JonathanScottCrissMD

Summary

• Jonathan Criss, MD is a board-certified ophthalmologist who is a New York City native and an alum of Hunter College High School. He graduated Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa from Yale University with a degree in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology. He attended medical school at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine - where he was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society and was also a recipient of the Walter and Anne Gamble, Walter Lewis Croll, and Bertha Dagan Berman scholarships. He completed his internship in Internal Medicine at the historic Pennsylvania Hospital, part of the University of Pennsylvania Health System.
  
  Dr. Criss performed his ophthalmology residency at Stanford University Medical Center, and served as chief resident during the final year of his training. His cataract and oculoplastic surgical volume was in the top 10% of graduating residents nationwide. He was an invited speaker at the American Academy of Ophthalmology and other meetings and was awarded the Starr E. Shulman Fellowship by the California Academy of Eye Physicians and Surgeons. He also authored several papers, book chapters, and presentations on topics as varied as eye trauma, ocular tumors, and resident surgical training.
  
  Dr. Criss chose ophthalmology because it allows him to care for a broad range of patients, men and women, young and old. He finds improving and protecting patients’ vision to be extremely gratifying and strives to provide quality care that is both comprehensive and personalized. Patient education, and involving those he treats in their own health care decisions is very important to him. As a comprehensive eye physician and surgeon, Dr. Criss provides complete medical and surgical ophthalmologic care. He has a particular interest in small-incision, “no-shot” cataract surgery, laser procedures for “after-cataract” and glaucoma, correction of eyelid abnormalities, and evaluation of systemic diseases which affect the eye.