Gholam A. Peyman
Academic
1937 –
Who is Gholam A. Peyman?
Gholam A. Peyman, MD recipient of National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the nation’s highest honor for technological achievement, bestowed by the President of the United States, President Obama, on America's leading innovators and a Hall of Fame of Ophthalmology and retina surgeon who is also a prolific and successful inventor. Gholam Peyman has, thus far, been granted 142 US Patents covering a broad range of novel medical devices, intra-ocular drug delivery, surgical techniques, as well as new methods of diagnosis and treatment. His most widely known invention to date is LASIK eye surgery, a vision correction procedure designed to allow people to see clearly without glasses. He was awarded the first US patent for the procedure in 1989. In addition to the numerous other honors and awards he has received, in 2005 he was selected by a ballot among the more than 30,000 ophthalmologists around the world to become one of the thirteen living ophthalmologists inducted into the Hall of Fame of Ophthalmology.
⁕Dr. Peyman's CV
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- Born
- 1937
Iran - Also known as
- Gholam Peyman
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg
- Lived in
- Phoenix
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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