Stephen C. Pflugfelder, M.D.

Dr. Pflugfelder is a graduate of SUNY Upstate Medical University Syracuse. He completed his ophthalmology residency at Baylor College of Medicine, followed by a corneal fellowship at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute at the University of Miami School of Medicine. He was invited to join the faculty of Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in 1985 and was promoted to professor in 1998. He returned to the Cullen Eye Institute at Baylor College of Medicine as a professor in July 2000, and was awarded the James and Margaret Elkins Chair in Ophthalmology in 2002. Dr. Pflugfelder began performing refractive surgery in 1985. He has published more than 150 research articles, book chapters, and monographs on disease and surgery of the cornea, including excimer laser vision correction surgery. He most recently co-authored a sentinel textbook, Dry Eye and Ocular Surface Disorders. He has been named one of the “Best Doctors in America” in a survey of physicians. He served on the editorial board of the journals Cornea and American Journal of Ophthalmology. He is the president of the International Ocular Surface Society. Dr. Pflugfelder also serves as the director of the Ocular Surface Center, where research is conducted in the area of ocular surface disorders.

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