LASIK Surgeon Surendra Basti, M.D.
In Chicago, Illinois
LASIK surgeon Dr. Surendra Basti is a fellowship-trained specialist in Refractive, Corneal and Cataract Surgery and is Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at Northwestern University Medical School.
Dr. Basti graduated from medical school in Mangalore, India in 1988 and practiced for five years on the faculty of the L V Prasad Eye Institute in Hyderabad, India as a fellowship-trained cornea and refractive surgeon. In 1998, he migrated to the United States and completed internship training followed by ophthalmology residency at the Department of Ophthalmology, Northwestern University, where he graduated in July 2003. He thereafter completed a one-year fellowship in Refractive, Corneal and Cataract surgery at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. Dr. Basti is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Ophthalmology at Northwestern University.
Dr. Basti has performed laser refractive surgery since 1996. He has authored 60 publications in peer-reviewed ophthalmology journals. He has researched extensively and treated patients with recent state-of-the-art refractive technology such as the Wavefront-guided custom laser, Intralase Femtosecond laser and Intacs. LASIK surgeon Dr. Basti is the lead instructor of a teaching course on "Optimizing the Use of the Intralase Femtosecond Laser". This course is taught to practicing eye surgeons at the annual meeting of the American Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgeons each year since 2005. In 2007, Dr. Basti was named to the list of the "Best Doctors in America". His academic profile is also cited in Marquis Who's Who in Medicine and Healthcare (Reed Elsevier Inc., New Providence, New Jersey), a publication that lists prominent & accomplished medical professionals.
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