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Paul S. Koch, M.D.
Dr. Koch is a Founder and the
Medical Director of Koch Eye Associates. His specialty is Cataract,
Lens Implantation, and Refractive Surgery. Dr. Koch has been
named one of the Top 100 Ophthalmologists and one of the Top
15 Cataract Surgeons in North America by Ophthalmology Times.
He has been cited in each issue of the Best Doctors in America.
He has won many awards including the Mericos H. Whittier Foundation's
Lifetime Achievement Award, the American Academy of Ophthalmology's
Honor Award, the David Kelman Foundation's Golden Hands Award,
the Irish-American Ophthalmology Society's Top-Gun Phaco Award,
the Hoffer Award and the International Film Festival of the American
Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgery Award. He was in
the inaugural group of inductees into the Bishop Hendricken High
School Hall of Fame.
Dr. Koch has written seven textbooks
on eye surgery, six of them about cataract surgery, which are
the standard reading materials for residency programs in the
U.S. and abroad. He has also authored a book about corneal refractive
surgery and written many journal articles, book chapters, and
specialty editorials. Presently, he is editing the first textbook
on refractive lens implants for myopia and hyperopia.
He has helped popularize many
advances in cataract surgery, including techniques that permit
surgery to be performed comfortably without anesthetic injections,
and with vision recovery beginning only a few minutes after the
operation is completed. In addition, Dr. Koch was one of the
first refractive surgeons in America performing keratomileusis
in 1979, keratophakia in 1980, and radial keratotomy in 1983.
He has also had radial keratotomy himself.
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