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Dr. Sharif
Dr. Khaled Sharif is an
internationally renowned eye surgeon who is the founder and medical
director of the Sharif Eye Centers
Medical Group Inc.; a professional corporation dedicated to
providing world-class laser vision correction procedures as well as
comprehensive multi-subspecialty eye care in various cities in the
Middle East.
He completed
his residency and fellowship training in Great Britain where he
worked as an eye surgeon for ten years. He was the first eye surgeon
to perform LASIK procedures in Jordan more than 15 years ago. He was
also the pioneer in introducing Implantable contact lens surgery as
well as laser cataract surgery and lately the first IntraLASIK
procedures in Jordan.
He published a
prize winning textbook on corneal diseases in Great Britain in 1992,
as well as over one hundred papers and presentations in European and
American medical journals.
Consultant,
Ophthalmologist and Corneal Surgery Specialist.
Director of
Cornea and Refractive Surgery Services.
In 1989,
Dr. Sharif received a fellowship
degree from the Royal college of Surgeons in Glasgow, UK
specializing in eye surgery. Furthermore, in 1990, he received a
fellowship degree from the Royal College of Ophthalmologists in
London.
In 1991, he
moved to Amman, Jordan where he was appointed Assoc. Professor of
Ophthalmology at Jordan University Hospital, Faculty of Medicine,
Director of Ophthalmology at the Residency Training Program, as well
as, being the first surgeon to establish specialized clinics for
“Corneal Surgery" at Jordan University Hospital.
Dr. Sharif has published many articles
on the “Diagnosis and Management of Eye Diseases”; including a
textbook on “Corneal Diseases” which was nominated as the best
medical book in Great Britain by the Society of British Authors in
1991.
Dr. Sharif has been invited by many
countries in the Middle East to give training courses on Eye Laser
Surgery (PRK, LASIK, & IntraLASIK) to local optometrists and medical
doctors. In 1996, he was invited as a visiting professor to speak
and lecture on this same subject at the New York Eye and Ear
Infirmary .
- Award
for Excellence in the Field of Medicine and Eye Surgery
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Presented by his Majesty King Abdullah II of Jordan – 2003
- Man of
the Year Award - Jordan Television - 1996
- Winner
of Ophthalmology Diagnosis Competition (UK)
- GLAXO
Prize for the “Best Medical Atlas” published in Britain by the
Society of British Authors in 1991.
- Fellow
of the Royal College of Surgeons of Glasgow (FRCS)
- Fellow
of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists - London
- Member
of the American Academy of Ophthalmology - San Francisco
- Member
of the International Society of Refractive Surgery
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Visiting Professor in Clinical Ophthalmology - New York Eye and
Ear Infirmary - New York (1996)
- Member
of the Examining Board for the Fellowship of the Royal College
of Surgeons (FRCS) in Glasgow since 2001.
- Member
of the Editorial Board of the Following International Medical
Journals:
- Archives of Ophthalmology (USA).
- Middle East Journal of Ophthalmology.
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CASEY, TA.
and SHARIF, K.W.
Atlas of Corneal Dystrophies and Degenerations
Wolfe Medical Publications Ltd., London, Mosby Year Book Inc.,
U.S.A.
- Published November, 1991
- Nominated for the (GLAXO MEDICAL PRIZE, 1992) by the Society
of British Authors
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SHARIF,
K.W., DOIG, M., KINSELLA, F.
Visual Impairment in Juvenile Paget's Disease with Pseudo-Xanthoma
Elsaticum
Journal of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus, USA published
November 1989; 229-30
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SHARIF,
K.W. and CASEY, TA
Penetrating Keratoplasti for Keratinous; complications and long
term success
British Journal of Ophthalmology 1991, 75, 142-146
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SHARIF,
K.W., McGee, C.N.I., TOMLINSON, R. C. K.
Ocular Trauma caused by Airgun Pellets; ten year survey
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SHARIF,
K.W., ARAFAT, A. WYKES, W
The Treatment of Recurrent Tirchiasis with Argon Laser
Photocoagulation
EYE (1991) 5, 591 - 595
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SHARIF,
K.W.
Ocular Infections during Infancy and Childhood - Jordanian
Pediatric Bulletin (1992), vol.3, 3-6
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SHARIF,
K.W. and CASEY, TA. HOE, W
Penetrating Keratoplasty for Bilateral Acute Corneal
Calcification Cornea – USA 1992
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SHARIF,
K.W. , CASEY TA, COLTART D.J.
