Dr. Thomas D Fitzsimmons MD
Ophthalmologist
1501 Ne Medical Center Dr Bend OR, 97701About
Dr. Thomas Fitzsimmons is an ophthalmologist practicing in Bend, OR. Dr. Fitzsimmons specializes in eye and vision care. As an ophthalmologist, Dr. Fitzsimmons can practice medicine as well as surgery. Opthalmologists can perform surgeries because they have their medical degrees along with at least eight years of additional training. Dr. Fitzsimmons can diagnose and treat diseases, perform eye operations and prescribe eye glasses and contacts. Ophthalmologists can also specialize even further in a specific area of eye care.
Education and Training
University of Michigan Medical School 1986
Board Certification
OphthalmologyAmerican Board of OphthalmologyABO
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Risk for rabies transmission from encounters with bats, Colorado, 1977-1996.
- Costs and benefits of a subtype-specific surveillance system for identifying Escherichia coli O157:H7 outbreaks.
- Spontaneous regression of choroidal metastasis from renal cell carcinoma.
- Hyaluronic acid in the rabbit cornea after excimer laser superficial keratectomy.
- Acute retinal toxicity from the novel anti-tumor agent, Irofulven.
- Superficial keratectomy with the 193 nm excimer laser: a reproducible model of corneal surface irregularities.
- Transcaruncular approach to medial orbital wall fractures.
- Endogenous hyaluronan in corneal disease.
- Steroid treatment of myopic regression: acute refractive and topographic changes in excimer photorefractive keratectomy patients.
- Excimer laser photorefractive keratectomy for myopia. Clinical results in sighted eyes.
- Phototherapeutic keratectomy: long-term results in 166 eyes.
- Hyaluronan in the exfoliation syndrome.
Treatments
- Cataracts
- Diabetes
- Headaches
- Glaucoma
- Birth Defects
- Type 2 Diabetes
- Hyperthyroidism
- Graves' Disease
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