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Board Certification, Specialty and Expertise

Dr. Elba Pacheco identified specializing in OphthalmologyOphthalmology
An ophthalmologist has the knowledge and professional skills needed to provide comprehensive eye and vision care. Ophthalmologists are medically trained to diagnose, monitor, and medically or surgically treat all ocular and visual disorders. This includes problems affecting the eye and its component structures, the eyelids, the orbit and the visual pathways. In so doing, an ophthalmologist prescribes vision services, including glasses and contact lenses. No Sub Specialty. and Plastic SurgeryPlastic Surgery
A plastic surgeon deals with the repair, reconstruction, or replacement of physical defects of form or function, involving the skin, musculoskeletal system, craniomaxillofacial structures, hand, extremities, breast and trunk, and external genitalia. He/she uses aesthetic surgical principles not only to improve undesirable qualities of normal structures but in all reconstructive procedures as well. A plastic surgeon possesses special knowledge and skill in the design and surgery of grafts, flaps, free tissue transfer and replantation. Competence in the management of complex wounds, the use of implantable materials, and in tumor surgery is required.. She obtained board certification from the member board for Ophthalmology.

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Hospital Affiliations

A hospital affiliation covers any doctor who has an affiliation, association or admitting privilege with a hospital. A doctor's particular affiliation to a specific hospital can translate to the overall quality of that provider.

Dr. Pacheco is affiliated with 1 hospital:

Anne Arundel Medical Center
2001 Medical Pkwy
Annapolis, MD

License

Dr. Elba Pacheco has been confirmed to have a license in Maryland.

Education

Dr. Pacheco attended medical school at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and graduated in 1985 having 27 years experience. Additional residency training in Ophthalmology was conducted at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, Miami, FL.. Advanced training program of a fellowship in Pediatric Ophthalmology was conducted at Wilmer Eye Institute, Baltimore, MD.

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While there is no proven correlation between the quality of one's educational institution and the quality of one's professional competence, it is often an indicator. Medical schools have various levels of selectivity (some are harder to get into than others), and both the quality of their clinical training and level of research are measured. Additional medical training in both residency and fellowships and the facilities they are conducted at also provide a history of the doctors' level of training and experience.

Aliases

Patients may also know Dr. Elba Pacheco MD as:

• Elba M Pacheco
• E Pacheco

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