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Meet Our Surgeons

David Huang, M.D. David Huang, M.D.

Dr. David Huang joined the Cleveland Clinic's Cole Eye Institute in 1998 after completing a fellowship in cornea, external disease and refractive surgery at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta. He received his medical degree from Harvard University and completed his residency training at the University of Southern California, Doheny Eye Institute. He received bachelors, masters and doctorate degrees in engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he conceived the idea for optical coherence tomography, a technology that allows non-contact cross-sectional imaging of tissue microstructure and cofounded a company to develop its applications in the eye. His clinical subspecialties are refractive surgery, corneal disease and cataract and anterior segment surgery. He also conducts basic research on laser and optical devices for ophthalmic imaging and surgery, and clinical research on refractive surgery techniques and outcome analysis.


Ronald R. Krueger, M.D Ronald R. Krueger, M.D

Dr. Ronald Krueger has been Medical Director of the Department of Refractive Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic's Cole Eye Institute since 1998. He received his medical degree from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in 1987. He completed his ophthalmology residency at the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center of New York and completed two fellowships in cornea and refractive surgery at the University of Oklahoma and the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Prior to joining the Cole Eye Institute, he was associate professor of ophthalmology at the Saint Louis University Eye Institute. He currently serves as the Associate Editor for the Journal of Refractive Surgery and is Education Committee Chairman for the International Society of Refractive Surgery. Dr. Krueger has performed thousands of refractive surgery procedures, including laser in-situ keratomileusis (LASIK), photorefractive keratectomy (PRK), astigmatic keratotomy (AK), and advanced corneal transplant surgery.


David M. Meisler, M.D. David M. Meisler, M.D.

Dr. David M. Meisler has been practicing at the Cleveland Clinic since 1982, after completing a fellowship at the Francis I. Proctor Foundation at the University of California-San Francisco. His specialty interests include the medical and surgical treatment of corneal and external diseases, corneal transplantation, uveitis and refractive surgery. A 1976 graduate of The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Dr. Meisler completed his residency at Northwestern University Medical Center in Chicago and additional postgraduate training at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City.


Michael Millstein, MD Michael Millstein, MD

Dr. Millstein joined the Cleveland Clinic's Department of Ophthalmology in 1999. Prior to that, he was in private practice in the Cleveland area for about 10 years. Dr. Millstein graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1986. He served his residency in ophthalmology at the University of Cincinnati and an internship at Mount Sinai Hospital of Cleveland. He received a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Case Western Reserve University in 1982. He is a member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, the American Medical Association and the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery.

His specialty interests include cataracts, glaucoma and laser vision correction (LASIK).


Allen S. Roth, MD Allen S. Roth, MD

Dr. Roth joined The Cleveland Clinic Department of Ophthalmology in 1999. Prior to that he was in private practice in the Cleveland area for 12 years. Dr. Roth earned his medical degree from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in 1983 and completed his ophthalmology residency training at Mt. Sinai Medical Center in Cleveland. He then did a fellowship in cornea surgery, anterior segment surgery and refractive surgery at Tulane University Medical Center in New Orleans. He did his internship at Mt. Sinai and earned a bachelor's degree in biology at Washington University in St. Louis. Dr. Roth is a member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, the American College of Surgeons, the Ohio Ophthalmological Society, the Cleveland Ophthalmological Society, the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, the Contact Lens Association of Ophthalmologists, the International Society of Refractive Surgery and the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery. He also serves as chairman of the Medical Policy Committee of the Cleveland Eye Bank and serves on the organization's Board of Directors. His specialty interests include corneal transplantation, laser vision correction (LASIK), and cataract surgery.