RogerAKohnMD

Summary

• Roger Kohn, M.D. is an ophthalmologist in Santa Barbara, CA and Bakersfield, CA and is affiliated with Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital and Mercy Hospitals of Bakersfield. He received his medical degree from Northwestern University Medical School followed by an internship at U.C.L.A. Dr. Kohn then returned to Northwestern for an ophthalmology residency. He subsequently completed two subspecialty fellowships in oculofacial plastic surgery. The first was under the direction of Alston Callahan, M.D. (one of the three founders of the subspecialty of oculofacial plastic surgery) at the University of Alabama. The second was under the direction of Charles Beyer, M.D. at Harvard Medical School (Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and Massachusetts General Hospital). Dr. Kohn specializes in oculofacial reconstructive and cosmetic surgery.
  
  
  His research interests include the pioneering investigation of the clinical findings and surgical management of the syndrome of ptosis, blepharophimosis, epicanthus inversus, and telecanthus (subsequently known as the Kohn - Romano syndrome, blepharophimosis syndrome). Additional clinical research areas include the surgical treatment of eyelid retraction, ectropion, and ocular pemphigoid, along with the evaluation and management of rhino-orbital mucormycosis. Dr. Kohn was also selected as one of the fifty U.S. sub-investigators to do the initial clinical research on botulinum toxin. 10,000 injections later, their work led to the FDA approval of Botox.
  
  
  Dr. Kohn is the author of Textbook of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. He also authored 15 chapters in other texts including Master Techniques in Ophthalmic Surgery, Techniques in Ophthalmic Plastic Surgery, The Eye in Systemic Disease, Oculoplastic, Orbital and Reconstructive Surgery, Birth Defects Encyclopedia. His academic appointment is with the U.C.L.A. Department of Ophthalmology, serving as full professor since 1986.