Steven R. Sarkisian, Jr., MD, is the founder and CEO of Oklahoma Eye Surgeons, PLLC. He specializes in premium cataract surgery and glaucoma surgery, with a special interest in helping his patients be glasses-free and performing minimally invasive glaucoma surgery (MIGS). He implants premium lenses with cataract surgery and was the first in Oklahoma to implant the PanOptix trifocal lens.
(405) 943-4413
5600 N. Portland Ave. Oklahoma City, OK 73112
Dr Sarkisian is the former director of the glaucoma service and fellowship at the Dean McGee Eye Institute and the former Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Oklahoma in Oklahoma City.
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Dr. Sarkisian received his undergraduate degree from Wheaton College in Illinois, where he graduated with honors. Following college, Dr. Sarkisian did graduate work at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia. Remaining in Philadelphia, he received his MD degree from Jefferson Medical College followed by an internship at Chestnut Hill Hospital. Dr. Sarkisian completed an ophthalmology residency at the State University of New York Health Science Center (SUNY Downstate) in Brooklyn, New York, and did a fellowship in glaucoma at the Hamilton Eye Institute at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis, after which he was asked to stay on the faculty where he served until July 2006.
- Specializes in premium cataract surgery and glaucoma surgery
- The first surgeon in Oklahoma to perform the iStent, iStent Inject, the Xen Gel Stent, and canaloplasty
- The first in the U.S. to use the OMNI device and the first in the world to use the TRAB360 and VISCO360 surgical systems