We sincerely hope you are happy with the care you have received in our practice. As a means of reaching out to more patients like you in the community, we would like for you to vote for us in the Savannah Magazine Best Doctors 2025 poll.
Voting is easy! All you need is 5 minutes. Please open the link below, scroll down to #49, and vote for Dr. Richard R. Schulze, Jr., under the “Best Ophthalmologist” category in Savannah Magazine’s Best of Doctors 2025 Edition. While you’re there, vote for your favorites in other specialties as well. Please share this link and ask family and friends to vote as well! Hurry, the voting ends April 1st!
Thanks to all of you who voted for Dr. Schulze, he won 8 years in a row as Best Ophthalmologist (2017 – 2024)! We appreciate your trust in Dr. Schulze. Thank you for your help again this year! We look forward to serving you in 2025!
LASIK is an acronym for “laser assisted in situ keratomileusis.” The procedure uses the excimer laser to reshape the cornea so as to correct your nearsightedness, farsightedness, and astigmatism. With LASIK, the laser reshapes the cornea underneath a corneal flap (think of the flap as being like a trap door on the surface of the cornea) allowing for quicker healing with less pain. In fact, most of our LASIK patients are back to their normal activities the day after surgery.
Our practice began performing LASIK back in 1997. Not everyone is a candidate for LASIK, but for those who aren’t, we also perform other refractive procedures such as the ICL and Refractive Lens Exchange
A magna cum laude graduate of Princeton University, Dr. Schulze went on to study English literature at Oxford University, receiving his M. Phil. degree, before graduating with his M.D. from the University of Virginia in 1990. He performed his internship at Roanoke Memorial Hospital in Virginia before moving on to his residency in ophthalmology at the Ochsner Clinic in New Orleans.
After a year of fellowship training in anterior segment surgery of the eye at the Kentucky Eye Institute, Dr. Schulze, Jr. returned home to Savannah in partnership with his father. Dr. Schulze, Jr. is a member of the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Ophthalmogy, the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, the International Society of Refractive Surgery, and the Medical Advisory Board of the Georgia Eye Bank.
Dr. Schulze, Jr. specializes in cataract and refractive surgery. Outside of ophthalmology, his interests include windsurfing, sailing, fishing, hunting, farming, and literature.
728 E. 67th Street, Savannah, GA 31405
Phone: (912) 352-3120
