Dr. Kahn has repaired thousands of eyes all over the world.

Dr. Walter Kahn

Teacher and Student

Dr. Walter Kahn has more than 15 years experience in refractive surgery. Both a teacher and a student, Kahn has repaired thousands of eyes all over the world, and still trains to keep abreast of the latest advances and technologies in laser eye surgery.
A senior volunteer with PROJECT ORBIS, Kahn has traveled around the globe, training doctors in ways to correct vision and restore sight. PROJECT ORBIS is a non-profit organization that takes the most skilled surgeons and flies them into remote areas of the world to teach native doctors the latest advances in surgery. Kahn has traveled to West Africa, Haiti, Philippines, India, Latvia, and China and Mongolia to share his knowledge and experience with roughly 1000 physicians.

Dr. Kahn has performed a variety of eye surgeries including the high-tech Excimer laser surgeries that can painlessly restore vision to those who are nearsighted and astigmatic. He is one of a very few to have performed the new LASIK excimer eye surgery, first studying the procedure in China. Kahn has been performing the forerunner to LASIK, Radial Keratotomy (RK), for more than 15 years.

Dr. Kahn performs surgery at several NJ hospitals, and is a Clinical Instructor in Ophthalmology at Hahnemann Medical School, Philadelphia. An active member and past president of the Monmouth County Medical Society, Kahn is the first vice president and AMA delegate of the Medical Society of New Jersey. He also serves on the Board of Governors of the New Jersey Academy of Ophthalmology.

Kahn is a native to the New Jersey shore, a husband, and father of three. In addition to his teaching and training, Kahn is an avid runner and a licensed pilot.

He acknowledges his devotion to his field and humbly discusses the thank you letters he receives from those whose sight he has restored. "It's very gratifying," Kahn concedes. "It makes you think it's worthwhile."

To the thousands of people who now have sight thanks to Dr. Kahn's efforts, "worthwhile" is a remarkable understatement.