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Alireza Ghaffarieh, MD

Specialties

  • Cataracts
  • Cornea
  • General Ophthalmology
  • Refractive

Office Locations

Acuity Eye Group - Brawley
116 N. Plaza
Brawley, CA 92227
760.344.4330

Acuity Eye Group - El Centro
1420 Ocotillo Dr.
Suite D
El Centro, CA 92243
760.353.1154

Acuity Eye Group - La Quinta
47-474 Washington St
La Quinta, CA 92253
760.469.5213

Acuity Eye Group - Palm Desert
44139 Monterey Ave.
Suite A
Palm Desert, CA 92260
760.469.5195

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Alireza Ghaffarieh, M.D specializes in corneal transplants, refractive surgery, cataract surgery, and external eye diseases with a primary interest in Refractive and Premium cataract surgery.

Ghaffarieh comes after serving as an advanced clinical cornea and refractive surgery fellow at Massachusetts Eye and Ear, home to the world’s largest vision research center and a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School in Boston. He also served as an assistant professor of Ophthalmology at the Jones Eye Institute, UAMS, and director of cornea and refractive surgery at Gulf Coast Eye Institute in Texas.

Ghaffarieh graduated in the top 1% of his class from Shiraz University and earned his medical degree in 1996. After completing his ophthalmology residency in 2002, Ghaffarieh received additional training in keratoprosthetic surgery at Fyodorov Eye Institute and visual rehabilitation at Krasnov Center, both located in Moscow.

Additionally, he completed three research fellowships in neuro-ophthalmology and ocular pathology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and cytopathology at the University of Southern California.

Along with 26 years of medical experience, Ghaffarieh has multiple affiliations as a researcher and scientist working in various biomechanical and biomedical engineering departments and institutes.

He has authored more than 40 journal articles and three book chapters, in addition to serving on the editorial board and as a reviewer for several ophthalmology journals. He is an inventor and holds one full and six provisional U.S. patents.

Dr. Ghaffarieh is fluent in English, Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Azerbaijani and basic Spanish.

 

Languages Spoken

  • English
  • Arabic