Dr. Roy Chuck is a co-founder and the Chairman of the Medical Advisory Board at TECLens. Dr. Chuck is a cornea and refractive surgery specialist. He has expertise in the field of laser techniques for refractive eye problems and has published, patented, and lectured extensively throughout his career. Dr. Chuck also has strong research interests in dry eye, ocular surface stem cells, and corneal transplantation.

Dr. Chuck has served on the faculties of ophthalmology and engineering at Washington University, University of Southern California, University of California Irvine, and the Johns Hopkins University, where he held the Tom Clancy Professorship in Ophthalmology and was the director of refractive surgery at the Wilmer Eye Institute. At present, he is professor of ophthalmology and genetics and the longstanding chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY – one of the largest eye care centers in the country. Dr. Chuck was also one of the first Asian Americans to assume leadership of a major academic ophthalmology department in the U.S.

A U.C. Berkeley-trained engineer, Dr. Chuck graduated from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons where he received his M.D., Ph.D. degree. He then proceeded on to an ophthalmology residency in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the Washington University School of Medicine, where he also served as faculty chief resident. He completed his fellowship training in cornea and refractive surgery at the Doheny Eye Institute of the University of Southern California.