 Dr. Miller has been practicing in San Pedro since 1973 when he founded Peninsula Eyecare Medical Associates. He is board certified by the and a . After graduating from he completed an Internal Medicine Internship at the . Thereafter he spent two years in the United States Public Health Service being stationed in San Pedro. He participates in annual meetings of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, the Cataract and Refractive Society, and other societies holding meetings related to his particular professional interests.
Dr Miller did his residency training at the and .
The Jules Stein Eye Institute has always been ranked in the top five training programs in the entire country. Upon completion of three years of residency he was given a fellowship with the International Eye Foundation spending three months in Honduras providing surgical and medical eyecare in the capital city of Tegucigalpa.
Dr. Miller is an and has been involved in resident and medical school teaching for years. He currently is very active with where he spends one or more weeks a year in various third world countries providing volunteer surgical ophthalmic care to the indigent patients. He and his wife, Kelly have recently worked in the Republic of Georgia, Mexico, Peru and India. They are scheduled to work in a remote village in China later this year where he will head a team of surgeons from India and China.
Dr. Miller's professional memberships include:
- Los Angeles County Medical Association
- California Medical Association
- California Association of Ophthalmology
- Los Angeles Society of Ophthalmology
- American Academy of Ophthalmology
- American Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
- Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society
Surgical Eye Expeditions (SEE) International, Inc. Clinic in Beirut, Lebanon 2009
Surgical Eye Expeditions (SEE) International will be providing a cataract surgery eye clinic in Beirut, Lebanon. This clinic will serve an estimated 75- 100 patients in the city and surrounding communities. Dr. Kenneth Miller will be the U.S. surgeon in this clinic.
Interesting Facts About World Blindness
World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that there are 37 million blind people in the world. Of these people:
- 90% live in developing countries
- 80% of the cases are avoidable or treatable
- 48% are blind due to cataracts
SEE International’s primary focus on cataract surgery is one of the most cost-effective of all health interventions. Cataract blindness is readily curable with modern cataract surgery. With a 30-minute surgery and the patient under local anesthetic, a volunteer SEE International surgeon can restore the sight of a person who has been blind with cataracts for 5, 10, or even 20 years. Blindness is a key barrier to promoting health, the centerpiece of development. Thus, tackling blindness among the poor is central to the goal of creating new opportunities for people of developing countries.
In Lebanon, the major cause of blindness is cataracts (41.3%), which can be reversed by this 30- minute or less surgery. With nearly 30% of the population living below the poverty line, there is a critical need for the services SEE International provides.
The clinic will provide services free of charge to underserved individuals in Beirut who could not have received this service otherwise.
SEE’s involvement with the Mohd Khalid Hospital was initiated in 2008. The cataract clinic highlights a new surgical technique called Manual Small Incision Cataract Surgery (MSICS) that enables surgeons to perform twice as many surgeries in the same amount of time and without sutures. Patients have fewer incidences of infection and heal faster through this process. He will be leading a skills exchange program with other ophthalmologists in the area as well as performing surgery.
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