Dr. Fred Y. Chien, MD

Media Releases

Get to know Ophthalmologist Dr. Fred Y. Chien, who serves patients in Florida.

A highly trained ophthalmologist, Dr. Chien specializes in the non-surgical treatment of diabetic retina disease, wet and dry macular degeneration, vein occlusions, and other retina disorders. He also specializes in microincisional cataract surgery and premium lens implants such as multifocal lenses and astigmatism correcting lenses. 

At present, he practices out of Ocean Ophthalmology in North Miami Beach, Florida and serves the local community at Plessen Ophthalmology in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. He also joined Halodine, LLC as VP of Ophthalmology and Clinical Sciences in August of 2020.

The cataract surgeons at Ocean Ophthalmology have expertise in the full range of premium lenses designed to reduce or eliminate dependency on glasses at the time of cataract surgery. Using the latest advances in diagnostics and laser technology, they provide each patient with the best refractive solution that modern science can offer. 

Plessen Ophthalmology is the largest multi-specialty ophthalmology practice in the U.S. Virgin Islands, with offices in St. Croix and St. Thomas. The licensed physicians include fellowship-trained glaucoma, cornea, retina and oculoplastic sub-specialists providing world class ophthalmology services to patients residing in the Caribbean.

Pertaining to his educational background, Dr. Chien attended college at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, where he graduated in 1999 with Departmental and Phi Beta Kappa Honors in Biophysics. He attended the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai for both medical school and internship training. He then completed his residency in ophthalmology at Stanford University, and his medical retina fellowship at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in Miami.

In 2008, Dr. Chien joined Kaiser Permanente in California as a medical retina specialist and cataract surgeon where he has performed over 5000 cataract surgeries in the last 10 years. His publication and work with plaquenil retinopathy during this time led to an improved plaquenil screening program for the organization and helped save the sight of numerous patients who were previously undetected.

A member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, he is board-certified in ophthalmology by the American Board of Ophthalmology (ABO). The ABO is an independent, non-profit organization responsible for certifying ophthalmologists in the United States of America.

In the state of Florida, Dr. Chien is affiliated with the following hospitals: Memorial Hospital West and Memorial Regional Hospital.

To date, he has been published in journals such as Nature Neuroscience, Neuron, Archives of Ophthalmology, Retina, Retina Today, and JAMA Ophthalmology. He has also presented scientific posters at numerous ophthalmology society meetings.

Recommended Articles

• What are the Side Effects of Cataract Surgery?

  Cataract is a disease which makes an eye lens to appear cloudy, thus reducing the eyesight. A normal eye lens assists in focusing light onto the retina for clear and undistorted image appearance. When a cataract forms in the eye, it makes images appear blurred and distorted. Although cataracts can...

• Signs and Symptoms of Conjunctivitis

  There are many causes of conjunctivitis such as:...

• How to Prepare for Cataract Surgery

  The normal process of aging is the leading cause of cataracts. The eye’s lens slowly loses its clarity and gets cloudy as we age. As a result, the quality of vision decreases. Cataract surgery is recommended when your life’s quality starts to suffer.It is important to know how to prepare...

• What Is Bacterial Conjunctivitis?

  What is bacterial conjunctivitis?Conjunctivitis is an inflammation of the palpebral or bulbar part of the eye. There are many types and many causes of conjunctivitis. One common type is bacterial conjunctivitis, wherein bacteria that infect the eyes spread through direct contact with an infected...

• What Specialists Treat Cataracts?

  Cataracts are defined as the clouding of lens in your eye. The clear lens of your eye becomes increasingly foggy causing a great deal of issues with eyesight. The effects of cataracts can be felt more strongly at night sometimes due to the poor visibility conditions which prevail already. Cataracts...

• What is Cataract Surgery?

  The exact cause of cataracts is not known. Nevertheless, it seems that most cataracts are caused by long-term variations in the eye lens protein components which in turn causes cloudiness in the lens. Though not common, cataracts can affect infants and young children due to genetic enzyme...