Dr. Joseph King, MD FRCS

Joseph W. King, MD, earned his medical degree from the University of British Columbia, School of Medicine in Vancouver, Canada. Dr. King is a dual citizen of the United States and Canada. He completed his residency in ophthalmology at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, where he served as Chief Resident his final year. To advance his clinical proficiency, Dr. King underwent a one-year specialized training in laser vision correction at the University of South Florida Eye Institute. He has focused his whole career on vision correction surgery. Dr. King has served as a clinical investigator in various clinical trials, allowing him to become one of the first eye surgeons in the world to perform laser vision correction surgery using the latest generation of custom wavefront-guided technology in 2010. He was the second surgeon in the world to perform treatments with another laser vision correction software. Dr. King is usually one of the first surgeons to introduce new technologies in refractive surgery. He was the first surgeon in the Northwestern U.S. and Canada to use the Zyoptix XP microkeratome and the Bausch and Lomb Z-100 laser. He performed the first surgery in Western North America using Zyoptix-TS software with the Bausch and Lomb laser. He also performed the first iLASIK procedure in Alberta using the Intralase and AMO VISX laser with wavefront-guided technology and iris registration.

Dr. King is certified by the American Board of Ophthalmology and is a member of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, the Canadian Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, the American Academy of Ophthalmology and the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery.