Avi Solomon, M.D., is a Cornea Specialist, and serves as an Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at the Department of Ophthalmology at the Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center in Jerusalem, Israel. He is affiliated to the Faculty of Medicine at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His field of expertise is Cornea and Refractive Surgery. He had his residency at the Department of Ophthalmology a
t Hadassah Medical Center. He had his fellowship training at the Cornea Service at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in Miami Florida. His main clinical interests include are Cornea and External Eye Diseases, with particular emphasis on ocular surface disorders. In addition he performs refractive surgery. Solomon is performing corneal transplantation for various indications such as keratoconus, corneal edema, corneal scarring and dystrophies. In addition, he has performed complex surgical procedures of ocular surface reconstruction, including limbal stem cell transplantation, amniotic membrane transplantation, symblepharon repair and fornix reconstruction, and pterygium surgery. He has successfully managed patients with the dry eye syndrome, blepharitis, corneal infections, keratoconus, pterygium, as well as challenging cases suffering from severe chemical and thermal burns of the ocular surface, and from severe inflammatory diseases of the cornea and conjunctiva. In addition he has performed multiple refractive surgery procedures, including LASIK, PRK and LASEK, using wavefront-guided treatment, at Hadassah Optimal, the Hadassah Medical Center for laser vision correction. In addition to his clinical interests, Prof. Solomon is conducting basic and clinical research. He has published many articles at the leading peer-reviewed journals in Ophthalmology. He has tutored many research students for MD thesis and the doctoral level at his laboratory, located at the Hadassah Medical Center. In addition he had served as the head of the Ophthalmology Program for Medical Students at the Faculty of Medicine at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Currently he is the Chairman of the Israeli Cornea Society at the Israeli Ophthalmological Association, and the Chairman of the Israeli Society for Vision and Eye Research (ISVER).