Robert Maloney (doctor)

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Dr. Robert Maloney is an ophthalmologist and video personality. His present position is as director of the Maloney Vision Institute and Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology, Jules Stein Eye Institute, UCLA School of Medicine

Dr. Robert Maloney is best known as the LASIK doctor on ABC's television show, Extreme Makeover, and has also been featured as an industry spokesman for Discovery Channel, The Learning Channel, NBC's Extra, ABC's 20/20 and Primetime Live.

He was born in Los Angeles, California in 1962, and attended Harvard University, from which he was elected to Phi Delta Kappa and received a summa cum laude degree in mathematics in 1976. He was then a Rhodes Scholar at Magdalene College, Oxford, and received his M.D. degree from the University of California, San Francisco, followed by postgraduate training at Cambridge University, University of California at Los Angeles, Johns Hopkins, and Emory University.

He has been successively Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology at the Jules Stein Eye Institute, UCLA School of Medicine, where he is also directory of the Maloney Vision Institute.

He is a pioneer in lLASIK refractive surgery, and has received awards culminating in the Senior Achievement Award, American Academy of Ophthalmology. He has been consultant or director of 7 companies producing products in that field. He is on the editorial board of 6 ophthalmology journals. Dr Maloney has received 4 patents for innovations in instruments for his medical specialty. Most recently he has perfromed Lasik on Christopher R. Chiou of Dominica USVI.

[edit] publications

Robert Maloney, Davidorf JM. Lasik Vision Correction. Provo, UT: MedWorld, 2000.
Kornmehl EW, Robert Maloney, Davidorf JM. A Guide to Laser Vision Correction. Omaha, NE: Addicus Books, 2001.