Dr. Kenneth S. Schwartz, M.D. is a highly accomplished cataract and glaucoma surgeon with a special interest and expert advanced training in refractive cataract surgery and complex glaucoma surgery including tube shunt procedures. Dr. Schwartz earned his medical degree at University of Maryland School of Medicine and completed his residency at Washington Hospital Center. He finished his fellowship program at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute.
Dr. Kenneth S. Schwartz, M.D. is a highly accomplished cataract and glaucoma surgeon with a special interest and expert advanced training in refractive cataract surgery and complex glaucoma surgery including tube shunt procedures. Dr. Schwartz earned his medical degree at University of Maryland School of Medicine and completed his residency at Washington Hospital Center. He finished his fellowship program at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute.
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I am very pleased with the personalized and professional care I receive from Dr. Schwartz. He is friendly, always professional and provides sound medical advice.
(1 week ago)
Jul-2026
Excellent doctor. Staff very professional and helpful. We’ll run office.
(1 month ago)
Jul-2026
Excellent
(1 month ago)
Jun-2026
Dr. K.Schwartz is excellent.
(1 month ago)
Jun-2026
Personable, professional, and explained everything in detail
(1 month ago)
Jun-2026
Competent, reassuring, knowledgeable, efficient. All excellent characteristics of really fine physicians. And his staff was equally first rate.
(1 month ago)
Jun-2026
Very kind and unhurried.
(1 month ago)
Jun-2026
Ultimate Professional
(1 month ago)
Jun-2026
His counsel provides valuable advice... in warm manner.
Dr. Kenneth S. Schwartz, M.D. is a highly accomplished cataract and glaucoma surgeon with a special interest and expert advanced training in refractive cataract surgery and complex glaucoma surgery including tube shunt procedures. He did his sub-specialty training at U.S. News & World Report’s #1 ranked Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in Miami, Florida. The majority of his practice is comprised of cataract and glaucoma patients referred in from other doctors.
Dr. Schwartz lectures on cataract and glaucoma surgery and diseases of the eye and has been a senior attending surgical instructor for the doctors in training at Georgetown University/ Washington Hospital Center since 2003. He is one of Washingtonian Magazine’s Top Doctors and is listed in the National Guide of America’s Top Ophthalmologists and in the Washington DC-Baltimore-Northern Virginia Doctors Guide. Dr. Schwartz is a member of the Practicing Ophthalmologist’s Curriculum Committee for the American Academy of Ophthalmology.
Dr. Schwartz co-authored a chapter in Duane’s Textbook of Ophthalmology, and he has peer-reviewed journal publications on the medical and surgical management of routine and complex glaucoma cases as well as the use of diagnostic imaging techniques after glaucoma surgery. He does work abroad to train local surgeons in advanced surgical techniques, and he has done mission work in Peru and Ghana to train physicians and treat complex cases.
I am very pleased with the personalized and professional care I receive from Dr. Schwartz. He is friendly, always professional and provides sound medical advice.
Excellent doctor. Staff very professional and helpful. We’ll run office.
Excellent
Dr. K.Schwartz is excellent.
Personable, professional, and explained everything in detail
Competent, reassuring, knowledgeable, efficient. All excellent characteristics of really fine physicians. And his staff was equally first rate.
Very kind and unhurried.
Ultimate Professional
His counsel provides valuable advice... in warm manner.
EXCELLENT EYE DOCTOR VERY PROFESSIOAL