David Richardson, MD - Glaucoma and Canaloplasty Surgeon

Professional Information

Profession

Physician

Degree

MD

Primary Area of Practice

Ophthalmology

Specialty/Area of Focus

Canaloplasty

Other Specialty/Area of Focus

Glaucoma

Medical School

Graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1995

Bio

Eye Surgeon | Los Angeles | Glaucoma and Canaloplasty Surgeon

Dr. David Richardson is a Southern California board certified eye surgeon specializing in the treatment of Cataract and Glaucoma. He is also the medical director of San Gabriel Valley Eye Associates, located in Pasadena, California.    Dr. Richardson has performed thousands of advanced cataract and Canaloplasty procedures with excellent results.

Education & Training
After graduating with top honors from the University of Southern California (USC), he received the prestigious Phi Beta Kappa Scholarship to attend Harvard Medical School. While in medical school, he accepted a research fellowship at the National Institutes of Health to study visual cognition. Dr. Richardson then completed an internal medicine internship at Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena, which was followed by ophthalmology training at LAC+USC/Doheny Eye Institute in Los Angeles – one of the top ophthalmology residencies in the country.

Experience & Specialization
Dr. Richardson joined the San Gabriel Valley Eye Associates in 1999 and became San Gabriel’s first ophthalmologist to use such modern technologies as the accommodating Crystalens (with cataract surgery) and the iTrack microcatheter (canaloplasty glaucoma surgery).   Dr. Richardson is among an elite group of glaucoma specialists in the country performing the highly specialized canaloplasty procedure. Patients have traveled from as far away as Mumbai, India to have canaloplasty by Dr. Richardson.

Dr. Richardson not only performs canaloplasty, he also teaches other surgeons how to do so.  As one of the leading canaloplasty surgeons he regularly gives talks at the national meetings of eye surgeons.  As part of his quest to make this safer glaucoma surgery available to glaucoma patients throughout the world, he is often asked to fly out to teach individual doctors how best to incorporate canaloplasty into their practices.  Dr. Richardson was recently included among a panel of respected glaucoma surgeons whose goal was to find ways to make it easier for other eye surgeons to learn how to perform canaloplasty.  You can read what this panel had to say here.

To learn more about Dr. David D. Richardson, visit http://david-richardson-md.com.

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Profile Details

Location

Los Angeles, CA US

Honorifics

MD

Hospital Affiliations

San Gabriel Valley Medical Center

Honors and Awards

Los Angeles Super Doctor Honors (2010 - 2012)

Pasadena Magazine's Top Doctor Honors (2008-2011)

Compassionate Doctor Recognition (2010)

Patients' Choice Award (2010-2011)

Harvard Linnane Scholar

Harvard National Scholar

Phi Beta Kappa Graduate Scholarship

Phi Kappa Phi Graduate Scholarship

Magna Cum Laude

Order of the Palm

Milo Don Appleman Jr., M.D. Memorial Award

J. Wesley Robb Endowed Scholarship in Human Values

Skull and Dagger Senior Honor Society

Mortar Board National Senior Honor Society

Phi Beta Kappa National Honor Society

Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society

Languages

English (Native fluency)

Spanish (Professional fluency)

Certifications

Board certified: Ophthalmology
THE AMERICAN BOARD OF OPHTHALMOLOGY

Certified Canaloplasty Surgeon 2010
iScience Interventional

Associations

THE AMERICAN BOARD OF OPHTHALMOLOGY
Diplomat

ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS

AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
Lifetime Member

AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY
Fellow

AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CATARACT AND REFRACTIVE SURGERY
Member

CALIFORNIA MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
Member

LOS ANGELES COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY

Member

Schools

University of Southern California
BS

Harvard Medical School
MD

National Institutes of Health
Fellowship, Research

Huntington Memorial Hospital
Internship
Internal medicine

LAC+USC/Doheny Eye Institute
Residency, Ophthalmology

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