Muscat Eye Laser Center

9 June 2012, Muscat: Muscat Eye Laser Center toasted a decade of exemplary services as the nation’s foremost private eye care clinic with a pledge to evolve into a centre of eye-care excellence in the Gulf region. At a ceremony to mark the anniversary, Medical Director and co-founder Dr Maria Clara Arbelaez unveiled plans for the clinic’s eventual relocation to a spacious, state-of-the-art, multi-storey facility at Bausher designed and equipped to cater to Muscat Eye Laser’s burgeoning caseload and an expanding portfolio of eye-care services. It has been a momentous ten years for Dr Arbelaez, a globally renowned corneal surgeon, who along with CEO and co-founder Mr. Sameer Al Awam, oversaw the growth of Muscat Eye Laser Center into Oman’s largest and best estab lished eye-care services provider in the private sector. Through her commitment to providing an exceptionally high level of patient care, Dr Arbelaez saw her practice grow from a team of seven members in 2002 to around...

  Reinforcing her credentials as an international authority on refractive eye surgery, Muscat Eye Laser Center’s Medical Director was invited to present a pair of scientific papers as the Annual Symposium and Congress of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (ASCRS) in the United States recently. Dr. Maria Clara Arbelaez’s inclusion in a roster of top-flight presenters from around the world attests to her standing as an internationally recognised expert in the field of cataract and refractive eye surgery. As the world’s signature forum on anterior segment surgery, the Annual Symposium and Congress of the ASCRS attracts specialists on the frontline of ophthalmic research and practice from around the globe. An estimated 7,000 eye-care professionals registered to attend this year’s five-day-long event in Chicago. In the first of two appearances at the prestigious forum, Dr Maria presented a case study based on a yearlong follow-up of a keratoconic patient w...

Oman’s top racing driver, Ahmad al Harthy, recently turned to the Sultanate’s leading eye-care clinic, the Muscat Eye Laser Center, for a surgical procedure designed in no small measure to keep him at the top of his game on the racing circuit. The international sports star, whose amazing feats continue to inspire a generation of young Omani sportsmen and women, chose Muscat Eye Laser Centre’s revolutionary Z-Lasik procedure to enhance his vision to the razor sharp levels deemed critical for success on the racetrack. In a sport that demands the ultimate in skill, perfect eyesight is as much a requisite for success as endurance, concentration and speed – an imperative that prompted the iconic sportsman to consider corrective vision at Oman’s most prestigious surgical eye-care services provider. Z-Lasik, widely popularised by Muscat Eye Laser Center in Oman, is a safe, painless but sophisticated procedure that delivers amazing results without any of the complications typically as...