OnDemand - Visiting Professor - January 2023 - Featuring Majid Moshirfar, MD [Non-CME]

Note: This OnDemand activity does not provide CME credit.

Visiting Professor Lecture - January 2022 - Recorded on January 11, 2023
Featuring Majid Moshirfar, Jr., MD

Affiliations: Hoopes Vision Research Center
Residency: Ophthalmology, 1996, University of Illinois Eye and Ear Hospital

Dr. Majid Moshirfar is a board-certified ophthalmologist and fellowship-trained cornea specialist.  He is the Clinical Director of Hoopes Vision Research Center and the director of The Utah Cornea Fellowship.  Dr. Moshirfar brings a strong background in clinical research, and a prolific legacy of academic teaching, publishing, and speaking.  Immediately before joining Hoopes Vision, Dr. Moshirfar spent 1 year as Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of California, San Francisco.  Prior to that appointment, Dr. Moshirfar served on the faculty of the University of Utah’s John A. Moran Eye Center for 18 years, including 16 as the Director of Cornea and Refractive Surgery, and established and Directed the John A. Moran Fellowship, training 38 fellows.

Dr. Moshirfar earned his medical degree from the Georgetown University School of Medicine with Alpha Omega Alpha recognition.  He completed his ophthalmology residency at Illinois Eye and Ear Hospital in Chicago, where during his final year, he received Best Resident Award.  This was followed by a two-year fellowship with emphasis on cornea and external disease, refractive surgery, and anterior segment reconstruction at the John A. Moran Eye Center.

Dr. Moshirfar specializes in refractive surgeries such as LASIK, PRK, and ICL, as well as cornea transplantation, keratoprosthesis (artificial cornea), management of difficult corneal disorders, complicated cataract extraction, keratoconus, infectious eye disease and other complex procedures of the cornea and anterior segment of the eye.  Dr. Moshirfar has authored over 400 peer-reviewed scientific publications and serves on the editorial boards of over 12 scientific journals.

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