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.
 

Roberto D. Cavalieros, M.D.

Dr. Roberto Cavalieros is a cataract and refractive surgery specialist who has been with Koch Eye Associates since November of 1999. Prior to joining the staff, he spent a year with an international non-profit organization, ORBIS, teaching new surgical techniques, treating patients, and performing consultations in more than eight developing countries.

Dr. Cavalieros received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Florida in Gainesville. He received his M.D. in 1993 from the University of Florida College of Medicine. After completing an internship at the University of New Mexico affiliated hospitals in Albuquerque, he did his residency at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary in Manhattan. He is a member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, and the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons.