A partnership between the Doheny Eye Institute and Orange Coast Memorial will bring USC ophthalmologists to a new location serving Orange County residents.

The Doheny Eye Center at Orange Coast Memorial is scheduled to open this fall in the hospital’s new Patient Care Pavilion. Brian Francis, associate professor of ophthalmology at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, will serve as its medical director. The center will focus on tertiary or specialty vision care providing treatment for common eye conditions such as glaucoma, cataracts, corneal disease, ocular surface disease, orbital tumors and Graves disease.

The facility will include eight exam rooms and a state-of-the-art procedure room for noninvasive treatments. Surgeries will be performed in the Pavilion’s Orange Coast Center for Surgical Care, only steps away from the Doheny Eye Center. Other unique services that will be featured at the Doheny Eye Center include neuro-ophthalmology services and minimally invasive corneal transplant.  

Additionally, the Doheny Eye Center will perform the Trabectome procedure, which is a minimally invasive technique for treating open-angle glaucoma, and the center will be one of only three centers in the world offering the new Boston scleral lens prosthetic device. This procedure can improve vision and reduce painful irritation.