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Office
1101 Clarity Rd
Suite 100
Mount Pleasant, SC 29464Phone+1 843-884-8584Fax+1 843-375-1480- Is this information wrong?
Summary
- Dr. Francisco Folgar, MD is a board certified ophthalmologist in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. He is currently licensed to practice medicine in South Carolina, North Carolina, and New York. He is affiliated with Roper Hospital, Roper St. Francis Mount Pleasant Hospital, and Bon Secours St. Francis Hospital.
Education & Training
Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell at Lenox Hill HospitalInternship, Internal Medicine, 2007 - 2008
New York University School of MedicineClass of 2007
Certifications & Licensure
SC State Medical License 2015 - 2025
NC State Medical License 2012 - 2020
NY State Medical License 2008 - 2012- American Board of Ophthalmology Ophthalmology
Awards, Honors, & Recognition
- CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification EpicCare Ambulatory EMR, Epic Systems Corporation, 2013
Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- 3 citationsSubfoveal Lucency after Treatment of Vitreomacular Traction without Macular Hole in the Phase 3 Trials of Ocriplasmin Vitreolysis.Akshay S. Thomas, Francisco A. Folgar, Glenn J. Jaffe, Cynthia A. Toth, Tamer H. Mahmoud> ;Ophthalmology. Retina. 2019 Jan 1
- 6 citationsRecovery of Foveal Anatomy and Subfoveal Lucency after Pharmacologic and Surgical Macular Hole Closure in the Ocriplasmin Phase III TrialsFrancisco A. Folgar, Glenn J. Jaffe, Cynthia A. Toth, Tamer H. Mahmoud> ;Ophthalmology. Retina. 2017 May 1
- 59 citationsOptical Coherence Tomography Reflective Drusen Substructures Predict Progression to Geographic Atrophy in Age-related Macular Degeneration.Malini Veerappan, Abdul-Karim M. El-Hage-Sleiman, Vincent Tai, Stephanie J. Chiu, KP Winter, Sandra S. Stinnett, Thomas S. Hwang, G. Baker Hubbard, Michelle Michelson,...> ;Ophthalmology. 2016 Dec 1
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Hospital Affiliations
- Roper St. Francis Mount Pleasant HospitalMount Pleasant, South Carolina
- Bon Secours St. Francis HospitalCharleston, South Carolina
Roper HospitalCharleston, South Carolina
