Specialist Dr David Kent

Ophthalmologist, Ophthalmologist & Ophthalmic Surgeon Vocational scope: Ophthalmology. Qualifications: MB ChB 1986 Auckland; FRANZCO 1993. Post-Fellowship training: Dr David Kent completed his medical degree in 1985 and trained as an eye surgeon (ophthalmologist) in 1992 in Auckland. He then spent 12 months at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London doing glaucoma. Dr Kent spent 19 months in Charleston, South Carolina working with Dr Kerry Solomon and Dr David Apple at the Storm Eye Institute, Medical University of South Carolina. There he did post-graduate training in excimer laser surgery, cataract surgery and intraocular lenses. He worked at an excimer laser clinic in Melbourne to further his sub-specialty training before returning to New Zealand in 1996 to establish the Fendalton Eye Clinic. Dr Kent was the first New Zealand eye surgeon to undertake formal university based training in LASIK surgery, in 1994. During his time in the United States Dr Kent was involved in US FDA trials of excimer laser surgery as well as research into how the cornea heals after the LASIK procedure. First registered with the NZ Medical Council on 27 November 1986.