Paul Koch, M.D. provides LASIK to Hartford patients and is regarded as a leading LASIK surgeon in Hartford. Dr. Koch is the Founder and the Medical Director of the East Lyme Laser Vision Center, which serves greater Hartford, Connecticut as well as Koch Eye Laser Vision Centers and Koch Eye Associates in Rhode Island & Connecticut. Dr. Koch performs all types of Laser Eye Surgery for Hartford patients. In addition to performing LASIK surgery for Hartford patients he is widely recognized in many other areas of eye surgery including “no stitch, no injection, no patch” cataract surgery, near vision presbyopia correcting multifocal lens implants such as the ReZoom Lens Implant, ReSTOR Lens Implant and Crystalens Lens Implant to help cataract patients become independent of glasses, bifocals and reading glasses after cataract surgery. Dr. Koch has been honored by eye physicians and eye surgeons from around the United States where he has been named one of the Top 100 Ophthalmologists and one of the Top 15 Cataract Surgeons in North America by Ophthalmology Times.
Dr. Koch is one of the most experienced LASIK surgeons in Connecticut having performed many thousands of LASIK procedures for patients from throughout New England. Eye surgery procedures such as LASIK plus Dr. Koch’s experience in LASIK bring Hartford area patients exceptional LASIK Eye Surgery results to those seeking LASIK in Hartford.
LASIK surgery patients, cataract surgery patients and his colleagues in Ophthalmology have awarded him praise by citing him in each issue of the Best Doctors in America, and awarding him the Mericos H. Whittier Foundation's Lifetime Achievement Award, the American Academy of Ophthalmology's Honor Award, the David Kelman Foundation's Golden Hands Award, the Irish-American Ophthalmology Society's Top-Gun Phaco Award, the Hoffer Award and the International Film Festival of the American Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgery Award.
Dr. Koch has authored a number of eye surgery textbooks used throughout the United States and internationally to help teach eye surgeons techniques of cataract surgery, corneal refractive surgery such as LASIK and is editing the first textbook on refractive lens implants such as ReZoom ™, ReSTOR ®, Crystalens ®, Verisyse ™ and Visian Lens Implants as well as written many journal articles, book chapters, and specialty editorials on Cataract Surgery, Lens Replacement Surgery and all types of Laser Eye Surgery including LASIK and Custom LASIK.
Dr. Koch is leader in many aspects of eye surgery innovation. To that end, he has assisted eye surgeons from around the world adopt many advances in cataract surgery, including techniques that permit surgery to be performed comfortably without anesthetic injections, and with vision recovery beginning only a few minutes after the operation is completed. Prior to performing LASIK Eye Surgery, Dr. Koch was one of the first refractive surgeons in America performing early types of corneal refractive surgery such as Keratomileusis in 1979, Keratophakia in 1980, and Radial Keratotomy in 1983. In addition to being one of the first eye surgeons to embrace these procedures, Dr. Koch is also a patient himself having had corneal refractive surgery to correct his vision. His innovations in corneal refractive surgery and LASIK plus expertise in a broad range of refractive surgery techniques make Dr. Koch a true leader.
East Lyme Laser Vision Center is conveniently located for patients seeking LASIK in Connecticut and especially those seeking LASIK in Hartford, LASIK in Waterbury, LASIK in New Britain, LASIK in Glastonbury, LASIK in New London, LASIK in Manchester, LASIK in Torrington or LASIK in Middletown.
