Dr. Stephen Albert Hudock MD

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Dr. Hudock is a Fellowship trained and board certified Ophthalmologist with Guthrie Medical Group. Guthrie is a not-for-profit, integrated health care system designed to offer patients a full-spectrum of health services incorporating primary care, complex specialty care, behavioral health services, surgical services, inpatient care, durable medical equipment services, home health, long-term care, palliative care and hospice care.

Dr. Hudock graduated with his Medical degree from State University Of New York Upstate Medical University in 1981. He then completed a one year of a family practice residency in Williamsport from 1981 to 1982. He then worked in the emergency room at Jersey Shore Hospital from 1982 to 1983. He then completed a surgical internship at Robert Packer Hospital from 1983 to 1984. Followed by his ophthalmology residency at Robert Packer Hospital from 1984 to 1987. He was on the staff of the Guthrie Clinic 1987 to 1988, then did a one-year glaucoma fellowship from 1988 to 1989 at New York Eye and Ear Infirmary. He holds nearly 3 decades of experience in the field of glaucoma.

Dr. Hudock holds expertise in cataract surgery, glaucoma, glaucoma laser therapy, and ophthalmic diagnostic testing.

Ophthalmology is a branch of medicine and surgery that deals with the anatomy, physiology and diseases of the eyeball and orbit. An ophthalmologist is a specialist in medical and surgical eye disease. Eye surgery, also known as ocular surgery, is surgery performed on the eye or its adnexa by an ophthalmologist.

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