Gifts at Work

Dr. Roger Steinert
Shaping the Eye Institute's vision

Many years ago, Dr. Roger Steinert enjoyed building elaborate model sailing ships — hand-tying the tiny knots with a magnifying glass and tweezers. In doing so, he felt a connection to the surgical craft, and he later explored the field of ophthalmology because of the attention to minute details it requires.

Recruited here from his faculty position at Harvard Medical School, Roger leapt at the opportunity to work hand-in-hand with some of the country’s leading eye technology companies. He now holds positions at UC Irvine as vice chairman of Clinical Ophthalmology, director of Refractive, Cornea and Cataract Surgery, and professor of Ophthalmology and Biomedical Engineering.

As a board member of the eye institute initiative, to say Roger is grateful for the Herberts’ exceptional donation is an understatement. “Gavin and Ninetta’s gift is providing tremendous momentum to establish an eye institute,” he says. “We are extraordinarily grateful for their transformative support.”

Roger’s work focuses on lasers for refractive surgery as well as micro-incision procedures to make vision after cataract surgery even closer to perfection. He is on the cutting edge of research on laser technology, focusing on the integration of wavefront technology to improve both primary refractive surgery and in therapeutic applications. He is named in both America’s Top Doctors and Best Doctors in America in these three areas: cataract, cornea and refractive surgery.

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