Dr. Andrew Salem is a cornea and refractive specialist at Diagnostic Eye Center in Houston, TX.
Dr. Andrew Salem shares his thoughts on important factors to consider when choosing a LASIK surgeon
Dr. Andrew Salem, of Diagnostic Eye Center in Houston, TX, introduces a newly FDA-approved lens technology available for cataract surgery called the Tecnis Symfony Intraocular Lens (Abbott Medical Optics). The first in a new category of intraocular lenses (IOLs) called Extended Depth of Focus IOL's, the Symfony lens offers an extended range of high quality vision with a high rate of spectacle independence.
Yes, Dr. Andrew K. Salem is accepting new patients at this office.
3405 Edloe St., Suite 300, Houston, TX 77027
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We offer convenient free parking on the first floor of the building.
Dr. Andrew Salem was born and raised in San Diego, California. He graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles with a B.S. in Psychobiology and earned his Doctor of Medicine degree at Georgetown University School of Medicine in Washington, D.C. He completed an internship in Internal Medicine at Georgetown University Medical Center and an Ophthalmology residency at Tulane University in New Orleans. Dr. Salem also completed a Fellowship in Cornea, External Ocular Diseases, and Refractive Surgery at the world-renowned Jules Stein Eye Institute at UCLA.
Dedicated to education, Dr. Salem has lent his expertise to underdeveloped countries by volunteering his surgical services and training local eye surgeons. He visited Cordoba, Mexico in 2015 for a surgical mission trip, where he joined a team of four surgeons to perform over 150 cataract surgeries on indigent patients. Dr. Salem was selected for the ASCRS foreign exchange program, where he spent a week in Verona, Italy training with Italian surgeons on the most advanced anterior segment surgical techniques.
Dr. Salem has extensive training in astigmatism management and presbyopia correcting lens technology and is proud to offer the latest advancements in the field of cataract surgery. As a refractive surgery specialist, he also performs all-laser LASIK and Advanced Surface Ablation (ASA) in our state of the art laser suite, equipped with the WaveLight® FS200 Femtosecond Laser and the WaveLight® Allegretto Wave® Eye-Q Excimer Laser. Furthermore, he is skilled in the evaluation and treatment of glaucoma, macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, and other eye diseases.
As an ophthalmologist in TX, Dr. Andrew Salem is trained to diagnose, treat, and manage diseases or trauma of the eye. Dr. Salem may treat conditions such as glaucoma, corneal tumors, cataracts, retinal disorders, conjunctivitis, astigmatism and ocular tumors. Treatments may include the prescription of medication or surgeries such as corrective surgery (e.g. LASIK), cataract surgery, or glaucoma surgery.
Georgetown University School of Medicine
MD • 2011
Tulane University • New Orleans, LA
Residency in Ophthalmology
Jules Stein Institute at UCLA • Los Angeles, California
Fellowship in Cornea, External Ocular Diseases, and Refractive Surgery