Professional Appointments:

• President and Medical Director:
  Global Laser Vision, San Diego County
• President and Medical Director:
  Global Laser Cosmetics, San Diego
• Chief Eye Surgeon:
  Laser Eye Center and Global Laser Vision, San Diego
  
  

• Clinical Fellowship: Refractive Surgery, Cornea and External Eye Disease, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and the Laser Eye Center of Boston
• Postdoctoral Fellowship: Cornea and External Eye Disease, Harvard Medical School, Schepens Eye Research Institute
• Chief Residency: Ophthalmology Residency Georgetown University Medical Center
• Residency: Ophthalmology Program at Georgetown University Medical Center
• Internship: Internal Medicine at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital
• Medical School: University of Southern California
• Undergraduate: University of California, Berkeley (B.A. in Biochemistry)
  
  

• AMA Physician's Recognition Award
• Chief Resident
• Dean's Scholar for Junior/Senior Continuum
• Clerkship Honors Scholarships and Fellowships:
• Ophthalmology Research Fellowship For Academic Achievement
• Baxter Scholarship
• Phi Beta Kappa (Honor Student Society)
• Dean's List
  
  

• F Yaghouti, M Nouri, M.D. W.C. Fung, W.J. Power, M.G. Doane, C.H. Dohlman. Preoperative Prognostic Categories in Keratoprosthesis: Invest Ophthal & Vis Sci
• F Yaghouti, DT Azar. A Case of Intralamellar Keratitis Following an Epithelial Defect Five Months after LASIK: ISRS
• F Yaghouti, R Pineda. New LASIK Interface Sander and LASIK Corneal Iron: ASCRS
• F Yaghouti, JH. Talamo. How Can We Best Measure Quality of Vision after Refractive Surgery? AAO Reshaping the Future
• F Yaghouti, C.H. Dohlman. Innovations in Keratoprosthesis: Proved and Unproved, International Ophthal Clinics
• F Yaghouti, M Nouri, M.D. W.C. Fung, W.J. Power, M.G. Doane, C.H. Dohlman. Keratoprosthesis: Preoperative Prognostic Categories: Cornea
• F Yaghouti, M Nouri, G Mannor. Ocular Adnexal Granulocytic Sarcoma as the First Signs of Acute Myelogenous Leukemia Relapse. Am J of Ophthal
• F Yaghouti, M Nouri, M. G. Doane, D. T. Azar. Analysis of Tear Film Dynamics with Interferometry. Invest Ophthal & Vis Sci
• SA Melki, A Safar, F Yaghouti, P Scharper, M Scharper, B Zeligs, AL Macdowell, MA Goldberg, J Lustbader. Effect of Povidine-Iodine vs. Ofloxacin on Experimental Staphylococcus Keratitis. Invest Ophthal. & Vis Sci
• F Yaghouti, N Moinfar, J Lustbader. Clinical Predictors of Corneal Ulcer Outcome. Invest Ophthal. & Vis Sci
• N Moinfar, F Yaghouti, J Lustbader. Outcome of Routine Culturing and Emperic Flouroquinolone Treatment of Suspected Infectious Keratitis. Invest Ophthal. & Vis Sci
• F Yaghouti, M.P. Dacey, D.A. Frambach. All Leukocytes are Seen as Moving Hyperfluorescent Dots in Video Fluorescein Angiograms Taken with a Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscope. Invest Ophthal. & Vis Sci
• F Yaghouti: Phakic Anterior Chamber IOLs Keep Improving; Ophthalmology Times:
• F Yaghouti: The Preferred Technique for Correction of Myopia; Ophthalmology Times: Submitted.
• F Yaghouti: 5000 LASIK procedures: What are the complications?; Ophthalmology Times:
• F Yaghouti: No Flap, Just Zap: Intrastromal Tissue Removal Using Ultrafast Infrared Lasers; Ophthalmology Times
• F Yaghouti: How do Eye Tracking Lasers Work and Why do we Need Them; Ophthalmology Times
• F Yaghouti: State of the Art LASIK in the new Millenium: Ophthalmology Times
• F Yaghouti: All Cause Mortality May Add Bias to Survival Studies; Ophthalmology Times
• F Yaghouti: What are You Doing Differently This Year; Ophthalmology Times
• F Yaghouti: Comparison of Two Laser Epithelial Removal Techniques for PRK; Ophthalmology Times
• F Yaghouti: Survival Rates Similar in Melanoma Options; Ophthalmology Times
• F Yaghouti: Brushing up Now may Help Curb Litigation Issues Later; Ophthalmology Times
• F Yaghouti: PRK Found More Predictable at Lower Levels of Myopia; Ophthalmology Times
• F Yaghouti: Retreatment Shows Good Results After PRK for Myopia; Ophthalmology Times
• F Yaghouti: Laser Epithelial Removal Improves PRK re-treatment; Ophthalmology Times
• F Yaghouti: Videokeratography Helps Explain LASIK Outcome; Ophthalmology Times
• F Yaghouti: Laser Epithelial Removal Improves PRK re-treatment; Ophthalmology Times
  
