Dr. Smith is a board certified, fellowship trained ophthalmologist who practices comprehensive ophthalmology, as well as neuro-ophthalmology. He performs and teaches small incision cataract surgery, refractive cataract surgery, pterygium excision with graft, penetrating keratoplasty and most anterior segment reconstructive procedures. Dr. Smith is a founding partner of Downstate Ophthalmology Associates in Park Slope, and is the Chief of Ophthalmology at Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center. For the past 22 academic years, his career has involved teaching residents ophthalmic surgery, and he has functioned as Director of the Department of Veterans Affairs at NY Harbor Brooklyn VA Hospital for the past ten years. Dr. Smith has had the good fortune of being involved in educating all of the graduating SUNY Downstate ophthalmology residents, both in the operating room and the clinic, and is proud to say that many have gone on to become national leaders in the ophthalmic community.
Dr. Smith has been included in Best Doctors in New York Magazine (1991), Castle Connolly Best Doctors in New York (1999-2011) as well as New York Times Superdoctors (2008-2011).
Dr. Berg specializes in ophthalmic plastic and reconstructive surgery, in which he is fellowship trained. His SUNY Downstate clinical and teaching activities are focused primarily at University Hospital of Brooklyn and the Brooklyn VA. His current clinical and research interests include pterygium excision with free conjunctival graft, dermoid and epidermoid tumors of the orbit, familial euryblepharon and megaloblepharon, and the use of CO2 laser in congenital lymphangioma involving the orbit.
Dr. Berg also has a hospital appointment at Kingsbrook Hospital Center. He is president of SUNY Downstate Ophthalmology Alumni, and director of its scientific symposium. Dr. Berg graduated with his medical degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and completed residency training at the Hospital University of Pennsylvania/SUNY Downstate Medical Center.
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