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Esteban A. Santiago, M.D.

Esteban A. Santiago, M.D.

Ophthalmology

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Contact

Appointment (585) 273-3937

Locations

Flaum Eye Institute - Main Campus - Rochester

Strong Memorial Hospital
210 Crittenden Boulevard
Rochester, NY 14642

(585) 273-3937 Get Directions

About Me

Esteban Santiago, MD, provides expert medical and surgical care to infants, children, adolescents and adult patients suffering from anterior segment eye conditions. Dr. Santiago is a fellowship trained cornea, complex anterior segment, ocular surface and refractive surgery specialist. Dr. Santiago d...
Esteban Santiago, MD, provides expert medical and surgical care to infants, children, adolescents and adult patients suffering from anterior segment eye conditions. Dr. Santiago is a fellowship trained cornea, complex anterior segment, ocular surface and refractive surgery specialist. Dr. Santiago did his medical degree at Instituto Universitario de Ciencias de la Salud, Buenos Aires, Argentina, followed by an ophthalmology residency at Universidad Maimonides, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and completed his 2-year fellowship at the prestigious University of Ottawa Eye Institute, Ottawa, Canada.

Dr. Santiago has a wide experience diagnosing and treating complex pathology in the anterior part of the eye in adult and pediatric patients. Dr Santiago is one of the few specialists trained in doing pediatric cornea surgery. He has participated multiple times as a national and international speaker in ophthalmology and subspecialty meetings and is active publishing in journals and textbooks.

These are some of the procedures Dr. Santiago routinely performs in adult and pediatric patients:

· Full thickness corneal transplantation
· Artificial cornea
· Partial thickness corneal surgery
· Deep Anterior Lamellar Keratoplasty (DALK)
· Descemet Striping Automated Endothelial Keratoplasty (DSAEK)
· Descemet Membrane Endothelial Keratoplasty (DMEK)
· Cataract surgery through phacoemulsification and Manual Small Incision Cataract Surgery (MSICS) for advanced cases.
· Complex anterior segment surgery
· Iris reconstruction
· Pupilloplasty
· Intra ocular lens exchange
· Scleral sutured IOL’s
· Ocular surface surgery
· Pterygium
· Ocular surface reconstruction
· Symblepharon repair
· Limbus transplantation

Languages

English, Spanish

Faculty Appointments

Assistant Professor - Department of Ophthalmology (SMD)

Credentials

Residency & Fellowship

Fellowship, Ophthalmology, University of Rochester Medical Center. 2021 - 2022

Fellowship, Cornea, External Disease And Refractive Surgery, Ottawa Hospital-General Campus. 2014 - 2016

Residency, Ophthalmology, Universidad Maimonides- Facultad De Ciencias Medicas. 2011 - 2014

Education

MD | Instituto Universitario de Ciencias de la Salud (Argentina). 2008

Research

Dr. Esteban Santiago has been invited several times as a presenter in national and international meetings. He has lectured about Pediatric keratoplasty surgical techniques, ocular surface reconstructions, stem cell transplantation, and artificial corneas. His research interest is in ocular surface r...
Dr. Esteban Santiago has been invited several times as a presenter in national and international meetings. He has lectured about Pediatric keratoplasty surgical techniques, ocular surface reconstructions, stem cell transplantation, and artificial corneas. His research interest is in ocular surface reconstruction, stem cell transplantations, and artificial corneas.

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