
Dr. George Michel Haik MD
Ophthalmologist
1407 S Carrollton Ave New Orleans LA, 70118About
Dr. George Haik is an ophthalmologist practicing in New Orleans, LA. Dr. Haik specializes in eye and vision care. As an ophthalmologist, Dr. Haik can practice medicine as well as surgery. Opthalmologists can perform surgeries because they have their medical degrees along with at least eight years of additional training. Dr. Haik can diagnose and treat diseases, perform eye operations and prescribe eye glasses and contacts. Ophthalmologists can also specialize even further in a specific area of eye care.
Education and Training
Tulane Univ Sch of Med, New Orleans La MD
Louisiana State Univ School Of Medicine In New Orleans 1974
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- The cross-eyed child; etiologic factors in his defect.
- Corneal transplants.
- Retrolental fibroplasia; an ophthalmic-pediatric-obstetric problem.
- The present status of retrolental fibroplasia.
- A fornix conjunctival flap as a substitute for the dissected conjunctival flap: a clinical and experimental study.
- The mechanics of intracapsular cataract extraction: description of a technic for subluxation of the lens without trauma.
- The development of vision in the cross-eyed child.
- Management of congenital cataracts in children.
- Advances in cataract surgery with particular reference to a new technique of subluxation and to enzymatic zonulolysis.
- The management of injuries of the eye: general principles, special practices.
- Subluxations and luxations of the lens: with a special note on the Barraquer operation and on Marfan's and Marchesani's syndromes.
- Light coagulation in retinal detachment surgery.
- Surgery of the inferior oblique muscle following complications of operation on the lateral rectus muscle.
- Glaucoma: medical versus surgical therapy.
- The management of pterygia, with special reference to surgery combined with beta irradiation.
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1516 JEFFERSON HWY NEW ORLEANS LA 70121