Prof. Avi Solomon

Avi Solomon, M.D., serves as an Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at the Department of Ophthalmology at the Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center in Jerusalem, Israel. He is affiliated to the Faculty of Medicine at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

His main interests are Cornea and External Eye Diseases, with emphasis on ocular surface disorders. In addition he performs refractive surgery. 
He is performing corneal transplantation for various indications such as keratoconus, corneal edema, corneal scarring and dystrophies. He has performed complex surgical procedures of ocular surface reconstruction, including limbal stem cell transplantation, amniotic membrane transplantation,symblepharon repair, and pterygium surgery. He has successfully managed patients with dry eye syndrome, blepharitis, corneal infections, as well as challenging cases of severe chemical and thermal burns of the ocular surface, and from severe inflammatory diseases of the cornea and conjunctiva.