Alireza Ghaffarieh, M.D specializes in corneal transplants, refractive surgery, cataract surgery and external eye diseases with a primary interest in Refractive and Premium cataract surgery.

Ghaffarieh comes after serving as an advanced clinical cornea and refractive surgery fellow at Massachusetts Eye and Ear, home to the world’s largest vision research center and a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School in Boston. He also served as an assistant professor of Ophthalmology in the Jones Eye Institute, UAMS.

Ghaffarieh graduated in the top 1% of his class from Shiraz University and earned his medical degree in 1996. After completing his ophthalmology residency in 2002, Ghaffarieh received additional training in keratoprosthetic surgery at Fyodorov Eye Institute and visual rehabilitation at Krasnov Center, both located in Moscow.

Additionally, he completed three research fellowships in neuro-ophthalmology, ocular pathology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and cytopathology at the University of Southern California.

Along with 26 years of medical experience, Ghaffarieh has multiple affiliations as a researcher and scientist working in various biomechanical and biomedical engineering departments and institutes. His most recent basic research project is permanent eye color change with corneal inlays implants.

He has authored more than 40 journal articles and three book chapters, in addition to serving on the editorial board and as a reviewer for several ophthalmology journals. He is an inventor and holds one full and six provisional U.S. patents.

Ghaffarieh is fluent in English, Azerbaijani, Persian, Turkish, Arabic and basic Spanish.