Paul Koch, M.D. provides LASIK to New Haven patients and is regarded as a leading LASIK surgeon in New Haven. Dr. Koch is a Founder and the Medical Director of the East Lyme Laser Vision Center, which serves greater New Haven, 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 New Haven patients. In addition to performing LASIK surgery for New Haven patients he is widely recognized in the areas of advanced cataract surgery, near vision presbyopia correcting lens implants such as the ReZoom Lens Implant, ReSTOR Lens Implant and Crystalens Lens Implant to help cataract patients reduce or eliminate their dependence on glasses, bifocals and reading glasses after cataract surgery. Dr. Koch 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 New Haven area patients exceptional LASIK Eye Surgery results to those seeking LASIK in New Haven.
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 Keratomileusis in 1979, Keratophakia in 1980, and Radial Keratotomy in 1983 and has had corneal refractive surgery himself.
East Lyme Laser Vision Center is conveniently located for patients seeking LASIK in Connecticut and especially those seeking LASIK in New Haven, LASIK in Orange, LASIK in Norwich, LASIK in New London, LASIK in Middletown, LASIK in Putnam or LASIK in Willimantic.
