Robert P. Liss , M.D.

Cataract, Glaucoma and Advance Surgical Care

Robert P Liss, M.D., an Attending Surgeon in the Department of Ophthalmology a the Chester County Hospital, is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School.

He teaches ophthalmology residents at both the Philadelphia Veterans Administration Hospital and Scheie Eye Institute, where he earned the Silver Apple Award as the part-time instructor most instrumental in the resident's education.

Dr. Liss completed on of the few fellowships in the country that combined advance instruction in cataract, glaucoma and corneal disease. He was first to bring sutureless, no injection cataract surgery to our area in 1992, and with "refractive" cataract surgery has reduced the need for glasses in most patients after cataract surgery. Dr Liss is frequently invited to lecture across the country on these advanced techniques of minimally invasive cataract surgery and other advances in cataract and glaucoma surgical methods. He is often consulted on the management of cataracts, glaucoma and surgical complications.

dr. Liss gradated Magna Cum Laude from the State University of New York in Buffalo, and received his Doctor of Medicine degree from the State University of New York in Brooklyn in 1985. He continued his ophthalmology residency training there and was appointed Chief Resident of Ophthalmology in 1989. He completed fellowship training in glaucoma ad corneal disease at the University of Utah in 1990. His research findings have been published widely in the ophthalmic literature.

Dr Liss has been voted by his peers as one of the area's "Top Doctors" in ophthalmology in Main Line Today magazine, in December, 2002.