Dr.
Alan M. Kozarsky MD
Board Certified
Dr. Kozarsky is one of the leading corneal, cataract, and vision correction specialists
in the country, and was selected by Atlanta Magazine as the best ophthalmologist
in Atlanta. He was also voted by his peers to be listed in the Best Doctors
in America. He is head of the cornea division at Eye Consultants of Atlanta,
Inc., a large multispecialty ophthalmology practice in Atlanta, GA, where
he specializes in corneal transplants, anterior segment diseases, cataract
surgery and refractive surgery.
He has performed refractive, corneal transplant, and cataract surgery
for over twenty-five years, and was selected to be the Medical Monitor
for the Summit Omnimed LASIK clinical trial study. Dr. Kozarsky is now
the Medical Director for Piedmont Better Vision, a cooperative venture
refractive practice between Piedmont Hospital and physicians from Eye
Consultants of Atlanta.
Dr. Kozarsky received his MD degree from Albert Einstein University in 1978, and went on to complete his ophthalmology residency at Albert Einstein University in 1982. He completed a clinical fellowship in cornea and anterior segment surgery at the Emory University School of Medicine in 1984, prior to joining the Emory Faculty as the Director of Residency Training and Postgraduate Education. In 1987 he joined Eye Consultants of Atlanta, Inc. where he has developed one of the largest private cornea practices in the country. He was appointed Clinical Associate Professor by the Emory University School of Medicine.
In addition to his private practice, he is currently Medical Director of the Georgia Eye Bank, where he also serves as a member of the Board of Directors. He flies every year to Honduras for missionary work where he performs up to 200 eye surgeries on indigent Hondurans.
Dr. Kozarsky has published over 30 articles and lectured throughout the United States and Latin America, and is currently a reviewer for many ophthalmology journals.
Dr. Kozarsky has a special interest in aviation and its interface with vision correction procedures. Accordingly, he enjoys seeing pilots in consultation and has performed many laser vision correction and implant procedures on private, professional and military aviators.
He is an avid multiengine/instrument pilot. In fact, flying is probably his greatest love next to his wife Julie and his three children, Caroline, Eliot, and Aaron.
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Dr.
William B. Lee MD
Board Certified
W. Barry Lee, M.D., joins Piedmont Better Vision with distinguished fellowship-training
in Corneal & Refractive Surgery. Dr. Lee routinely performs refractive
surgery with Piedmont Better Vision and cataract and corneal transplant
surgery at Eye Consultants of Atlanta, P.C.
A native of Elizabethtown, Kentucky, Dr. Lee spent his childhood and early
adult life in and around Lexington, Kentucky. He graduated with highest
distinction and Phi Beta Kappa at the University of Kentucky, where he
remained to earn a medical degree with highest distinction. He completed
a one-year internship at Spartanburg Regional Medical Center in Spartanburg,
South Carolina, and returned to the University of Kentucky to complete
three years of intense surgical training with the Department of Ophthalmology
residency program. Dr. Lee was honored and chosen by the faculty to serve
as Chief Resident within the department in his final year.
Following completion of residency, Dr. Lee was honored as Fellow in Cornea
& External Eye Disease and Cataract & Refractive Surgery at the
University of California, Davis Department of Ophthalmology in Sacramento,
California. He spent this prestigious year of intense surgical and medical
training with world-renowned corneal specialists, Drs. Mark Mannis and
Ivan Schwab, while serving as a clinical instructor for the residency
training program.
Dr. Lee remains actively involved in ophthalmic-related research activities
with scientific presentations, numerous publications in peer-reviewed
ophthalmology journals, and eight book chapters on corneal and refractive
surgery topics. He actively participates in teaching and training of ophthalmologists
with the cornea fellowship program at Eye Consultants of Atlanta.
The American Academy of Ophthalmology, American Society of Cataract &
Refractive Surgery, and International Society of Refractive Surgery are
among some of Dr. Lees professional organization memberships. Dr. Lee's
offices are located at Piedmont Hospital and Paces Pavilion, and he also
regularly travels to various locations in Georgia for consultations, including
Macon, Milledgeville, and Rome.
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Lee is a board certified ophthalmologist who is fellowship trained in
Lasik and Refractive surgery. He specializes not only in laser corrective
surgery but also the new intraocular lens implants such as the Crystalens,
Rezoom, and Restor lens. These lens are ideal for patients over 50 who
are interested being less dependent on reading glasses and/or bifocal
glasses. Dr. Lee also performs corneal tranpslants, DSAEK, and Intacs.
Dr. Lee performed his undergraduate degree at Vanderbilt University and
received his M.D. degree at the University of Alabama in Bimrmingham.
He then went on to train at Maryland General Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland for his ophthalmology residency. Upon completeng his residency, Dr. Lee went to Louisville, Kentucky to practice for two years. From there, Dr. Lee decided to do 2 additional years of fellowship training in Lasik and Corneal Transplant surgery. His first year he did at the University of Louisville. His second year was served at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.
Prior to joining the Eye Consultants of Atlanta, Dr. Lee has already gained extensive experience with performing Lasik and Cataract surgery. Dr. Lee is also a cornea specialist and can surgically treat keratoconus and fuchs dystrophy.
Perhaps
the most exciting surgey that Dr. Lee performs are the implantation of
the Crystalens, Rezoom, and Restor lenses. This procedure is similar to
Lasik for people over 50 years of age in that it corrects near-sightedness
and farsightedness. Currently, Lasik can only correct distance vision
for people over the age of 50 requiring them to have to use reading glasses
to read. The advantage of the Crystalens procedure is that is not only
corrects distance vision but it also allows one to be able to read as
well without the aid of reading glasses or bifocals. Any astigmatism that
the patient has can also be treated at the time of surgery with a limbal
relaxing incicion.
