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Office Serving
Bel Air, CA
Brentwood, CA
Hollywood, CA
Century City, CA
Santa Monica, CA
Culver City, CA
Greater Los Angeles
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David A. Wallace, MD
David Wallace, MD is a board-certified
ophthalmologist specializing in Lasik, PRK, and other methods
of vision correction. A graduate of the UC San Diego School
of Medicine, he completed his internship at UCLA and his
ophthalmology residency at USC Medical Center's Doheny Eye
Foundation. In private practice since 1983, he has performed
over 11,000 LASIK treatments and over 5,000 lens implant
procedures.
Dr. Wallace was named by Los Angeles
Magazine as one of “LA’s Best Doctors” , and has been quoted
in the New York Times , Los Angeles Times , and Business
Week magazine, among others. He has authored numerous scientific
papers in professional journals and several articles about
laser eye care in the lay press including LASIK For Pilots
in the October, 2000 issue of Plane & Pilot magazine.
Dr. Wallace is also recognized as an
innovator in the field of high-tech medical instrumentation.
He co-invented and developed three computer-based diagnostic
instruments now used by eye-care professionals worldwide.
The instruments are known as the Tono-Pen Tonometer (measures
eye pressure, important in diagnosis and management of glaucoma),
the Pach-Pen Pachymeter (measures corneal thickness, critical
in many refractive surgery procedures and in monitoring
certain corneal disease states), and the Bio-Pen A-scan
(ultrasonically measures internal dimensions of the eye
to help calculate lens implant strength before cataract
surgery). He holds several patents pertaining to microelectronic
computerized instruments, and founded Oculab Inc., to manufacture
these products. They were recognized by the Industrial Designers
Society of America and received the Industrial Design Excellence
Award. The Tono-Pen tonometer has since been used in experiments
aboard NASA's Space Shuttle, and had a cameo appearance
in an episode of NBC TV's "ER". Dr. Wallace remains active
in research and development of products for the eye care
profession.
Dr. Wallace is a firm believer in and
advocate for public accountability of professionals including
doctors and surgeons. "Medicine is at it's core service
profession, not unlike the hotel and restaurant business,
yet the consumer of medical care has no tools to help guide
medical care decisions like a Michelin hotel guide, Zagat
restaurant survey, or the statistical equivalent of a baseball
player's batting average." He has helped implement surgical
outcome tracking and reporting systems within his private
practice and for other LASIK providers, to both monitor
and improve results for recipients of laser care, and provide
the public with accurate statistics about safety, efficacy,
stability and accuracy of laser vision care.
Dr. Wallace has provided consulting and
teaching services for many ophthalmic companies including
Chiron Vision, IOLAB, Medtronic/Solan Ophthalmic, Mentor
O&O, Pharmacia, Synemed, Bio-Rad Ophthalmic, and Carl Zeiss.
He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Ophthalmology
and a member of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive
Surgery.
Beginning in college, Dr. Wallace worked
part-time as a freelance photographer and photojournalist.
He has had several shows of his work and has won a few photography
awards. Though you shouldn't choose a LASIK surgeon because
he or she has won a few photo contests, Dr. Wallace does
feel that his awareness of light, vision, imaging and optics
acquired through his photography background has definitely
enhanced his abilities as a vision-correction specialist.
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