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Warren E. Hill, MD has been the Medical Director of East Valley Ophthalmology for the past 20 years, specializing in consultative ophthalmology, challenging anterior segment surgery, intraocular lens power calculations and ophthalmic ultrasonography. Dr. Hill completed BS and BA undergraduate degrees at the University of Maryland, received his Doctor of Medicine from the University of Arizona College of Medicine, completed two years of internal medicine training at Good Samaritan Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona and three years of ophthalmology training at the University of Rochester, in Rochester, New York. He is certified in general ophthalmology by the American Board of Ophthalmology and has subspecialty certification in anterior segment surgery by the American Board of Eye Surgery. Dr. Hill is also a member of the International Intra-Ocular Implant Club, a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, the American Academy of Ophthalmology, the International College of Surgeons and the American College of Eye Surgeons. In 1995, 1996, 1998, 2002 and again in 2004 Dr. Hill was voted a "Top Doc" in the specialty of ophthalmology by medical peers in Phoenix
Magazine. In 2005 Dr. Hill was voted "One of the Top 50 Opinion Leaders in Cataract and Refractive Surgery" by the readership of Cataract
and Refractive Surgery Today and was named a Top Doctor: Best of Arizona in Ranking
Arizona 2005.
Dr. Hill has devoted much of his professional activities to the
mathematics of intraocular lens power calculations in complex and
unusual clinical situations and performing challenging anterior
segment surgery for other ophthalmologists. He is a consultant to
industry in the field of intraocular lens mathematics, intraocular
lens design, and optical coherence biometry. In this area has given
the Charles H. May Memorial Lecture for the New York Academy of
Medicine, the Barry and Jack Kayes Lectureship in Ophthalmology &
Visual Sciences for Washington University in St. Louis School of
Medicine, and the John Balian Memorial Lecture for the Michigan
Keratorefractive Society. He has published many scientific articles,
served as visiting professor for numerous grand rounds, and has
delivered more than 100 presentations to ophthalmic societies both in
the United States and internationally in 16 countries and on five
continents. He has been the keynote speaker for the Society for
Excellence in Eyecare, the Special Cataract Surgery Lecturer for the
Philippine Academy of Ophthalmology Society and the Co-Chairman of
the Advanced Phacoemulsification Surgery Course of the Singapore
National Eye Centre.
Dr. Hill has been a Consultation Section contributor and article reviewer for the Journal
of Cataract and Refractive Surgery and the British on-line journal BMC
Ophthalmology. He has served as the Instrumentation Section Editor for Techniques
in Ophthalmology, and is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Cataract
and Refractive Surgery Today. Dr. Hill was chosen as the senior author for the American Academy of Ophthalmology’s monograph: Complex
Axial Length Measurements and Unusual IOL Power Calculations and was appointed as an editorial faculty responsible for Clinical
Optics, Section 3 of the American Academy of Ophthalmology’s Basic and Clinical Science Course. In 2004 Dr. Hill was elected to the Board of Directors of the American College of Eye Surgeons and in 2005 was elected to the Board of Directors of the American College of Eye Surgeons.
Aside from the practice of ophthalmology, Dr. Hill is also an active multi-engine instrument-rated commercial pilot, current in all areas. He has been licensed as an amateur radio operator since 1964, is a member of the German High Speed Morse Code Society and has held foreign amateur radio licenses in Albania, Finland, The Gambia, Ghana, Grenada, México, The Union of Myanmar and the Maldive Republic. In 1999 Dr. Hill was chosen as the DX Dinner Banquet speaker for the Dayton Hamvention. In 1994 he lead the team radio operators that won first place in the world for the CQ World Wide DX Contest from Ghana, West Africa, in 1996 he lead the team radio operators that had the first place zone 24 score in the CQ World Wide DX Contest from the Union of Myanmar (Burma) in Southeast Asia and in 1998 he lead the team radio operators that had the first place world 160-meter score for the CQ World Wide CW DX Contest from The Maldive Republic in the Indian Ocean. In November of 2003 Dr. Hill was selected by the American Radio Relay League to lead the United States Amateur Radio Delegation to Tirana, Albania as part of a multi-national training program in conjunction with the International Amateur Radio Union and the Albanian Ministry of Transport and Telecommunications.
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