Dr. Andrew Shatz is a highly-respected, board-certified ophthalmologist with advanced training in cataract surgery, medical and surgical management of glaucoma and retinal disease, as well as refractive and cosmetic eyelid surgery.   Dr. Shatz has been performing LASIK vision correction surgery since 1999 and has been performing cosmetic and corrective eyelid surgery, cataract, glaucoma and retinal surgery for the last 8 years.

Born and raised in Montreal, Canada, Dr. Shatz attended McGill University. There, his research on the body's response to cancer was published in an internationally-recognized journal.  Dr. Shatz received a Bachelor of Science Degree with Honors, following which he performed a year of hospital-based research in Pathology.  After University, Dr. Shatz attended the Medical College of Georgia, where he divided his surgical training between General Surgery, Plastic Surgery and Ophthalmology.  He graduated cum laude from the Medical College of Georgia.

Dr. Shatz completed an Internal Medicine internship at Cornell/North Shore University Hospital in Manhassett, New York, and then moved to Philadelphia for his residency training at Hahnemann University.  He had the honor of being Chief Resident at Hahnemann prior to graduating.

Topical, clear-corneal (no-stitch) cataract surgery, refractive lens exchanges, intraocular lens implants and LASIK are among the surgical procedures Dr. Shatz performs.  As well, he has expertise in cosmetic and corrective eyelid surgery, and is the first surgeon in Georgia to perform the Contour facial augmentation procedure.

Dr. Shatz lectures in Atlanta and the Southeast and sits on clinical advisory panels. He provides consultative and surgical services to his colleagues in ophthalmology, optometry and various medical specialties.  Dr. Shatz has a patent pending on a cataract surgical instrument and has been published in the millennium Edition of the Who's Who in Medicine.