Dr. Michael Furlong, M.D.
Dr. Michael Furlong is a board-certified ophthalmologist specializing in bladeless Custom Wavefront LASIK, PRK, multifocal lens implants and cataract surgery with advanced lenses. He also treats glaucoma and other eye problems.
Dr. Furlong established Furlong Vision Correction in 1998 and merged practices with Dr. Stephen Turner in 2011. Dr. Turner opened the Turner Eye Institute in 1976, providing complete ophthalmology services including vision correction and LASIK surgery. Together they have performed more than 66,000 refractive and 20,000 small-incision cataract surgeries to date. Dr. Turner is also a pioneer in the treatment of Keratoconus and Furlong Turner Vision Correction is one of the few practices nationwide with a successful multi-component treatment protocol for this progressive disease.
Furlong Turner Vision Correction employs the highest level of technology available, including the NASA approved combination of the VISX Advanced CustomVue wavefront-guided laser and the IntraLase Femtosecond and the Allegretto Wave Eye-Q, which is designed to work optimally with other WaveLight diagnostic and surgical products.
Dr. Furlong is proud to be the only TLC-associated surgeon in Northern California and to offer the TLC Lifetime Commitment™.
Both Dr. Furlong and Dr. Turner have received many awards for outstanding performance. Furlong Vision Correction was voted the best place for LASIK in the Silicon Valley in the 2010 and 2011 Mercury News Reader's Choice Awards. Dr. Furlong is the recipient of the prestigious Jefferson Award for the Gift of Sight community program. He was chosen as one of the top 5 Surgeons nationwide out of 920 LVCI refractive surgeons and named one of San Jose's "Top Doctors" each year since 2000 by his peers.
Dr. Furlong meets and works with each patient personally throughout the entire vision correction process. His personable approach allows you to ask the right questions and his honest answers allow you to make the right decision about your eyes.
A graduate of Stanford University, Dr. Furlong received his Bachelor of Science degree in 1988.
He earned his M.D. from the University of Hawaii in 1992, graduating in the top 10% of his class. He was elected to membership in the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society and earned both the B. Kent Bennett and the V. Edward Franchville awards for outstanding medical student in the field of ophthalmology. He completed his internship at the University of Hawaii in internal medicine and surgery.
Following medical school, Dr. Furlong completed a 3-year residency in the ophthalmology program at the University of Utah Moran Eye Center, one of the most competitive surgical training programs in the country.
Dr. Furlong elected to further his formal education with a one-year refractive surgery fellowship at Canada's prestigious eye institute, the Gimbel Eye Center. During this additional full year of formal LASIK training, Dr. Furlong studied under Dr. Howard Gimbel, one of the world's leading authorities on refractive surgery.
Following this specialized training year, he traveled to Bangkok, Thailand and China to train foreign ophthalmologists in the most current refractive surgery techniques. He has also co-authored several articles and book chapters on refractive surgery.
After a year in private practice in Arizona, where he specialized in small incision cataract and laser refractive surgeries, Dr. Furlong came back to the Bay Area in 1998 and established Furlong Vision Correction. He has performed more than 17,000 LASIK procedures to date.
Dr. Furlong, a refractive surgeon specialist, continues to teach others about the latest vision surgery advances by offering regular continuing education courses to other medical professionals in the Bay Area.
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