Yaron S. Rabinowitz, M.D.
Diplomate, American Board of Ophthalmology

Dr. Rabinowitz served as Chief of Ophthalmology and is currently the Director of Research in the Division of Ophthalmology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, specializing in the cornea, refractive surgery (LASIK) and hereditary eye diseases. He obtained his subspecialty training at the USC/Doheny Eye Institute and Johns Hopkins University. In 1990 Dr. Rabinowitz founded the Cornea Genetic Eye Institute at Cedars-Sinai Mark Goodson Building .

He has been the recipient of a prestigious research grant sponsored by the National Eye Institutes of Health since 1992. His research interests include studying the shape of the cornea as it is applied to refractive surgery (corneal topography) and the genetics of keratoconus, a genetic disease affecting the cornea.

He was the Chief of Ophthalmology from 1996 to 2001 and is currently the Director of Ophthalmology Research at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. He is a Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology at the Jules Stein Eye Institute, UCLA School of Medicine and was the recipient of the Jules Stein Alumni Research Award in 1991, awarded for his work on innovative eye laser surgery techniques.

Dr. Rabinowitz is the author of a book on corneal topography, the inventor of a computer program which is used for screening for refractive surgery on a worldwide basis. He has published over 50 journal articles and abstracts, and given 100 lectures in more than a dozen countries. (Follow this link to review a detailed CV.) He has been performing refractive surgery since completing his fellowship in 1989. He has been an investigator for FDA clinical trials on both the VISX laser and the LADARVision tracking laser and is currently an investigator for Custom Cornea clinical trials to treat irregular corneas and to attempt to achieve 'supervision' in normal eyes. He is the founding Director of Laser Eye Associates of Los Angeles at Cedars-Sinai Mark Goodson Building, one of the most sophisticated laser surgery groups in the world. He has been the recipient of the VISX star award based on the number of laser surgeries performed and has performed thousands of laser surgeries including over 30 doctors many of whom are cornea specialists, ophthalmologists and optometrists.

An avid reader, traveler, and tennis player, he is married and lives with his wife Nancy, three children Leah, Alec and Sara in Marina Del Rey, California.

For more information about Dr. Rabinowitz’s clinical investigations, research grants, academic honors and awards, published scientific manuscripts and articles, and conference presentations, please click here.