  

• How Can We Best Measure Quality of Vision after Refractive Surgery? AAO Subspecialty Day Meeting
• Keratoprostheses: Preoperative Prognostic Indications: Annual Fellows Lecture Series, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
• Keratoprosthesis: What Have We Learned, Alumni Day, Georgetown University Medical Center
• Factors Associated with Poor Visual Acuity in Patients with Corneal Ulcers, Alumni Day, Georgetown University Medical Center
• Ophthalmic Emergencies for the Emergency Room Physician, Georgetown University Medical Center
• Outcome Analysis of PRK and PTK at Georgetown University Medical Center. Alumni Day, Georgetown University Medical Center
• Ophthalmic Emergencies for the Emergency Room Physician, Cottage Hospital
  
  

• Development of an Animal Model to Study Dohlman-Doan's Keratoprosthesis (Protocol #96-11-014, Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary).
• The Role of Steroid in Preventing Melts Following Keratoprosthesis Surgery (Protocol #96-11-014, Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary).
• The Role of Medpore* vs. Cyanoacrylate vs. Paraformaldehyde to Delay Melts after Keratoprosthesis Surgery (Ongoing, Protocol #96-11-014, Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary).
• Use of Alloderm* vs. Porcine Pericardium in Place of Cornea in Keratoprosthesis Surgery (Protocol #96-11-014, Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary).
• Interferometric Analysis of Tear Film in Patients Suffering From Dry Eyes as Compared to Asymptomatic Individuals.
• Comparison of Ketoconazole 2% Cream With Erythromycin Ointment in the Treatment of Blepharitis. (IRB#273-95, Georgetown University).
• Retrospective Analysis of Data from Patients with Diagnosis of Corneal Ulcer at Georgetown University Hospital Medical Center.
  
  

• Yaghouti LASIK Globe Fixation Ring I: To Minimize Eye Movements During Lasik Procedure
• Yaghouti LASIK Globe Fixation Ring II: To Minimize Eye Movements During Lasik Procedure
• Yaghouti LASIK Flap Dryer: To Rapidly Dry the Flap's Gutter Gap, Facilitating the Adherence of the Flap
• Yaghouti LASIK Sponge I: To Absorb Meibomian Gland Secretions From Entering The Interface While Using a Fixation Ring to Stabilize the Eye
• Yaghouti LASIK Sponge II: To Control Bleeding From Pannus During LASIK Procedure
• Yaghouti LASIK Cannula: To Reflect and Reposition the Flap During Lasik Procedure
• Yaghouti LASIK Superior Hinge Sponge: To Absorb Meibomian Secretions From Entering the Interface When creating Superior Hinged Flaps
• Yaghouti LASIK Enhancement Forceps: For Easy Re-Lifting of Flap Prior to Enhancement
• Yaghouti LASIK Interface Polisher: For Removal of Debris and Epithelial Ingrowth Intraop and Postop
• Pineda LASIK Flap Ironing Device to Smoothen Flap Wrinkles Intraop and Postop
• Yaghouti temporary Keratoprosthesis to Rapidly Close the "Open Sky" Wound in the Cases of Expulsive Hemorrhage--Can also be used as a Temporary Keratoprosthesis during Pars Plana Vitrectomy
• Yaghouti capsulotomy Instrument for Precise and Predictable Capsulotomies in Phacoemulsification
• Software to Use Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscope in Visual Field Testing of Young Children and Other Less Than Ideally Motivated Subjects
• Remote Suturing Instrument for Surgical Treatment of Congenital Ptosis
• Automated Warming Device to Reproducibly Dilate The Hand's Capillaries, Used in Diabetes Research
• Hyperbaric Oxygen Chamber to Preserve Vital Organs for Lengthy Periods
  
  

• American Board of Ophthalmology
• California Board of Medicine
• Massachusetts Board of Medicine
• Nidek EC5000 PRK
• VISX PRK, PRKa, and H-PRK, CustomVue High Myopia, Hyperopia, Hyperopic Astigmatism, Mixed Astigmatism, and monovision in presbyopia, Fourier Wavefront, Iris Registration,
• Summit Technology PRK and PRKa
• Chiron Vision C-LASIK (ASC and Hansatome)
• Microtech Moria Mikrokeratomes (LSK-1 and CB)
• Botox Cosmetic
• Lumenis Intense Pulsed Light
• Restylane and Juvederm
• Amniotic Membrane Transplantation in Ocular Surface Reconstruction
  
  

• American Academy of Ophthalmology
• International Society of Refractive Surgery
• American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery
• American College of Eye Surgeons
• Contact Lens Association of Ophthalmologists
• Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology
• International Society of Online Ophthalmologists
• Georgetown Alumni Association
• Massachusetts Eye and Ear Alumni Association
• Schepens Eye Research Alumni Association