Richard S. Eisenberg, O.D.

Dr. Richard S. Eisenberg is a highly trained and experienced optometrist who has been as intimately involved in the research, development, and fitting of specialty contact lenses as he has been in the clinical practice of optometry. As a pioneer clinical investigator for Bausch and Lomb, he helped pave the way for the first soft contact lenses to be FDA approved for wear in the U.S. in 1971. In private practice in Woodland Hills since 1974, Dr. Eisenberg has served as field investigator for a variety of contact lenses prior to FDA approval, including The Hydrocurve Toric® and the now popular Soflens 38® disposable contact lenses. With a special interest in Ophthalmic Wellness, his research in the prevention of ocular disease through the use of specific vitamin and antioxidant therapy, has helped one of the nation's largest vitamin manufacturers reformulate their vitamin to include all the necessary elements helpful in maintaining ocular tissue integrity.

Dr. Eisenberg has completed his post-graduate clinical training and is Board Certified to treat and manage ocular disease as defined by the California State Board of Optometry. He is on the attending staff at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and the Providence-Tarzana Medical Center

Dr. Eisenberg has been actively involved in laser vision correction surgery since the FDA approved the procedure in April of 1995. He has studied LASIK procedures in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and Europe. Over the years, he has been affiliated with 8 laser eye centers in Southern California, including the Jules Stein Eye Institute at UCLA. He has helped many of these centers set up their optometric protocols for co--managing laser vision correction patients. Currently, Dr. Eisenberg is the President of the TLC Optometric Advisory Board and serves as the Optometric Liaison of the Berg-Feinfield/TLC Vision Correction Center for the Greater Los Angeles area. Dr. Eisenberg teaches other doctors how to incorporate LASIK into their own busy optometric practices.

Each year, The Dr. Richard S. Eisenberg Scholarship of $500 is presented to a fourth year student at the Southern California College of Optometry who can present the best idea to enhance the profession of optometry. Dr. Eisenberg has received a number of awards including The Mayor's Award from the City of Los Angeles and the Vision U.S.A. award from President George Bush. He has received numerous awards from the California Optometric Association and is in Who's Who in California, Who's Who in America, and the National Who's Who in Medicine. Each year since 2002, his name has been included in the "Guide to America's Top Optometrists".

Alan M. Berg, M.D.

Meet The Surgeon

Alan M. Berg, M.D., a Board Certified Ophthalmologist, has been a pioneer in refractive surgery, beginning with Radial Keratotomy (RK), for the last 25 years. He now specializes in laser vision correction and refractive lens implant surgery. He chose to become an ophthalmologist "to help patients with their most important sense - their sight". Dr. Berg is a national consultant for Merck and Allergan medical corporations, enabling him to share his expertise in ophthalmology with ophthalmologists all over the world. Dr. Berg has performed over 20,000 LASIK procedures, including Dr. Feinfield, his partner. Dr. Berg has been chosen as one of only 50 surgeons in the U.S. to be involved with clinical trials of the Implantable Collamer Lens (ICL). Dr. Berg has chosen to use only state-of-the-art technology, to help his patients, which include both the VISX Star S4 with Custom Wavefront technology, and Intralase - all-laser technology.

Dr. Berg earned his medical degree and completed a year of residency at Bowman Gray School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He finished his residency in Ophthalmology at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where he remains on the faculty teaching residents in training. He is a medical staff member and former Chief of Ophthalmology of Providence St. Joseph Medical Center. Dr. Berg is the former Chief of the Department of Ophthalmology at the City of Hope Medical Center in Duarte. He was an expert reviewer for the California Medical Review Board. He has performed thousands of cataract IOL surgeries and now utilizes advanced IOL technology including Multifocal/Accommodating Implants for the correction of presbyopia.

Dr. Berg was recently honored as VISX Star Surgeon by the VISX Laser company as one of the leading top 5% LASIK surgeons in the USA and has been featured on UPN (Channel 13) News regarding advances in LASIK technologies. Dr. Berg has been selected as one of the "Best Doctors in America" in 2005-06. He has lectured on laser vision correction throughout the United States to other ophthalmologists and has taught foreign ophthalmologists the art of LASIK. He is the medical director of Kobe Laser Center in Tokyo and Kobe, Japan.

When he is not working, he enjoys spending time with his wife and two children

LASIK and Cataract Surgeries are performed at the Berg-Feinfield/TLC Vision Correction Centers in Sherman Oaks and Burbank, CA

Visit Dr. Berg's Website at: www.bergfeinfield.com