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Prof. Avi Solomon

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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 surface surgery, and refractive surgery.

Click below to watch a lecture on advanced corneal imaging given via Zoom during a web-based conference of Russian and Israeli Ophthalmologists held in Moscow as part of an on-going collaboration with Hadassah:

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 over the past 20 years multiple refractive surgery procedures, including LASIK, PRK, LASEK and femtosecond-assisted LASIK ("Intralasik") using Wavefront-Guided treatment, at our Laser Vision Correction centers affiliated with Hadassah Medical Center (currently called "Ein-Tal Hadassah").

Prof. Avi Solomon

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 at my laboratory, located at the Hadassah Medical Center. 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 in several leading positions in Israeli Ophthalmology, including as Chairman of the Israeli Cornea Group of the Israeli Ophthalmological Society, Chairman of the Israeli Society for Vision and Eye Research (ISVER), Chairman of the Israeli Refractive Group, Head of the Optometry program at the Hadassah Academic College, and Head of the Ophthalmology teaching program for medical students at the Hadassah-Hebrew University Faculty of Medicine.

carnit.co.il

Carnit.co.il is my personal web site. "Carnit" means Cornea in Hebrew. It is designed to provide basic and easy to read information on the structure and function of the eye, with emphasis on the cornea and the tissues of the anterior segment of the eye. The major diseases that can involve the cornea and the ocular surface are explained, including their symptoms, signs, and the different options for treatment. A large section is devoted to laser refractive surgery. The text is written in an easy to read format, and is accompanied with many color illustrations. A special forum of questions from the audience and my answers to them at the bottom of each page provides further timely information on various diseases and their management, thus enabling direct communication with patients, and keeps this site lively and interactive.

Additional web resources

You Tube – On my You Tube channel you can watch my surgical videos of selected procedures.

Facebook – You can see my patients and communicate with me at my professional page in Facebook.

Linkedin – You can also visit my Linkedin page.

Contact Information 

Prof. Avi Solomon can be reached through this website, by filling in the form at the bottom of each page.

For additional information on the International Patients Services at Hadassah click here, or call +972-2-6778555.

For direct appointments at the Hadassah Medical Center Private Consultation Services ("Sharap") please call +972-2-6778899.

For appointments for screening prior to laser vision correction surgery please call +972-50-6398873.