Ptosis repair: 3-5 days average, up to 10-12 days combined (source, source).
- Swelling/bruising. Gradually improves over 1-3 weeks; makeup can hide residual bruising starting at 2 weeks (blepharoplasty-surgery).
- Final result. Near-complete tissue healing after ptosis surgery by about 4 months (ptosis-repair).
- Sutures out. Mid-forehead/pretrichial brow lift: nonabsorbable sutures removed 5-10 days; endoscopic forehead lift staples removed 10-14 days (eyebrow-forehead-lifting).