Brian M. Shafer, MD

Brian Shafer, MD spent a year at the historic Pennsylvania Hospital doing Internal Medicine before completing his residency at the University of Pennsylvania, Scheie Eye Institute. While there, he was selected as Chief Resident and was awarded the Medical Student Teaching Award at graduation. After completing his residency, Dr. Shafer spent an extra year of fellowship in Cornea, Refractive, Glaucoma, and Complex Cataract Surgery at Vance Thompson Vision in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Vance Thompson Vision is the highest surgical volume fellowship in the country. While there, he completed thousands of vision-correcting procedures while learning from Vance Thompson, one of the first people in the world to perform LASIK and PRK, and John Berdahl, a pioneer in modern cornea and glaucoma surgery. As a dual fellowship trained cornea and glaucoma surgeon, Dr. Shafer is able to take on the most advanced cases in the city of Philadelphia.