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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.