Steven C. Schallhorn
Chief Medical Officer
Business Administration
Carl Zeiss
Germany
Biography
Steven Schallhorn, MD is Chief Medical Officer for Carl Zeiss Meditec’s Global Strategic Business Unit Ophthalmic Devices. Dr. Schallhorn is a board certified, licensed ophthalmologist in private practice in San Diego, California, a Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of California, San Francisco and the Chief Medical Director for Optical Express. After graduating from Colorado State University, Captain Schallhorn served in the US Navy as an F-14 aviator and a Navy Fighter Weapons School instructor (TOPGUN). He completed his medical degree at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, ophthalmology residency at the Naval Medical Center San Diego, and cornea fellowship at the Doheny Eye Institute, University of Southern California. He founded the Department of Defense refractive surgery program and directed the Naval Medical Center San Diego.
Research Interest
Dr. Schallhorn has served on the Executive Committee for the American Academy of Ophthalmology International Society of Refractive Surgeons, as Chairman of the AAO ISRS Program Committee, as Chairman of the AAO Refractive Ophthalmic Technology Assessment Committee, and as Editor for the AAO ONE Program. Dr. Schallhorn has been a visiting professor of medicine at Harvard, USC, UCSF and Baylor. Dr. Schallhorn has received the ASCRS Binkhorst award, the AAO Lans award and the ISRS 2016 Casebeer Award for outstanding contributions to refractive surgery.
