Our LASIK Surgeons

	Paul Koch, M.D. Dr. Koch is a Founder and the Medical Director of Koch Eye Associates in Rhode Island. His specialty is Cataract, Lens Implantation, Refractive Surgery and Laser Eye Surgery including LASIK & Custom Lasik Laser Eye 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.He has been cited in each issue of the Best Doctors in America. He has won many awards including 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. He was in the inaugural group of inductees into the Bishop Hendricken High School Hall of Fame. Dr. Koch has written seven textbooks on eye surgery, six of them about cataract surgery, which are the standard reading materials for residency programs in the U.S. and abroad. He has also authored a book about corneal refractive surgery including LASIK & Custom Lasik Laser Eye Surgery and written many journal articles, book chapters, and specialty editorials on Cataract Surgery, Lens Replacement Surgery, LASIK and Custom Lasik Laser Eye Surgery. Presently, he is editing the first textbook on refractive lens implants for myopia and hyperopia.He has helped popularize 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. In addition, prior to performing LASIK & Custom Lasik Laser 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. He has also had radial keratotomy himself. Dr. Koch performs all types of Laser Eye Surgery including LASIK & Custom Lasik Laser Eye Surgery using advanced technology in his Warwick & Providence Rhode Island Laser Vision Correction Centers. Koch Eye Laser Vision Centers in Warwick & Providence Rhode Island are dedicated to providing comprehensive refractive surgery care including LASIK & Custom Lasik Laser Eye Surgery, Lens Replacement Surgery using ReZoom, ReSTOR & Crystalens, and Phakic Lens Implants such as Visian and Versyse for extreme nearsightedness.
	Michael A. Negrey, M.D. Michael Negrey, M.D. joined East Lyme Laser Vision Center in October 2005. He provides Laser Eye surgery for the correction of nearsightedness, farsightedness and astigmatism including LASIK, PRK, Epi-LASIK and LASEK. Dr. Negrey received his Medical Degree from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, PA. He completed his internship at Presbyterian/St. Luke's Medical Center in Denver and his Ophthalmology Residency at Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia. Dr. Negrey completed a one-year fellowship in Cornea, Refractive Surgery and External Disease at the University of Illinois making him a LASIK specialist. Dr. Negrey ran and finished the Boston Marathon for the Boston Marathon Charity Program in 2003 and 2004, raising nearly $6000 for charities. Professional Affiliations: American Academy of Ophthalmology; Rhode Island Medical Society; Pennsylvania Medical Society.

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