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ACS Fellow Since 1990

Rona Zel Silkiss, MD FACS

Board Certification

  • American Board of Ophthalmology

Society Memberships

  • Assn of Women Surgeons
  • Amer Acad of Ophth & Otol
  • Amer Ophth Soc
  • American Academy of Pediatrics (Urology)

Additional Information

Gender

Female

Ophthalmic Surgery

711 Van Ness Ave Ste 340

San Francisco, CA 94102

United States

Contact Information

Phone:510-763-0881
Email Me
Website

Biography

Dr. Rona Silkiss specializes in Ophthalmic Plastic Reconstructive and Orbital Surgery. Her practice focuses on delivering excellent, aesthetic and compassionate care to patients with both cosmetic and functional concerns regarding the soft tissues around the eyes and forehead. She has a special interest in cosmetic rejuvenation, thyroid eye disease, droopy eyelids and other eyelid malpositions (ectropion, entropion, ptosis) tear duct blockages, orbital and eyelid tumors and orbital fractures. Dr. Silkiss performs complex eyelid reconstructive procedures after Moh's surgery and trauma. Additonally, Dr. Silkiss takes special interest in pediatric ophthalmic plastic surgery as she is Board certified in both Ophthalmology and Pediatrics.

Subspecialties and Areas of Clinical Concentration

Neuro-ophthalmology

  • Myesthenia gravis
  • Optic nerve disorders

Eye Reconstruction Procedures

  • blepharoplasty
  • enucleation
  • Eye plastic surgery
  • Eye Reconstruction Procedures
  • eyelid reconstruction
  • Facial Plastic surgery
  • orbital surgery
  • Orbittal fractures
  • prosthetic eye
  • Thyroid eye disease
  • trichiasis

Minimally Invasive Procedures

  • Minimally Invasive Procedures
  • minimally invasive surgery

Ophthalmology Cancer/Tumors

  • basal cell carcinoma
  • eye cancer
  • eye lymphoma
  • eyelid cancer
  • hemangioma
  • Mohs surgery
  • ocular malignancies
  • ocular melanoma
  • orbit tumors
  • retinoblastoma

Ophthalmology Disorders

  • conjunctivitis
  • dry eye
  • Sjorgen's syndrome

Eye Injury/Trauma

  • chemical burns
  • conjunctivitis
  • corneal abrasion
  • eye infection
  • foreign objects
  • hematoma (black eye)
  • lid laceration
  • penetrating injuries

Pediatric Eye Disease/Procedures

  • ptosis

Hospital Appointments

Summit Med Ctr (Oakland)

Trauma/Acute Care Surgeon

California Pacific Medical Center

San Francisco,

Chief

Alta Bates

Berkeley, CA,

Trauma/Acute Care Surgeon

John Muir Hospital

Walnut Creek, CA,

Trauma/Acute Care Surgeon

Academic Appointments

University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine

San Francisco, CA

Clinical Associate Professor

California Pacific Medical Center Division of Oculofacial Plastic Surgery

Chief

01/2000—Present