The Prevalence of Mitral Valve Prolapsed in Keratinous patients
Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, (1992 ), 85 446-448
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Doppler
Ultrasound in determining the site of Temporal Artery Biopsy in
suspected Giant Cell Arthritis
Presented at Walton Conference Center, Southern General
Hospital, Glasgow - January 1989
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Traumatic
Pigment Epithelial Tear
Presented at Moorefield’s Eye Hospital , London - February 1988
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Unusual
Ocular presentation of Internal Carotid Artery Aneurysm
Presented at the Tenant Institute of Ophthalmology, Glasgow -
April 1988
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Ocular
Injuries related to Airgun Pellets
Presented at the Scottish Ophthalmology Club Conference, Glasgow
- October 1989
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Management
of a case of Unilateral Proptosis
Presented at the American Wing Post-Graduate Centre, Queen
Victoria Hospital
East Grinstead, Sussex - February 1990
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Acanthamoeba Keratitis - Diagnosis and Management
Presented at the American Wing Post-Graduate Centre, Queen
Victoria Hospital
East Grinstead, Sussex - September 1990
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The
Changing Indications of Penetrating Keratoplasty (1971-1990)
Presented at the Annual Congress of the College of
Ophthalmologists (U.K) London
April 1992 published in EYE (1993) 7, 485 -488
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Subepithelial Flexion Striae; A New Sign of Advanced Terrien's
Marginal Degeneration
Presented at the Annual Congress of the College of
Ophthalmologists, London – April 1992
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Penetrating Keratoplasty for Corneal Dystrophies and
Degenerations
Presented at the Cornea Symposium at the Royal Society of
Medicine, London - April 1993
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Penetrating Keratoplasty in Infants and Children
Presented at the Pan Arab Council of Ophthalmology Conference;
Marrakesh 1995
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Photorefractive Keratectomy for Myopia and Astigmatism
Results for the first 100 cases - presented at the Pan Arab
Council of Ophthalmology Conference; Marrakesh 1995
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Photorefractive Keratectomy and LASIK for Myopia and Astigmatism
Results for the first 1,000 cases - presented as a Visiting
Professor at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary
New York - September 1996
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Indications and results of PRK using the NIDEK EC-5000 Excimer
Laser System
Presented at the Refractive Surgery Symposium –The Sheraton
Hotel, Abu Dhabi UAE - June 1996
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Recent
Advances in Ophthalmology - towards the year 2000
Presented at the Telemedicine Symposium at I.H.H. Amman, Jordan
- November 1996
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The
Hormonal Effect of Pregnancy on Wound Healing Post - PRK
Presented at the NIDEK International Excimer Laser Users Meeting
Aswan, Egypt - 1996
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Corneal
Disasters - Herpes Simplex Endotheliitis in Corneal Transplant
Presented at the Pan Arab Council of Ophthalmology International
Conference Amman, Jordan - May 1997
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SHARIF, K.W. - Regression of Myopia induced by Pregnancy after
Photorefractive Keratectomy
Journal of Refractive Surgery (1997) vol. 13 (suppl.) S447-S448
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SHARIF,
K.W. - Photorefractive Keratectomy for Myopia and Astigmatism
Results for the first 1000 cases - Journal of Refractive Surgery
(1997) vol. 13 (suppl.) S470
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(Ophthalmology in the 21st Century, expected Advances in the
Next decade)
Presented at WORLD CARE GLOBAL TELEMEDICINE SYMPOSIUM Amman
Dec.1997.
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"AN EYE TO
THE FUTURE " -
Presented at the American University of Beirut Aluman Club
Meeting, Amman, Feb.1998.
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Long-Term results of my first one thousand LASIK Procedures -
Presented at the First international congress of the Arab
Ophthalmic Association meeting of Dubai, April 1998.
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LASIK For
Hyperopia ,
Presented at the CHIRON-TECHNOLAS USERS GROUP CONFERENCE,EGYPT,
FEB.1999
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Overview
of Eye care in Jordan,
Presented at the (Ophthalmology in the Middle East Symposium) at
the AAO Convention- New Orleans, Oct.1999.
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LASIK
Following Penetating Keratoplasty
(Presented at the LASIK Symposium) Cairo, Egypt, Feb.2000.
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Overview
of LASIK MicroKeratomes,
presented at the Refractive Surgery Symposium , Beirut ,
Lebanon, Sept.2000
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H.M.Queen Rania Launches Our Clinic
Dr Khaled Sharif is an
internationally recognized corneal surgeon who was the first ophthalmologist to perform
PRK and LASIK procedures in Jordan.
He is currently
Member of the American Academy
of Ophthalmology (San Francisco).
Member of the Examination Board
of the Jordanian General Medical Council.
Member of the editorial board of
the Middle East Journal of ophthalmology.
Member of the International
Council of the International Society of Refractive Surgery, USA.
Dr. Khaled Sharif Biography
Consultant ophthalmologist and corneal surgery specialist. Director of cornea and
refractive surgery services, I. H. Hospital, Amman, Jordan.
He specialized in eye surgery in Britain where he obtained the degree fellowship of the
Royal College of Surgeons of Glasgow in 1988 and then the
fellowship of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists of London in 1990.
He started practicing ophthalmology in Amman in 1991 where he was appointed as Ass.
Professor of ophthalmology at the faculty of Medicine, Jordan University.
He was the first surgeon to establish specialized clinics in corneal surgery at Jordan
University Hospital, where he also served as the director of the residency-training
program in ophthalmology.
He was the first eye doctor to introduce corneal laser surgery to Jordan in 1993 and since
then he has performed countless numbers of procedures (PRK, LASIK)
for myopia and astigmatism.
He has published many papers on the diagnosis and management of eye diseases in addition
to a text book on corneal diseases that was nominated
for the best medical book published in Britain in 1991.
