Robert A. Latkany, M.D.
Robert Latkany, M.D. is a board certified corneal specialist and refractive surgeon. He is fluent in Spanish as a second language (habla con fluidez el español como segunda lengua). Dr. Latkany is a Columbia graduate who continued on to earn his medical degree from Boston University School of Medicine. He served as the chief resident in ophthalmology while at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary and continued there to pursue a fellowship in corneal/external disease and refractive surgery.
Dr. Latkany specializes in treating and alleviating dry eyes, blepharitis, pterygium, pinguecula, corneal ulcers, corneal scars, corneal swelling requiring corneal transplantation, stem cell deficiency, poorly healing epithelial defects (non-healing skin-defects in the eye) that may require amniotic membrane transplants, ocular rosacea, and styes.
Dr. Latkany is experienced in many refractive surgery procedures and has authored numerous scientific papers and publications. He is actively in dry eye research and lectures nationally and internationally.
Dr. Latkany's book, The Dry Eye Remedy , the first book ever written about dry eyes to the general public, sold almost 20,000 copies in the first year.
