Dr. Elias F. Jarade

Dr. Elias F. Jarade is a graduate of Harvard Medical School with 2 certificates of fellowship in cornea and refractive surgery from the Eye Center and Eye Foundation for Research, and The Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA. Dr. Elias is heavily involved in the practice and research of cornea and refractive surgery and cornea transplant and he has to his record more than 50 scientific internationally peer reviewed papers and chapters. Dr. Elias performed more than 10,000 refractive surgeries and he pioneered the new methods of accurate corneal power measurement after LASIK surgery (Jarade’s formula) and the development of news refractive surgery technique (IntraLase assisted IC-LASIK) for the correction of high myopia. Also, he discovered and published a new treatment for a blinding complication after LASIK (Grade IV DLK). In addition, Dr. Elias is a pioneer in keratoconus treatment and he is the founder of the new concept of mathematical analysis of corneal remodeling and new nomogram for ring implantation in keratoconus.

International affiliation:

• International Board Member for the Journal of Refractive Surgery
• County liaison and regional representative of “Tear fil and Ocular Surface Society “TFOS”
• Expert board member of the International Journal of Ophthalmology
• Guest editor for a special issue of the Journal of Ophthalmology (current concept in corneal collagen crosslinking)
• Lead Guest editor for a special issue of Bio Med Journal (New treatment modalities for the treatment of keratoconus)
• International Advisory Board for the Saudi Journal of Ophthalmology
• Founder of the Emirates Cornea and Refractive Surgery (ECRS) club