Jay Fleischman Email & Phone Number

Dr. Fleischman is Clinical Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He was a systems analyst/programmer at New York’s NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies while he completed his applied math/computer engineering and then medical degrees at Columbia University. He completed his ophthalmology training at the Wilmer Institute, Johns Hopkins and his retina specialty training at the Medical College of Wisconsin. In 1980, Dr. Fleischman became the Director of Retina at the Bethesda Eye Institute, St. Louis University and then served as Director at Montefiore Hospital, Albert Einstein College of Medicine to New York in 1988. Since 1984, Dr. Fleischman has lectured and taught surgery around the world through Project ORBIS (the Flying Eye Hospital), has authored many papers, and holds patents, one pending on a device that will help restore vision to patients with macular degeneration, the leading cause of vision loss after age 55. Of the many surgical devices Dr. Fleischman has invented, the laser endophotocoagulator has become an indispensable tool and a worldwide “standard of care” for advanced surgical retina cases. An expert in diabetes treatment and its complications, in particular diabetic retinopathy, he served as an investigator in The Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCCT), a landmark medical study conducted by the US National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. Dr. Fleischman has consulted for many companies including HGM, Alcon and Mentor and served as an advisor for Dauphin Capital Management and NGN Capital Management. As a Pfizer medical advisor at their Hospital Products Division, he helped them evaluate many innovative medical devices and surgical instruments which served to increase the 1998 sale value of that division. He now serves as an FDA medical device panel member.

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  Retina & Laser Consultants, Llc

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  Columbia University Vagelos College Of Physicians And Surgeons