Brian M DeBroff MD FACS

Summary

• Dr. Brian DeBroff is Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Science and Vice Chairman of Faculty Affairs at Yale University School of Medicine and a member of the Board of Permanent Officers at Yale University. Dr. DeBroff specializes in cataract and IOL implantation surgery having completed fellowship training in Anterior Segment Surgery. He has particular clinical and research interests in Femtosecond Laser Assisted Cataract Surgery and Intraoperative Aberrometry. He was appointed Director of Cataract and IOL implant surgery at the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science at the Yale School of Medicine in 1999.
  
  Dr. DeBroff graduated with BS and MD degrees from the Tufts University School of Medicine where he was inducted in the Sir William Osler Society, and received the Sandoz Award for academic excellence. He completed his residency at the Eye and Ear Institute in Pittsburgh, and an anterior segment fellowship under Howard Gimbel MD. He was Program Director at Yale from 1998 to 2003 was presented with the Yale Resident Teaching Award in 1998 and 2008. Dr. DeBroff has over 125 publications including two books, and he has written seven book chapters and has lectured nationally and internationally. He is Editor-in-Chief of Advances in Ophthalmology & Visual System and on the editorial board/Senior Reviewer for the Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, Archives of Ophthalmology, American Journal of Ophthalmology and British Journal of Ophthalmology and Frontiers in Ophthalmology. Dr. DeBroff was inducted in the IIIC (International Intra-Ocular Implant Society) founded by Sir Harold Ridley for his work on IOL Optic Capture and has received awards by Best Doctors, Castle Connolly, Connecticut Magazine, and New York Magazine.