Sadiqa K. Stelzner, MD

Specialties

Comprehensive Eye care including normal and disease eye and systemic conditions

Eye surgeries: advance cataract surgery, laser glaucoma treatment, LASIK, eye lid surgeries (blepharoplasty), cosmetic procedures (Botox, filler and RF wrinkle reduction)

Optical: Trendy designer frames, lenses and contact lenses (online ordering)

Hearing Aid and ENT on site

Same day appointment is available for an urgent eye care

History

Established in 1948.

Our tradition of excellence was started by John E. Gilmore, M.D., an internationally renowned innovator of Ophthalmology, the Santa Monica Eye Medical Group has been providing medical and surgical eye care since 1948. Dr. Gilmore was joined by Donald E. Dickerson, M.D., a well established Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology, in 1965.

Here Dr. Gilmore, Dickerson & Kenneth Hoffer, MD, started the first course in Cataract and Intra-​ocular lens surgery, teaching hundreds of Ophthalmologists from around the country and around the world. Dr. Gilmore retired in 1991 as did Dr. Dickerson in December 2007. After Dr. Dickerson’s retirement, Dr. Sadiqa Stelzner and her staff continue the tradition of excellent and advance surgery. Dr. Stelzner has remodeled the office to a very comfortable modern interiors with the most advanced state of the art technologies. Our mission is to provide the best care in a comfortable environment with our excellent staff.

Meet the Business Owner

Sadiqa S.

Business Owner

Dr. Stelzner joined the Santa Monica Eye Medical Group in 2004 then became the successor of the practice in 2008. Dr. Stelzner has published in many scientific, peer-​reviewed articles in respected scientific journals. She is a recipient of grants from the Italian Council of Science and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for the Harvard Medical and University of Milan. She got her BS and MA degree from UCLA, MD degree from Boston University and residency training at the University of Washington. She has completed Executive Management training with the Yale School of Management.

She traveled with humanitarian organizations to perform and teach her safe and innovative surgical techniques to local eye surgeons in Mexico and El Salvador to give the gift of sight.

Dr. Stelzner is currently the Director of EyeCare at the Greater Los Angeles Veteran’s Hospital, Chief of Ophthalmology at SM-​UCLA Medical Center, and is an Assistant Clinical Professor at UCLA/​JSEI.