He has been invited by many countries in the Middle East to give training courses for the
local doctors on eye laser surgery (PRK & LASIK).
He also gave lectures on this subject at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, where he was
invited as a visiting professor in 1996.
RESEARCH, PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
1. CASEY, T.A. and SHARIF, K.W.
Atlas of corneal Dystrophies and Degenerations.
Wolfe Medical Publications Ltd., London, Mosby Year Book Inc., U.S.A.
-Published November, 1991
-Nominated for the (GLAXO MEDICAL PRIZE, 1992) by the society of British Authors.
2.SHARIF, K.W., DOIG, M.,
KINSELLA, F.
Visual Impairment in Juvenile Paget's disease with pseudo-xanthoma
elsaticum. Journal of Paediatric ophthalmology and Strabismus, (USA)
published November 1989; 229-302.
3.SHARIF, K.W., and CASEY, T.A.
Penetrating keratoplasty for keratoconus; complications and long term
success. British Journal of ophthalmology 1991, 75, 142-146.
4.SHARIF, K.W., McGHEE, C.N.I., TOMLINSON,
R. C. K.
Ocular trauma caused by airgun pellets; A ten year survey. EYE (Published:
1990. 4,885 -860).
5.SHARIF, K.W., ARAFAT, A. WYKES,
W
The treatment of Recurrent Tirchiasis with Argon laser photocoagulation.
EYE (1991) 5, 591 - 595.
6.SHARIF, K.W., Ocular Infections
during Infancy and childhood.
Jordanian Paediatric Bulletin, (1992), Vol.3, 3-6.
7.SHARIF, K.W., and CASEY, T. A.,
HOE, W
Penetrating keratoplasty for bilateral acute corneal calcification. Cornea
(USA) (1992).
8.SHARIF, K.W., CASEY T. A.,
COLTART D.J., The Prevalence of Mitral Valve Prolapse in keratoconus patients. Journal of
the Royal society of Medicine, (1992) , 85 446-448.
9.Doppler Ultrasound in determining the site
of temporal artery biopsy in suspected Giant Cell Arteritis.
Presented at Walton Conference Center, Southern General Hospital, Glasgow
-January 1989.
10.Traumatic Pigment Epithelial
tear. Presented at Moorfields Eye Hospital, London - February 1988.
11.Unusual ocular presentation of Internal
carotid artery neurysm.
Presented at the Tennent Institute of ophthalmology,Glasgow - April 1988.
12.Ocular injuries related to airgun pellets
- A ten year survey.
Presented at the Scottish ophthalmology Club Conference, Glasgow - October 1989.
13.Management of a case of Unilateral
Proptosis.
Presented at American Wing Postgraduate Centre, Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead,
Sussex - February 1990.
14.Acanthamoeba Keratitis - Diagnosis and
Management.
Presented at American Wing Postgraduate Centre, Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead,
Sussex - September 1990.
15.The changing Indications of Penetrating
keratoplasty (1971 -1990)
Presented at the annual congress of the college of ophthalmologists (U.K) London - April
1992. Published in EYE (1993), 7, 485 -488.
16.Subepithelial flexion striae; A new sign
of advanced Terrien's Marginal degeneration, Presented at the annual congress of the
college of ophthalmologists, London - April, 1992.
17.Penetrating keratoplasty for corneal
dystrophies and degenerations - Presented at the cornea symposium of the ROYAL SOCIETY OF
MEDICINE, LONDON, April 1993.
18.Penetrating keratoplasty in infants and
children.
Presented at the PAN ARAB COUNCIL OF Ophthalmology conference in MARAKESH,
1995.
19.Photorefractive keratctomy for myopia and
astigmatism - results of the first 100 cases presented at the PAN ARAB COUNCIL of
Ophthalmology conference in MARAKESH, 1995.
20.Photorefractive keratectomy and LASIK for
Myopia and Astigmatism; the results of the first one thousand cases - Presented as a
visiting professor at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary - NEW YORK, September 1996.
21.Indications and results of PRK using the
NIDEK EC-5000 Excimer laser system - Presented at the refractive surgery symposium -The
Sheraton Hotel, Abu Dhabi, UAE June 1996.
22.Recent Advances in Ophthalmology, Towards
the year 2000 Presented at the Telemedicine symposium at I.H.H, Amman, Jordan, November
1996.
23.The Hormonal effect of Pregnancy on wound
Healing post-PRK. Presented at the NIDEK international Excimer laser users Meeting ASWAN,
EGYPT, Dec.96.
24.Corneal disasters; Herpes Simplex
Endlotheliitis in a corneal transplant - Presented at the PAN ARAB council of
ophthalmology international conference, Amman, May 97.
25.SHARIF, K.W. Regression of myopia induced
by pregnancy after photo refractive keratectomy. Journal of refractive surgery (1997)
volume 13 (suppl)-S447-S448.
26.SHARIF, K.W. Photorefractive keratectomy
for myopia and Astigmatism: Results of the first 1000 Cases. Journal of refractive surgery
(1997) volume 13 (suppl) S470
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Dr.Khaled
Tel: 962 6 4644066
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