Andrew Caster, MD graduated college from Harvard
University with Phi Beta Kappa honors and then graduated
from Harvard Medical School with honors. Dr. Caster
performed his ophthalmology residency at the UCLA Jules
Stein Eye Institute.
Certified by the American Board of Ophthalmology,
Dr. Caster is a Clinical Instructor in Ophthalmology
at the UCLA Jules Stein Eye Institute, and a staff physician
at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
Dr. Caster was the first ophthalmologist in the Los
Angeles area to dedicate his practice exclusively to
refractive surgery. He is one of the most experienced
and knowledgeable physicians in the United States in
this field. Dr. Caster has personally performed over
14,000 procedures to correct nearsightedness, farsightedness,
and astigmatism. A large number of our patients travel
to us for laser vision correction from across the United
States, as well as from Central and South America, Asia,
and Europe.
In 1999, Dr. Caster was selected by Los Angeles Magazine
as the "Best Laser Eye Surgeon in Los Angeles". Dr.
Caster has been selected by Visx as one of the "Top
50" laser eye surgeons in the United States for four
years in a row. He was selected by W Magazine as one
of two top Lasik surgeons in America and was selected
by the vote of other physicians as one of the "Best
Doctors in America".
Articles featuring Dr. Caster and his work with Lasik
laser vision correction have appeared in many publications
including Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, and The
Los Angeles Times. Dr. Caster recently appeared on the
NBC Today show, interviewed by Katie Couric, in which
he discussed the newest advances in vision correction.
Dr. Caster performed all of the Lasik treatments for
the first season of the Fox television show, The Swan.
Dr. Caster has also been a featured guest on numerous
television programs, including KCBS Channel 2 News (in
which he performed laser vision correction on anchorman
Kyle Kraska), Hard Copy (in which he performed laser
vision correction on actor Lorenzo Lamas), and Fox Sports
(in which he performed Lasik on Los Angeles Lakers assistant
manager and former player Kurt Rambis).
