• Professor Dan Reinstein
• Mr. Glenn Carp

Your Surgeon: Professor Dan Reinstein

Professor Reinstein, exclusive eye laser specialist for Extreme Makeover UK, and founder of London Vision Clinic, is one of the few full-time Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeons in the UK to dedicate his entire professional life to laser eye surgery.

According to the Health Which? Magazine,

Dan Reinstein is one of very few ophthalmologists working in the UK who is a fellowship-trained specialist refractive surgeon.

Becoming a laser eye specialist — the long way

Professor Reinstein's 18 years of training and experience has made him into an ophthalmologist with a solid general medical and surgical background. He completed his undergraduate education at Cambridge. His postgraduate training includes an M.A., an M.B. B.Chir and an MD. He has received extensive post-doctorate fellowship sub-specialty training in laser eye surgery, including

• A Research Fellowship in Ophthalmic Epidemiology (Institute of Ophthalmology, London 1991)
• A Fellowship in Ophthalmology (The Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York 1994)
• A Residency in Ophthalmology (Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York 1996)
• A Refractive Surgical Fellowship (under laser eye surgeons Zaldivar, Arbelaez, Chacon, and Barraquer, 1997)
• A Fellowship in Cornea, External Disease and Refractive Surgery (University of British Columbia, Canada 1999)

Achieving international recognition among laser eye surgeons

Many of his peers consider Professor Reinstein to be one of the UK's international experts in laser eye surgery. He is a recognised specialist ophthalmic surgeon in the UK and is a board-certified ophthalmologist in the USA and Canada. He holds professorships and consultant posts in New York (Weill Medical College of Cornell University), London (St. Thomas Hospital — Kings College), and Paris (Centre Hospitalier National d'Ophtalmologie des Quinze-Vingts).

Producing new research and innovation

Professor Reinstein is an experienced research scientist in the field of laser eye surgery and makes major contributions to the field. To date, Professor Reinstein

• Holds 7 patents in techniques or technology relating to laser eye surgery
• Has delivered over 166 lectures at professional meetings on five continents
• Has been a moderator or panellist at over 39 scientific international meeting panels
• Has published over 37 articles in peer reviewed medical journals
• Has contributed or written 15 book chapters / published proceedings.
• Has written over 35 articles for the Ophthalmic Press
• Has presented or published 142 scientific papers or abstracts

Supervising 180,000 laser eye surgery procedures

Professor Reinstein is the former Chief Medical Officer of a group of over 58 laser eye surgeons across 28 clinics across North America. During his tenure, the group grew to become the largest provider of laser vision correction in the world (performing over 100,000 procedures per year).

Reaching millions every week — Extreme Makeover UK

Professor Reinstein has appeared frequently on television as the exclusive eye laser specialist for Extreme Makeover UK. BBC Breakfast News, SKY News, and BBC Radio 4 have interviewed him. The Times and The Sunday Times Magazine have featured him as an expert in laser eye surgery.

Would you like to know more?

If you would like to know more about Professor Reinstein, request a copy of his CV or a DVD with excerpts of Extreme Makeover UK, please contact a patient education consultant on 0800 587 4705.