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legant Island Living recently had the opportunity to speak to Dr. John Imhoff, Ophthalmologist, Founder and Medical Director of SouthEast Eye, about his nearly 40 years of practice and the newly opened Laser Surgery Center. Dr. Imhoff began the conversation by admitting that he’s sentimental about his career and life’s journey. Dr. Imhoff opened his first Ophthalmic practice in 1983, here in Brunswick, just three years after graduating from the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine and completing his residency at the
Dean A. McGee Eye Institute. Dr. Imhoff is a member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, American College of Eye Surgeons, American Medical Association, American Society of Contemporary Ophthalmology, and the Medical Association of Georgia. He is a fellow of the McGee Eye Institute and Oklahoma Eye Institute. During his career, Dr. Imhoff, with others, pioneered modern cataract surgery, and he has performed more than 80,000 of those procedures successfully to date. He says, “I love what we do, and I truly believe it’s
not just a job, it’s preserving and restoring God’s precious gift of vision.” SouthEast Eye, formerly known as Imhoff Eye Center, is southeast Georgia’s premier ophthalmic provider with skilled physicians and friendly staff dedicated to providing the highest quality eye care to each patient using the most sophisticated technology available. Since the practice was opened in 1983, it has expanded to serve patients in 10 different locations throughout southeast Georgia and northeast Florida. Dr. Imhoff explains that his goal is not just to provide the patient with good vision, but to provide them with the very best vision possible using the best technology available and based on the overall health of the eye. To do that, he says, “you need: 1) the best and newest physical facility, 2) the best and most technologically advanced equipment, 3) the best lasers, hardware and software, and 4) the best staff, one that is focused exclusively on surgical eyecare.” Dr. Imhoff says that these three things are exactly what the new SouthEast Eye Laser Surgery Center provides. The facility at 3215 Shrine Road, Suite 8 is an outpatient surgery center dedicated entirely to ophthalmology outfitted with state-of-the-art surgery
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