Joel Confino, M.D.

Ophthalmologist
Cornea, Cataract & Refractive Surgeon

Joel Confino, M.D.

Ophthalmologist
Cornea, Cataract & Refractive Surgeon

Joel Confino, M.D. is an Ophthalmologist, Cataract Surgeon, Cornea Specialist & Refractive Surgeon at The Eye Care & Surgery Center in New Jersey. Dr. Confino specializes in laser cataract surgery & lens implants and helping patient with nearsightedness, farsightedness, astigmatism and presbyopia become less dependent on eyeglasses & contacts with LASIK eye surgery and other types of laser eye surgery for vision correction.  

Dr. Confino is a graduate of Yale University and earned his medical degree at Albert Einstein School of Medicine in New York. He completed a Residency in Ophthalmology at Mount Sinai Medical Center as well as a fellowship in Corneal and External Disease at the University of California-San Diego (UCSD).

Dr. Confino has provided eye care to New Jersey area residents for more than 30 years with a focus on providing each and every patient with individualized and personalized education and care, so that all patients can achieve their vision correction goals.

As a respected Cornea Specialist & LASIK Surgeon in New Jersey he is also well recognized as a highly experienced NJ Cataract Surgeon. Patients with cataracts in New Jersey benefit from his expertise in minimally invasive “small incision, no needle, no stitch, no patch” outpatient cataract surgery in New Jersey using only “eye drop” anesthesia, as well as bladeless laser cataract surgery in NJ. He is committed to helping patients with cataracts become independent of eyeglasses, reading glasses and bifocals through the use of advanced technology near vision presbyopia correcting lens implants such as the AcrySof® IQ PanOptix™ Trifocal Lens Implant, the TECNIS Symfony Lens Implant (IOL), the AcrySof™ IQ Vivity™ Extended Vision Intraocular Lens as well as providing lens implants for astigmatism including the AcrySof® Toric Lens Implant and the TECNIS Toric Lens Implant.

Dr. Confino is well known to those seeking LASIK in New Jersey, as a dedicated LASIK surgeon who personally sees his patients before, during and after their LASIK Surgery in order to insure that Laser Vision Correction is the right choice for correcting their nearsightedness, farsightedness and astigmatism.

Dr. Confino is certified by the American Board of Ophthalmology (ABO), a Fellow of the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) and a member of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (ASCRS).