Since 1995, Dr. Shahinfar has been proudly serving the residents of Columbus, Central Ohio, and West Virginia. As a trusted LASIK surgeon, he has performed eye surgery on thousands of patients, including dozens of the Eye Centers staff, their family, and friends. He has performed over 35,000 LASIK procedures (and thousands of other eye surgeries), making him one of the most experienced LASIK surgeons in the Ohio. Dr. Shahinfar became interested in laser vision correction early on. He was a primary investigator for Lasersight, one of the manufacturers of excimer lasers, along with the late Dr. Bloomberg. To learn LASIK eye surgery, he traveled to Santa Domingo, Dominican Republic and worked with Dr. Raphael Felix, an expert LASIK surgeon familiar with the Lasersight excimer laser. This was prior to Lasersights FDA approval in this country. Dr. Shahinfar went on to become certified on several other laser platforms, including AMO Visx, Bausch & Lomb, Nidek, and IntraLase utilized at Bloomberg Eye Center. University of Illinois, College of Medicine at Chicago, 1985-1990 Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, Internship, 1990-1991 Stanford University Basic Science Course in Ophthalmology 1991 University of Missouri-Columbia, Residency in Ophthalmology, 1991-1994 Southern Illinois University, Clinical Fellowship, 1994-1995 Board Certified, American Board of Ophthalmology Fellow of the American Academy of Ophthalmology Member, American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons Member of the American Society of Retina Specialists Member of Ohio Ophthalmologic Society Diplomat of the National Board of Medical Examiners AMAs Physicians Recognition Award Clinical Assistant Professor, Ohio State University