Alireza Ghaffarieh, M.D specializes in corneal transplants, refractive surgery, cataract surgery, and external eye diseases with a primary interest in Refractive and Premium cataract surgery.
Ghaffarieh comes after serving as an advanced clinical cornea and refractive surgery fellow at Massachusetts Eye and Ear, home to the world’s largest vision research center and a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School in Boston. He also served as an assistant professor of Ophthalmology at the Jones Eye Institute, Little Rock, Arkansas and director of cornea and refractive surgery at private eye centers in Texas and California.
Ghaffarieh graduated in the top 1% of his class from Shiraz University and earned his medical degree in 1996. After completing his ophthalmology residency in 2002, Ghaffarieh received additional training in keratoprosthetic surgery at Fyodorov Eye Institute and visual rehabilitation at Krasnov Center, both located in Moscow.
Additionally, he completed multiple fellowships in neuro-ophthalmology and ocular pathology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, anatomical pathology at the University of Indiana and cytopathology at the University of Southern California.
Along with 27 years of medical experience, Ghaffarieh has multiple affiliations as a researcher and scientist working in various biomechanical and biomedical engineering departments and institutes.
He has authored more than 40 journal articles and three book chapters, in addition to serving on the editorial board and as a reviewer for several ophthalmology journals. He is an inventor and holds one full and six provisional U.S. patents.
Dr. Ghaffarieh is fluent in English, Persian, Turkish, Azerbaijani, Arabic and basic Spanish.