Dr. Welcome loves building the deep trust and communication required to safely achieve great outcomes in glaucoma surgery and post-operative care. Through the frequent checks required through decades, he feels glaucoma surgeons are given a unique gift of building strong personal relationship with their patients.
Originally from New York, this busy surgeon also enjoys running/racing, Caribbean travel, blue-water sailing and wave ski surfing, along with more sedate pastimes of writing/journaling and reading non-fiction by the fireplace.
Certified by the American Board or Ophthalmology, 2002.
Participating in MOC (Maintenance of Certification)
Dartmouth College (cum laude); Double Major (Biology and Biologic Anthropology);
Bachelor of Arts, 1989-1993
SUNY Health Sciences Center, Syracuse NY (Upstate); Doctor of Medicine, 1993-1997
Roger Williams Medical Center, Providence, RI; Medical Internship, 1997-1998
Brown University School of Medicine/Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, RI;
Ophthalmology Residency, 1998-2001
Dean McGee Eye Institute, Oklahoma City, OK; Glaucoma Fellowship, 2001-2002
Active: SC; Inactive: RI, OK
American Medical Association, 1997-present
American Academy of Ophthalmology, 2001-present
AAO Ethics Committee, 2016-present
American Glaucoma Society, 2002-present
South Carolina Medical Association, 2003-present
South Carolina Society of Ophthalmology, 2003-2015
American Eye Study Club, 2005-present
American Board of Ophthalmology, 2004-present
Oral Board Examiner, 2004-present, 11 exams
Exam Writing Committee, 2015-present
Cataract Section Chair/Moderator, 2017-2018
Jervey Eye Group, PA, 2002-present
3 Presidential Citations, Dartmouth College
President, American Eye Study Club, 2015-2016
Invited presentations, nationally: Ethics and Glaucoma topics
GHS and St Francis