Dr. Lee currently enjoys spending time with his wife, Dr. Kari Kubik,
and his two children, Sam and Zoey. He is the Treasurer for the Korean
Medical Association of Georgia and actively participates in community
services.
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Dr. Stephen Hamilton MD
Board Certified
Dr. Hamilton is a fellowship trained corneal specialist at Eye Consultants
of Atlanta, Inc., the largest, private, multi-specialty ophthalmology
practice in Atlanta, GA. He specializes in refractive surgery as well
as cataract surgery with multifocal IOL technology, LASIK, corneal transplantation,
and anterior segment reconstructive procedures.
Considered one of the top young eye surgeons in Atlanta, Dr. Hamilton
has been selected by his peers to be included in "Best Doctors in America"
for each of the last six years, an honor which includes
only 5% of all doctors in the United States. He has seen patients in Atlanta,
Marietta, Athens, Carrollton, Rome, and Macon as a consulting corneal
specialist with other ophthalmology practices throughout the state. Distinguished
by his personable manner, Dr. Hamilton has a dedicated patient following
throughout Georgia and in surrounding states.
Dr. Hamilton has been practicing ophthalmology since 1990. He was one
of Emory Vision's attending surgeons for more than 6 years, until the
opening of Piedmont Better Vision in 2003. He has performed thousands
of LASIK and refractive procedures, and many local and national figures,
fellow physicians and eye doctors have chosen Dr. Hamilton as their surgeon.
In 2004 he was awarded the Centurion Surgeon and Quality of Vision award
By Alcon, the Ladar Vision Corporation, for his superior refractive surgical
results. He has extensive experience in modern cataract surgical
techniques including implantation of the premium multifocal implants,
ReSTOR, ReZoom, and Crystalens, and is one of the few surgeons in Atlanta
to be fully credentialed by Eyeonics to implant the Crystalens. He received
his B.S. degree in chemical engineering from Auburn University, and his
M.D. degree from the University of Alabama in Birmingham (UAB). Postgraduate
training included a medical-surgical internship at Carraway Methodist
Medical Center in Birmingham, and an ophthalmology residency at the Eye
Foundation Hospital (UAB), where he served as chief resident. Upon completion
of his residency, Dr. Hamilton pursued additional training through a fellowship
in cornea and external disease at Eye Consultants of Atlanta. This year
of advanced training included extensive experience in corneal transplant
and anterior segment and refractive surgery, following which he joined
this distinguished group. Dr. Hamilton is affiliated with Piedmont
Hospital in Atlanta, GA and has surgical privileges at various hospitals
throughout Georgia, where he works as a consultant.
Dr. Hamilton has served as a clinical instructor of Ophthalmology at Emory
University where he was involved in the teaching of advanced techniques
in corneal and cataract surgery. He has been on the Medical Advisory Committee
of the Georgia Eye Bank since 1999. Dr. Hamilton was an investigator in
the national HEDS group (Herpetic Eye Disease Study) at Emory University,
and is a local investigator in the national Corneal Donor Study and Fuchs
Dystrophy Genetic Study. Keeping abreast of new advances in the field
of ophthalmology, he is the chief investigator in a study of special intraocular
lens in patients following severe ocular trauma. He has authored or co-authored
numerous publications and presentations on various topics in Ophthalmology
including corneal disease, ocular trauma, LASIK and surgical techniques,
and was one of the first surgeons in the United States to implant the
AlphaCor artificial cornea.
Dr. Hamilton has donated his gifts and services both locally and in less
developed countries, including Honduras and Kenya, providing
surgery for the blind and the poor. He has an ongoing relationship with
the Lost Boys of Sudan, and Childspring International. His generous
spirit is also represented by giving to the Atlanta community, including
raising funds for local charities and organizations, and playing the drums
weekly for the Life Teen Mass at Christ the King.
Artificial Cornea Procedure Performed by Dr. Stephen Hamilton of Piedmont Hospital
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Stephen M. Hamilton, M.D.,
ophthalmologist and corneal specialist at Eye Consultants of Atlanta and
Piedmont Better Vision - a joint venture between Piedmont Hospital and
Eye Consultants of Atlanta, Inc. - is one of the first surgeons in the
world to be accredited to implant an artificial cornea in patients with
corneal blindness. He performed his first of several such procedures in
August.
"For more than 200 years, scientists have attempted to make an artificial
cornea," Dr. Hamilton says. "Ten million people around the world suffer
corneal blindness, but due to the lack of access to donor tissue, only
an estimated 100,000 corneal transplants are performed each year worldwide."
The AlphaCor artificial cornea is made of a biocompatible polymer which
prevents the need for immunosuppressant therapies usually required with
human donor tissue. The patient's own cells grow into a spongy outer rim
and hold it in place, allowing the eye to function normally.
In the two-stage procedure, the artificial cornea is first inserted into
a specially created pocket in the patient's cornea, covered usually with
a healing membrane from the patient's conjunctiva and allowed to heal
for up to three months. Stage two involves the removal of a small section
of the patient's cornea in front of the optic to make vision possible.
"Four years of extensive clinical trials in humans and 14 years of research
have shown that the AlphaCor improves sight substantially in patients
who are unlikely to have success from a traditional human donor transplant
or do not have access to donor tissue," Dr. Hamilton says.
For more information on Dr. Hamilton or the procedure, www.piedmontbettervision.com
or call 404-350-1414.
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Piedmont Hospital Davies
Lecture
"A Decade of Innovations in Ophthalmology"
Dr. Hamilton featured in UAB Medical Bulletin
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Dr. Hamilton featured in UAB Department of Ophthalmology Newsletter
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