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Muhammad Shahbakht, OD

Muhammad Shahbakht, OD

Optometrist


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Bio

Muhammad Shahbakht, OD, studied biological sciences at Rutgers University, graduating with honors and a minor in psychology, and then completed the optometry degree at the University of the Incarnate Word's Rosenberg School of Optometry. Internship training followed at a Veterans Affairs hospital in Florida and at a surgical eye practice in Maryland.

The work is consultative. It means seeing patients in the visits that lead up to an operation and then again through the recovery, so that the same doctor who prepared someone for surgery is the one who checks how the eye has settled. That role has run since 2017, beside the surgeons who perform the procedures.

Dr. Shahbakht is a licensed optometrist and a member of the New Jersey Society of Optometric Physicians. In Dr. Shahbakht's own words, "The surgery itself is one day, but the visits on either side of it are where a patient decides whether the whole thing went well. I try to keep those visits unhurried and specific about what comes next." Patients can visit Dr. Shahbakht at Omni Eye Services in West Orange, New Jersey.