About Dr. David D. Richardson
Dr. D. Richardson, MD
Choosing your eye doctor is one of the most important decisions you will make in your life. With Dr. David D. Richardson, MD, you are not only getting a highly skilled surgeon, but a trusted physician as well. Here are some of the many reasons why thousands of people trust Dr. Richardson with their eyes, and why you should too.
Experience
Just like a sports pro, a surgeon’s abilities improve with practice and experience. Every surgeon requires a minimum number of “cases” to become proficient. Dr. Richardson has had may years of clinical experience and has performed thousands of eye surgeries using the most advanced techniques.
Specialty
Dr. David Richardson is the among a select group of ophthalmologists in California offering Canaloplasty as a treatment option for his glaucoma patients. Besides being a skilled cataract surgeon, he is among a select group in the state trained as an interventional ophthalmologist. Like interventional cardiologists skilled in using catheter technology to open clogged arteries with angioplasty and stents in the heart, interventional ophthalmologists are eye specialists trained in performing Canaloplasty using similar micro-catheter technology to open and stent the natural filtration canal in the eye (Schlemm’s Canal). This canal controls the natural fluid pressure and filtration inside the eye. If compromised, it may become the root cause of primary open angle glaucoma (POAG). Dr. Richardson is among an elite group of glaucoma doctors in the country performing the highly specialized canaloplasty procedure.“
Dr. David D. Richardson, MD not only performs canaloplasty, he also teaches other surgeons how to do so. As one of the leading canaloplasty surgeons he regularly gives talks at the national meetings of eye surgeons. As part of his quest to make this safer glaucoma surgery available to glaucoma patients throughout the world, he is often asked to fly out to teach individual doctors how best to incorporate canaloplasty into their practices. Dr. Richardson was recently included among a panel of respected glaucoma surgeons whose goal was to find ways to make it easier for other eye surgeons to learn how to perform canaloplasty. You can read what this panel had to say here.
Reputation
In a series of surveys, medical professionals were asked a simple question: “If you needed medical care, which doctor would you choose?” Based on the results of these surveys, Dr. Richardson was named a “Super Doctor” by his peers in the Los Angeles Magazine in 2010 & 2011. In a similar survey conducted by Pasadena Magazine, Dr. Richardson was also voted as a “Top Doc” for the past 3 consecutive years (2008 ,2009 and 2010). Actions, though, speak louder than words – Dr. Richardson is the personal eye surgeon for many of the most respected doctors in the San Gabriel valley. If, throughout the years, other medical professionals trust Dr. Richardson with their own medical care, why shouldn’t you?
Distinguished Academic Career
After graduating with top honors from the University of Southern California (USC), Dr. Richardson received the prestigious Phi Beta Kappa Scholarship to attend Harvard Medical School. While in medical school, he accepted the Howard Hughes research fellowship at the National Institutes of Health to study visual cognition. Dr. Richardson then completed an internal medicine internship at Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena, which was followed by ophthalmology training at LAC+USC/Doheny Eye Institute in Los Angeles – one of the top ophthalmology residencies in the country.
A highly regarded, accomplished surgeon, Dr. Richardson is also a diplomat of the American Board of Ophthalmology.
Education and training
- B.S., University of Southern California (USC)
- M.D., Harvard Medical School
- Research Fellowship, National Institutes of Health
- Preliminary Internal Medicine Residency, Huntington Memorial Hospital
- Ophthalmology Residency, LAC+USC Medical Center
Honors and awards
- Harvard Linnane Scholar
- Harvard National Scholar
- Hughes National Fellowship
- Magna Cum Laude Graduate
- Phi Beta Kappa Graduate Scholarship
- Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society
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Disclosure: As one of the first Interventional Ophthalmologists, Dr. Richardson is regularly asked to teach other doctors how to perform canaloplasty. When he takes time away from his patients and family to perform these duties, iScience pays him for his work. No payment is ever made to Dr. Richardson for using the iTrack microcatheter and the only reimbursement he receives for performing canaloplasty is from insurance or his patients.
