Cataract Surgery
Glaucoma
Diabetic Eye Care
Macular Degeneration
Bio
Thanh Nguyen, MD, holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Virginia in two subjects, biology and psychology, taken as an Echols Scholar and awarded with distinction. Medical school came next at Eastern Virginia Medical School, followed by an internship year in internal medicine at the same institution. The ophthalmology residency that closed the training was served in the Department of Ophthalmology at SUNY Downstate.
The practice is built on cataract surgery and on the minimally invasive procedures that lower pressure in glaucoma. Beside the operating work sits the screening that finds disease before it takes sight, for diabetic retinopathy and for age-related macular degeneration, along with the long-term monitoring that keeps glaucoma from advancing unnoticed. Published papers and conference presentations run alongside all of it.
Dr. Nguyen belongs to the American Academy of Ophthalmology. Travel, time outdoors, and small acrylic art projects fill the hours away from the clinic. In Dr. Nguyen's own words, "Cataract surgery is one of the few operations where the difference shows up the next morning, and I have never stopped finding that satisfying. Glaucoma is the quieter half of the job, because there the win is that nothing changes at all." Patients can visit Dr. Nguyen at Ludwick Eye Center.