Dr Kim Frumar (Ophthalmologist)

Name: Dr Kim David Frumar
Qualifications: FRANZCO 1981; MBBS 1975
Occupation: Ophthalmologist
Gender: Male
Languages Spoken: Japanese; Spanish; French
Medical Specialties: Ophthalmology

Links: http://www.nu-lasik.com.au/index.html

Dr. Kim D Frumar is the Medical Director of the Northern Laser Vision Centre.

He is a former Chairman of Ophthalmology at the Sydney Adventist Hospital and is a Senior Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon at the Royal North Shore Hospital as well as Lecturer in Clinical Ophthalmology at Sydney University. He is a Visiting Ophthalmic Surgeon at Dalcross Private and at Chatswood Private Hospital.

Dr Frumar is a member of the Royal Australian College of Ophthalmologists (RACO), Royal College of Ophthalmologists UK (RCOphth), American Society for Cataract and Refractive Surgery (ASCRS), International Society of Refractive Surgery (ISRS), American Academy of Ophthalmology (OAA), Australian Society for Cataract and Refractive Surgery (AUSCRS) and the Australian Medical Association (AMA) and a lecturer to the Australasian Society of Aerospace Medicine.

He has had over 25 years experience working with Ophthalmic Lasers in various aspects of eye surgery. Beginning as the Rene & Francis Hock Fellow and later the Welcome Fellow at Moorfields Eye Hospital, London with vitreous and retina . Then later the challenge of accurate vision correction achieved in cataract surgery lead him to develop an interest in excimer laser refractive surgery on the cornea.

He has an active involvement in the design of surgical instruments and surgical computer software for cataract and refractive surgery. Dr Frumar has lectured internationally and taught at Phacoemulsification (cataract surgery) workshops in many centres throughout South-East Asia.