While putting together our new redesigned site, we asked our doctors for facts and trivia about eyes. You’ll find them scattered all around the site, but here are a few extra ones you may find interesting.
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Dr. Stephen Felton: “I feel very lucky.”
Dr. Stephen Felton began what would become Princeton Eye Group in 1980. As he enters the twilight of his career, recently limiting his practice to three days a week, Dr. Felton has begun reflecting on an incredible life and career that nearly never occurred. For Stephen was born, two months premature, in the Warsaw Ghetto […]
Teaching at Wills is Its Own Reward For Dr. Epstein
Dr. Epstein has been teaching ophthalmology residents at Wills Eye Hospital for the past 10 years. Spending time in the Wills Cataract and Primary Eye Care Clinic and the operating room teaching cataract surgery is his way of giving back to his alma mater. Dr. Epstein derives great pride in knowing that his efforts ensure […]
The ‘Wong Way’ Leads to Innovators Award for Dr. Michael Wong
Dr. Michael Wong, a pioneer in minimally invasive cataract surgery, is the distinguished recipient of the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame’s Innovator’s Award. This recognition honors lifetime achievement, invention and innovation among outstanding, New Jersey-based scientists, engineers and researchers. Dr. Wong is the first clinical physician to be honored as an innovator by the […]
Third World Cataract Mission Trips
Dr. Michael Wong has been fortunate to have a strong support system both in his associates at the Princeton Eye Group and his family, that allow him time to help those in need. “I simply see the work I do overseas as an extension of what I do here locally. There are no borders to […]
Dr. Epstein’s Passion for Music Helps Raise $40,000 for the Deaf
Dr. John Epstein, a long time guitarist with a passion for music, wanted to make sure his kids shared this important part of his life. His daughters began playing musical instruments at the age of 5, and now his 11 year old daughter, Isabella, plays piano, harp, cello, keyboards, accordion and flute. His 9 year […]
Support the New Hospital in Princeton
Recently, Drs. Stephen Felton and Michael Wong were recognized for their support of the Design for Healing Campaign to support the new University Medical Cener of Princeton at Plainsboro (UMCPP), the new state-of-the-art hospital that will serve the Princeton area. To show your support, please visit www.princetonhcs.org/foundation.
Dr. Stephen Felton Lends a Hand
On the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Montana more than half the population relies completely on the grossly under funded Indian Health Service for health care. Serious health problems such as diabetes, TB, alcoholism and drug dependence are much more prevalent there than in the general population. Dr. Stephen Felton, founder of The Princeton Eye Group is […]
Palestinian Girl Comes to America to Receive Cornea Transplant
On April 4, 2007 in North Brunswick, New Jersey, a 16 year old girl from the country of Palestine, Ahlam Abuowda, received life- enhancing eye surgery. Through the help of the Lions Eye Bank of Delaware Valley, Dr. Michael Wong, a cornea transplant surgeon, an international relief agency, and many others, the girl received a […]
Doctor and Son Make Eye-Opening Trip to Africa
Dr. Michael Y. Wongs recent trip to Africa resulted in better vision for many people in Namibia; it also resulted in new perspective for the doctor and his 17-year-old son Matthew. Working in conditions very different from those at the Princeton Eye Group, which he cofounded, Dr. Wong restored over 100 patients from near total […]