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Why Patients Choose Us

130,000 Procedures.
A Team of Specialists.
One Standard of Care.

Three decades and more than 130,000 procedures performed, that experience shapes every evaluation, every treatment plan, and every follow-up call.

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Our Philosophy

"We don't fit the patient to a procedure, we find the right procedure for the patient. And if you're not a candidate, we tell you."

— Dr. Mark Speaker

Some practices offer one procedure, so every patient gets that procedure. We offer the full range under one roof: LASIK, PRK, EVO ICL, refractive lens exchange, and corneal cross-linking. Your evaluation determines the recommendation, not the other way around.

That range means we can treat almost anyone: from a routine eye exam to prescriptions as high as -24 through staged combination procedures. And when the honest answer is that surgery isn't right for you, that's the answer you'll get.

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Refractive procedures performed by our founding surgeons

Doctors who refer their patients to each of our surgeons

Corneal surgeons who trained under LCSA surgeons

Corneal cross-linking procedures performed

Surgeons Other Surgeons Train Under

LASIK is a corneal procedure, yet fewer than one in five ophthalmologists complete the additional fellowship year in corneal surgery. Both of our founding surgeons did, and before founding this practice, they were teaching the next generation of New York's eye surgeons.

Fun Fact
They trusted each other with their own eyes. Dr. Abramson performed Dr. Speaker's LASIK, and he performed hers.

Mark Speaker, MD, PhD

  • 70,000+ LASIK and PRK procedures, plus 10,000 lens based procedures
  • Founded the Cornea Fellowship program at New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, training more than 25 corneal and refractive surgery fellows over 25 years
  • Developed the infection-prevention method used in intraocular surgery around the world today
Meet Dr. Speaker

Jodi Abramson, MD

  • 60,000+ LASIK and PRK and cross-linking procedures over more than 30 years
  • Among the first surgeons to use the excimer laser for vision correction
  • Former Chief of Corneal and Refractive Surgery at Montefiore Medical Center / Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Meet Dr. Abramson

Scott Spector, MD

  • More than 25,000 operations, with a focus on cataract and refractive cataract surgery
  • Performing cataract and refractive lens procedures since 1995.
  • Glaucoma fellowship-trained at the University of Pennsylvania; founded the New Vision Cataract and Laser Surgical Center
Meet Dr. Spector

Care That Continues After Surgery

Your care does not end on surgery day. Our doctors, Drs. Giordana Avila, Aya Egger, Jennifer Marques, and Evan Kaplan work alongside your surgeon through evaluation, pre-operative testing, and every post-operative visit, so you see familiar faces from your first exam through your last follow-up.

Concierge Care, Not an Assembly Line

In an era of corporate medicine, we've deliberately built the opposite: a concierge-style practice where you have direct access to your surgeon at every step.

Before your surgery:
A personal call from your surgeon.

Beyond your in-office consultation, your surgeon personally calls you before surgery to answer final questions and make sure you feel ready for the day ahead.

The day of surgery:
Guided through, at your pace.

It is perfectly fine to feel nervous and excited on the day of your surgery. If you need extra time, you get extra time. Nearly every patient tells us afterwards that the procedure was far easier than they imagined.

After your surgery:
Your surgeon's personal cell number.

After surgery, your surgeon personally checks in on you, and you'll have a direct number for questions, nights and weekends included. Your follow-up care continues with the same doctors and specialists you've known from your first visit.

Concierge Care, Not an Assembly Line

In an era of corporate medicine, we've deliberately built the opposite: a concierge-style practice where you have direct access to your surgeon at every step.

What to look for
Fellowship-trained corneal specialists performing your procedure
Surgeon experience
Eye-relaxing preparation before diagnostic imaging
Imaging repeated until measurements are ideal
Who plans your treatment
A call from your surgeon before surgery
Your surgeon's personal cell number after surgery
Full range of options: LASIK, PRK, EVO ICL, refractive lens exchange, cross-linking
Honest candidacy decisions
Extreme prescriptions (up to approximately -24)
Laser & Corneal Surgery Associates
Fellowship-trained corneal specialists performing your procedure
130,000+ procedures, using every major laser platform in LASIK history
Focus-relaxing lenses before imaging, so measurements reflect your eye's true shape
SightMap captures are repeated as many times as needed
Your surgeon, personally, at the planning computer
Every patient
Every patient
All under one roof
"If you're not a candidate, we tell you."
Through staged Bioptics procedures
Corporate LASIK Centers
Varies Widely
Varies Widely
Not Typical
Not Typical
Varies
Varies
Varies
Often LASIK-only
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Not Typical

Trusted by the People Who Know Medicine Best

The surgeons at Laser & Corneal Surgery Associates have earned the trust of fellow physicians, optometrists, and patients from every walk of life.

The Doctors' Doctor

Ophthalmologists, plastic surgeons, optometrists, and physicians from every specialty of medicine have chosen Dr. Speaker and Dr. Abramson for their own eye surgery. Many now send their family to them.

High Level Trust

There is not one person in the world who does not want the best possible vision. We take that responsibility seriously and bring the same thoughtful care to every patient.

Worth The Trip

Patients travel from across the country and around the world, often on their own doctor's referral. More than 250 physicians refer their patients to each of our surgeons.

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It starts with a careful and thorough evaluation.

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