Suffering from cataracts and other vision problems can be really debilitating and uncomfortable. At Beach Eye Medical Group, Irvine we put your vision first and board-certified surgical ophthalmologist (eye doctor) Dr. Shah, is on hand to guide you through your cataract treatment and surgery. Doctor Shah has been repeatedly selected by the Consumer’s Research Council as among “America’s Top Ophthalmologists” as well as being ranked by ´Find a Top Doctor´as a top doctor year upon year.
Dr. Samir Shah has extensive training in cataract surgery and many years experience working as a board-certified ophthalmologist. Having graduated as valedictorian of his college class at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York, Dr. Shah then went on to continue his education at the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor. It was whilst he was a student at the University of Michigan that he was elected by his peers as President of the Medical Student Body. Dr. Shah was chosen to complete his residency at the highly regarded Jules Stein Eye Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
After a successful residency, Dr. Shah was selected to participate in a prestigious and highly sought after fellowship specializing in Cornea, External Disease, and Refractive Surgery at the Wilmer Eye Institute at the world-renowned Johns Hopkins Hospital. The UCLA Medical Center and the Johns Hopkins Hospital have been respectively rated as Best in the Western United States and Best in the United States by US News and World Report for almost 20 consecutive years! Doctor Shah also studied Shakespeare at Oxford University in England.
Doctor Shah has many years of experience working with patients of all ages and ethnic backgrounds to provide outstanding care and treatment. His clinical expertise lies in advanced cataract surgery, laser vision correction, the latest forms of corneal transplantation, and pterygium excision. Dr. Shah works with the latest innovations in cataract surgery treating patients across Orange County and Irvine at the state of the art facilities at Beach Eye Medical group.
Dr. Shah is a widely published expert on the topic of cataract surgery and many other eye problems and his work appears in a variety of books and journals. Because of his expertise and high standards, he has been responsible for training future ophthalmologists in the United States as well as abroad. Dr. Shah’s work also extends to charitable surgeries performed for the Aravind Eye Hospital in South India which helps to provide eye care to some of the most remote and poverty-ridden parts of India.
Doctor Shah is a Diplomate of the American Board of Ophthalmology, a member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, the American Society for Cataract and Refractive Surgery, the Cornea Society, and the California Academy of Eye Physicians and Surgeons.
