Stephen Glenn Slade is a native Houstonian and is in private practice in Houston, Texas. He attended Tulane University and the University of Texas in Austin graduating Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a double major. He attended The University of Texas Medical School with a final, elective year spent at Guy’s Hospital, London. He completed a residency at the LSU Eye Center in New Orleans and fellowships in corneal surgery at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and in New York, New York on Project ORBIS. Dr. Slade is a Fellow of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and the American College of Surgeons. He is an active teacher of surgical techniques and has taught and certified over 8,000 surgeons LASIK and lamellar refractive surgery. Dr. Slade’s experience with lamellar refractive surgery began in 1980 with epikeratophakia, followed in 1984 with myopic keratomileusis, then LASIK.