Honor Your Doctor – NKCF Top Docs

All eyes are on Texas this year.  Dr. Tyrone McCall MD and Dr. Clarke Newman OD are the NKCF Top Docs for 2024.  Both practice in Dallas, TX and received recommendations from patients who experience significant vision disorders on top of their long-time keratoconus.  NKCF salutes these Texas eye care professionals for their outstanding management and commitment to their keratoconus patients.

Dr. Clarke Newman OD of Plaza Vision Center in Dallas was nominated by patient AF, who praised his ability to handle difficult situations, “Dr. Newman was able to get me great and comfortable vision in my keratoconus only eye and reasonable vision in my retina damaged keratoconus eye.  Whenever I have problems, he figures it out and gets it repaired.”

Dr. Newman is well known to NKCF for his support over the past several years.  He regularly contributes to the KC Roundtable and cheerfully lends his expertise when requested.  He is also one of the country’s most esteemed contact lens fitters. A graduate of the Univ. of Houston College of Optometry, he is a Fellow of the American Academy of Optometry, the Scleral Lens Education Society, and the British Contact Lens Association.  The American Optometric Association named Dr. Newman a “legend” in 2015.  He holds the Diplomate from the AAO Section on Cornea, Contact Lens and Refractive Technologies; he is one of fewer than 150 optometrists to hold this distinction.

Our ophthalmologist Top Doc is Dr. Tyrone McCall MD, a graduate of the University of Oklahoma School of Medicine who completed his residency at the University of Arkansas and his cornea fellowship under the cataract and cornea innovator, Dr. Robert Sinskey.  Dr. McCall is a partner in the practice, Cornea Associates of Texas, where he has worked for more than twenty years.   He has participated in many clinical trials, including corneal crosslinking for keratoconus as early as 2010.

Dr. McCall’s longtime patient, CD, nominated him, saying, “I’m an 80-year-old patient with 40- and 30-year-old corneal transplants.  Dr. McCall monitors their health and clearly explains the condition of my eyes and what I should look for in the future.”  The patient noted that Dr. McCall has also removed his cataracts.

More than 460 ophthalmologists and optometrists have been nominated by their patients since 2017.  You can see the names of all doctors who have been nominated here.

Congratulations to all the doctors who have been nominated and thank you to all the friends of NKCF who took the time to tell us what makes their doctor special.  We are happy to add the names of Dr. Clarke Newman OD and Dr. Tyrone McCall to our prominent group of Top Docs listed here.

More than 460 ophthalmologists and optometrists have been nominated by their patients since 2017.  Congratulations to all the doctors who have been nominated and thank you to all the friends of NKCF who took the time to tell us what makes their doctor special.  We are happy to add the names of Dr. Clarke Newman OD and Dr. Tyrone McCall to our prominent group of Top Docs.