Daniel Haddad, M.D.

Dr. Daniel S. Haddad is a board-certified ophthalmologist and the founder of the Laser Eye Institute, Michigan’s leading center for laser vision correction. With over 30 years of experience in the field, Dr. Haddad has performed more than 100,000 vision correcting procedures and is recognized as one of the most experienced LASIK and SMILE surgeons in the country.

Always at the forefront of research and technology, Dr. Haddad is well respected in his field and recognized as a leader in vision correction. A native New Yorker, received his medical degree from New York Medical College in 1983. Upon completion of his specialty training at Wayne State University’s Kresge Eye Institute and ophthalmology board certification, he decided to stay in the area and raise his family of four in Metro-Detroit, where he founded the Laser Eye Institute in 1987. His vision for the Laser Eye Institute is to not only to improve the life and vision of each patient.

Experience

Education

Awards

• #1 SMILE Surgeon in the U.S. (2023)
• Innovators in Medicine, Crain's Detroit (2017)
• Ruedeman Lecture, Distinguished Alumnus Award, Kresge Eye Institute (2015)
• ASCRS Best Paper of Session Award, ASCRS: Decentration of Ablation Visx S2 Despite Using Active Tracking (2015)
• Teacher of The Year, Grace Hospital Practice Residency Program (1994)
• Humanitarian Award: Providing Eye Care to Arab Center for Economic and Social Services (1992)
• President, Michigan Keratorefractive Society
• American Board of Ophthalmology

Publications

• SMILE: The First 100 Cases, an Early American Experience ASCRS Annual Meeting
• Cataract Surgery in the Post Refractive Patient Luther Fry Lecture, Kresge Eye Institute
• Decentration in Refractive Surgery, Etiologies and Management Rudeman Lecture, Kresge Eye Institute
• Decentration in Laser Vision Correction MISEPS Annual Meeting
• Pupil Centroid Shift and Laser Vision Correction ACES Annual Meeting
• Pupil Centroid Shift and Laser Vision Correction ACES Annual Meeting
• Wavefront Guided Retreatment of Horizontal Coma Induced by Pupil Centroid Shift ASCRS Annual Meeting
• Treatment of Astigmatism in the cataract patient Aspen Cornea Society
• Decentration of Ablation Visx S2 Despite Using Active Tracking ASCRS Annual Meeting
• Effects of Patient’s Sera of Radiosulfate Incorporation. Annals of Ophthalmology
• Experimental Endocrinic Exophthalmos: Effects of TSH on S35 uptake. Annals of Ophthalmology