AlexanderPleetMD

Anterior Segment Related, Cataract Related, Glaucoma Related

Ophthalmologist/Glaucoma Specialist

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Office
485 Arsenal St
Norwood, MA 02472
Phone+1 617-657-6455

Fax+1 781-702-5379

Dr. Alexander Pleet specializes in comprehensive ophthalmology, cataract surgery, and the medical, laser, and surgical treatment of glaucoma. As well as delivering high quality comprehensive ophthalmic care to his patients, he is passionate about the early detection and personalized treatment of glaucoma in the quest to prevent visual impairment and blindness from this disease. He has a special interest in cataract surgery in glaucoma patients, and has had extensive training with new minimally invasive glaucoma procedures as well as more complex glaucoma surgeries.

McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern UniversityFellowship, Glaucoma, 2018 - 2019
University of Illinois College of Medicine at ChicagoResidency, Ophthalmology, 2015 - 2018
Tufts University/Hallmark Health SystemInternship, Transitional Year, 2014 - 2015
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of PennsylvaniaClass of 2014, MD
Brown UniversityBS, Neuroscience, Magna Cum Laude, 2006 - 2010

Chief Resident Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary Ophthalmology Residency, 2017-2018
Resident Teaching Award UIC Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, 2017
Illinois Resident Advocacy Ambassador 2017
Stuart L. Fine Ophthalmology Medical Student Research Prize University of Pennsylvania Medical School, 2014
Magna Cum Laude Brown University, 2010
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PubMed

26 citations
Risk Factors Associated with Progression to Blindness from Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma in an African-American Population.
Alexander Pleet, Melanie Sulewski, Rebecca Salowe, Raymond Fertig, Julia Salinas
Ophthalmic Epidemiology. 2016-06-27
7 citations
Utility of 3-year torso computed tomography and head imaging in asymptomatic patients with high-risk melanoma.
Erin R. DeRose, Alexander Pleet, Wei Wang, Virginia Seery, Mee Young Lee
Melanoma Research. 2011-08-01
1 citations
Refractive Outcomes for Combined Phacoemulsification and Glaucoma Drainage Procedure.
Rajvi Mehta, Shizuka Tomatzu, Dingcai Cao, Alexander Pleet, Alexander Mokhur
Ophthalmology and Therapy. 2022-02-01

Journal Articles

Retrospective analysis of the efficacy and safety of netarsudil in clinical practice
Tang M, Prager A, Pleet A, Tanna AP, Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 6/2020
A complex choristoma presenting as a salmon patch lesion in the bulbar conjunctiva
Oh DJ, Pleet AL, Chen JL, Goldman JB, Lin A, Cortina MS, American Journal of Ophthalmology Case Reports, 2019
Review of "Intraoperative aberrometry vs. standard preoperative biometry and a toric IOL calculator for bilateral toric IOL implantation with a femtosecond laser: One-...
Drake S, Hyde R, Gulati S, Pleet A, Zhou M, Kang K, Huo S, ASCRS EyeWorld, 6/2016

Books/Book Chapters

Surgical Management of Astigmatism
Chapter: Induced and Residual Astigmatism after Cataract Surgery
Page 136 - 153Pleet A, Cortina S, Azar DEditors: Dimitri T. Azar, et al.Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers2019

Abstracts/Posters

The Effects of Brimonidine on Human Meibomian Gland Epithelial Cells
Pleet AL, Eslani M, Djalilian AR, Aref A, Annual Meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO), Honolulu, HI, 5/2/2018
The Effects of Prostaglandin Intra-Ocular Pressure Lowering Agents (Glaucoma Eye Drops) on Human Meibomian Gland Epithelial Cells
Aref AA, Eslani M, Pleet AL, Djalilian A, Annual Meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO), Honolulu, HI, 5/2/2018
Familial Exudative Vitreoretinopathy: A Case Series
Pleet AL, Francis AW, Chau FY, Annual Meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO), Seattle, WA, 5/2016