Cornea, Anterior Segment, and Refractive Surgery Fellowship
Program Overview
The Cornea, Anterior Segment, and Refractive Surgery Fellowship provides comprehensive subspecialty training in the medical and surgical management of corneal and anterior segment diseases, drawing on the expertise of Columbia faculty members. Fellows gain advanced experience in corneal transplantation, cataract and refractive surgery, and the diagnosis and treatment of complex corneal disorders. The fellowship takes place at the Edward S. Harkness Eye Institute at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, where fellows work closely with our corneal faculty in a high-volume tertiary referral setting. One fellow is selected annually through SF Match.
Curriculum Highlights
The Cornea fellowship is under the preceptorship of Drs. George Florakis, Jerry Hsu, Gabriel Rand, Leejee Suh and Danielle Trief.
The fellowship emphasizes broad exposure to both common and complex anterior segment cases, including:
- Corneal transplantation (PK, DSAEK, DMEK, Keratoprosthesis)
- Cataract and refractive surgery
- Ocular surface and external disease management
- Keratoconus and corneal crosslinking
- Refractive surgery
- Advanced diagnostics such as corneal topography and tomography, anterior segment optical coherence tomography, anterior segment ultrasound, wavescan technology, confocal microscopy, and specular microscopy