Laura C. Fine M.D.

Offices
OCB Boston, OCB Waltham, Boston Eye Surgery & Laser Center, Boston Eye Surgery & Laser Center ~ West

Specialties
Glaucoma, Cataract, Surgery of the Anterior Segment

Medical School/Degree
University of Pennsylvania

Residency
University of California, San Francisco

Biography
Dr. Laura C. Fine specializes in cataract surgery and the medical, surgical and laser treatment of glaucoma. Her principal goals are to deliver the highest quality care and guidance to patients and their referring doctors while remaining active in teaching, research, and patient advocacy.

Dr. Fine attended Wesleyan University, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, a scholastic honorary society. In medical school at Penn, she received the Oliver Memorial Prize for Excellence in Ophthalmology. As a UCSF resident, she was awarded the Taylor Asbury Award for Clinical Research. Dr. Fine was honored with the prestigious Heed Foundation Award and completed her glaucoma fellowship training through Harvard Medical School at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary.

Dr. Fine joined OCB in 2003. She lectures regularly to primary care physicians through Harvard Medical School’s Primary Care Internal Medicine Course. She is also an instructor at both Harvard Medical School and Tufts, where she is highly regarded for her teaching and mentoring of medical students, residents, and ophthalmology fellows. She is the medical editor for The Aging Eye Newsletter, an informative patient education brochure produced by Harvard Health Publications. Dr. Fine lectures at the New England Ophthalmological Society (NEOS) as well as national eye meetings on the treatment of cataract and glaucoma.

Dr. Fine is certified by the American Board of Ophthalmology and is a fellow of the American Academy of Ophthalmology. Dr. Fine also serves on several regional and national committees, including the Digital Media Committee and Eye Care America as well as the Public Health Education Committee of NEOS. She is a co-founder of the Women Ophthalmologists of New England Society and is a physician advisor to The Glaucoma Foundation. She is Secretary and past-Vice President to The Chandler-Grant Society, a group of internationally recognized glaucoma experts.

Dr. Fine is committed to providing her patients with the highest quality, compassionate eye care with the most sophisticated knowledge available today. She has special interest in advanced technologies for early glaucoma detection and surgical innovations for cataracts and glaucoma.



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