Bruce Koffler MD

Dr. Bruce H. Koffler grew up in Brooklyn, New York and graduated from Brooklyn College. He attended Georgetown University School of Medicine in Washington, D.C. and completed his internship, residency, as well his fellowship in Corneal Transplants and Infectious Eye Disease at the Georgetown Center for Sight. He began his academic career in 1979 and became an Associate Professor at the University of Kentucky where he taught for four years. During that time, he established the University of Kentucky Lions Eye Bank. In 1983, Dr. Koffler opened his private practice, the Koffler Vision Group. He specializes in Corneal diseases, Corneal Transplants, Cataract Surgery, LASIK, Glaucoma, Orthokeratology, Myopia Control, Contact Lenses, and Infectious Diseases of the eye. Koffler Vision Group operated a Dry Eye Center and Clinical Research Institute. Dr. Koffler serves as a Past President of the International Medical Contact Lens Council (IMCLC) and helps to organize symposium for the World Ophthalmology Congress {WOC). He also serves as the International Director for the Eye and Contact Lens Association {ECLA) and is a Board member for the American Association of Orthokeratology and Myopia Control and the International Academy of Orthokeratology and Myopia Control. He travels nationally and internationally for various speaking engagements for the organizations he represents. Dr. Koffler was honored by his peers as the “Best Doctor in America” designation and recently awarded the "Senior Leadership Award” by the American Academy of Ophthalmology” and the “Fick-Kalt- Muller” research award from the ECLSO society. The first non-European to be presented this honor. Currently he is a Consultant for the Ophthalmic Industry in the areas of Vision Care and Myopia Control.