Doctors Only
Welcome to our Doctors Only section! Procedures such as Cataract, Refractive, Corneal, and Glaucoma surgery must be approached with a great deal of consideration. Careful patient selection, superior technique, appropriate treatment, complication management and excellent follow-up help to ensure optimum outcomes. Our goal is to bring ophthalmologists, optometrists, opticians and ancillary ophthalmic personnel together to deliver the most efficient and highest quality eye health care!
In this rapidly advancing field , continuing education (CE) is essential to maintain the highest standard of care for our patients. Our wide variety of CE programs are fully accredited by the Ohio State Board of Optometry.
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Quarterly Optometric Seminars – Next date TBA: (March 2012)
- Attend our quarterly seminars held at New Albany Country Club. This popular series, established in yr. 2000, includes lecture and open discussion concentrated on various advances and topics in refractive surgery. Case presentations are introduced to reinforce lecture topics.
Register for our next New Albany Optometric Seminar! Date: TBA, (March 2012)
Contact: Patrick Janson, OD Two (2) hours Ohio CE
(Left): Dr.Searcy discussing a Glaucoma topic during our NOVEMBER 30, 2011 seminar.
(Right): Yes, dinner is provided!
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27th Annual Professional Education 2012 – Sunday April 29th, Save the Date!
- This well-attended seminar established in 1985 by Frank Bickel, OD and ProCare Vision Centers draws attendees from around OHIO. In 2010, after 25 years, the reigns were passed to us! Now in it’s 27th year, the I Can See Clearly Foundation proudly presents:
27th Annual Optometric Education Sunday, April 29, 2012 – Save the Date!
Six (6) hours Ohio CE
View: meeting brochure which also contains registration instructions: send check by regular mail.
Questions? cme@icanseeclearly.org or contact Alicia O’Connell @ 614.863.3937Guest Speakers:
Mike Depaolis, OD – Clinical Associate in Ophthalmology – University of Rochester, School of Medicine.
Gary Andrasko, O.D., M.S. – Director, Research Practice -
Visit Us!
Visit the Erdey Searcy Eye Group and observe our office or ambulatory surgery center in action. It is important to personally experience how your patients will be evaluated and treated by our well-trained and courteous staff. You will have the opportunity to observe Drs. Erdey, Searcy and Kaswinkel in the clinic or as they perform various surgical procedures in their state-of-the-art ambulatory surgical center. Whatever your needs, please contact us to learn more about our practice and the CE opportunities we offer.
- Observe ophthalmology patient encounters in our 18 exam lane eye clinic. Up to (8) hours/day optometric continuing education credit. Location: Erdey Searcy Eye Group
- Observe no-stitch, topical anesthesia, rapid rehabilitation cataract, Presbyopic IOL’s, innovative scleral recession for astigmatism correction, advanced targeted tissue cornea transplantation surgery in the operating room and/or pre- and postoperative office care in our office. Up to eight (8) hours / day optometric continuing education credit. Location: East Columbus Surgery Center
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Ocular Disease Externship
The Erdey Searcy Eye Group is committed to providing educational opportunities to eye care professionals within our community and beyond. In addition to our continuing education seminars for area optometrists and our accredited residency program for newly graduated optometrists, we host two student externs from The Ohio State University College of Optometry each quarter. During this three month period, these student doctors are exposed to diagnosis, treatment, and management of visual disorders, including a weekly didactic lecture series. Their primary focus is patient care and, under the mentorship of our staff ophthalmologists and optometrists, all of whom enjoy faculty appointments at The Ohio State University, they gain valuable experience and hone critical skills.
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Optometric Residency Program
Established in 1995, and now fully accredited, it is the only optometric residency offering a private group ophthalmology experience in Central Ohio.
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Patient Referral
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Questions About A Challenging Case?
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Innovations
Erdey Lasik Flap Elevator
For more information, click here
Implantable Contact Lens (Visian ICL™)
Richard A Erdey, MD is a clinical co-investigator for the Implantable Contact Lens (Staar Surgical) US FDA Study. For more information click here.The Erdey Searcy Eye Group has the distinction of being one of the few practices in Ohio that has aquired this important UBM technology! Read more.
Astigmatism Correction – Scleral Recession
Richard A Erdey, MD has developed this simple, effective method as an alternative to limbal relaxing incisions, Toric Intraocular lenses, or Laser Vision Correction to reduce or eliminate astigmatism during cataract or Visian ICL surgery. For more information click here.
Iris Reconstruction Intraocular Lens
Richard A Erdey, MDis a clinical investigator for the Iris Reconstruction Intraocular Lens.Gregory D Searcy, MD and Daryl D Kaswinkel are co-investigators. This is an elegant device which compensates for partial or complete iris defects. For more information, click here. -
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