Dr. James Kelly, MD

About Dr. Kelly

Dr. Kelly is a board certified ophthalmologist in New York. Refractive surgery is his subspecialty. He is the Director of Refractive Surgery Education for Northwell Health and The Manhattan Eye, Ear & Throat Hospital.

For cataracts, he offers laser cataract surgery as well as intraocular lenses. He also offers LASIK, EVO ICL and Intacs eye surgery, and he can perform pterygium surgery. Dr. Kelly earned his undergraduate degree from Columbia University and his medical degree from Weill Cornell Medicine.

He completed an internal medicine internship at SUNY-Winthrop University Hospital, now NYU Langone. He then completed a three-year ophthalmology residency at the Manhattan Eye, Ear & Throat Hospital. He founded Kelly Vision in 1998.

After residency, he was the founder and medical director of Infinity Laser Center and served as a lecturer at Columbia University. He later spent five years as an attending surgeon at the Mount Sinai New York Eye and Ear Infirmary. He speaks English and Spanish.