PHYSICIAN CEO Alumni Directory

Daniel Durrie, MD founder of Durrie Vision, has built a world class vision correction surgery center located in

Overland Park, KS. Dr. Durrie received his medical doctorate and completed his ophthalmology residency at the

University of Nebraska, graduating with distinction. He was a member of Alpha Omega Alpha, a medical honor society.

Post residency, he completed a Corneal Fellowship with Filkins Eye Institute in Omaha, Nebraksa. He is a board

certified ophthalmologist and serves as a clinical professor at the University of Kansas Medical Center. In addition, he

has been a Director of the Ophthalmic Refractive Surgery Fellowship program since 1987.

Dr. Durrie has performed over 45,000 refractive procedures in his career and welcomes patients from all over the

United States as well as other countries. Through his research and innovation Dr. Durrie has played a pivotal role in

vision correction technology advancement. Dr. Durrie has been involved in over 200 FDA clinical studies as an

investigator or medical monitor. He serves on the editorial board for Ocular Surgery News (Section Editor), The Journal

of Corneal and Refractive Surgery, Review of Ophthalmology, AAO EyeNet and Refractive Eye Care for

Ophthalmologists.

Dr. Durrie serves on the medical advisory boards of over twenty five medical device and information technology

companies. Dr. Durrie is recognized as an entrepreneur in his field and is a founding member and chief medical officer

of Strathspey Crown Holdings, a private equity firm in the medical device area. He is also the chief physician officer of

Alphaeon, a recently formed company specializing in the rapidly growing field of lifestyle healthcare. Dr. Durrie has

worked with numerous venture capital firms in the medical device and medical communication area.

As an internationally recognized refractive surgeon, Dr. Durrie has been named as one of the Top Ten Refractive

Surgeons in America by Ophthalmology Times and named one of the Fifty Most Influential Ophthalmologists in the

World by Cataract and Refractive Surgery Today. He has been awarded the Distinguished Lans Lectureship Award as

well as the highest honor awarded to an Ophthalmologist by his peers the Barraquer Lectureship both by the

International Society of Refractive Surgery. Dr. Durrie is the only refractive surgeon in the Great Plains Region to

receive the honor of being named America’s Top Doctors (Castle Connolly) every year since its inception and Best

Doctors in America for 17 consecutive years. With more than 35 years’ experience in refractive and corneal surgery, he

has dedicated his career to being a pioneer in refractive surgery technology and procedures.