I am Prof. Avi Solomon. I am a Cornea and Refractive Surgery specialist, and I serve as an Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at the Department of Ophthalmology at the Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center in Jerusalem, Israel. I am affiliated to the Faculty of Medicine at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.My field of expertise is Cornea and Refractive Surgery. I had my residency at the Department of Ophthalmology at Hadassah Medical Center. I had my fellowship training at the Cornea Service at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in Miami, Florida. My main clinical interests include Cornea and External Eye Diseases, with particular emphasis on ocular surface disorders and ocular surfacesurgery. In addition I perform refractive surgery.I perform corneal transplantation for various indications such as keratoconus, corneal edema, corneal scarring and dystrophies. I also have a lot of experience in Corneal Cross Linking for Keratoconus, including children who need that procedure. In addition, I have performed complex surgical procedures of ocular surface reconstruction, including limbal stem cell transplantation, amniotic membrane transplantation, symblepharon repair and fornix reconstruction, and pterygium surgery. I have a lot of experience in managing 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 I have performed in the past 20 years multiple refractive surgery procedures, including LASIK, PRK and LASEK, using wavefront-guided treatment, at the Hadassah Medical Center for laser vision correction.In addition to my clinical interests, I am interested in basic and clinical research. I have published many articles at the leading peer-reviewed journals in Ophthalmology. I teach medical students during their Ophthalmology rotation at the 5th year of their Medical School studies. I have tutored many research students for their MD thesis and at the doctoral level. In addition I have served as the head of the Ophthalmology Program for Medical Students at the Faculty of Medicine at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. I had served as Chairman of the Israeli Cornea Society at the Israeli Ophthalmological Association, as Chairman of the Israeli Society for Vision and Eye Research (ISVER), and as the chairman of the Israeli Refractive Surgery Society.