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Board Certification, Specialty and Expertise

Dr. Rona Silkiss 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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Insurance Accepted

Dr. Rona Silkiss accepts the following plan for Anthem Blue Cross at Glaucoma Associates:

• BlueCard PPO

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Hospital Affiliations

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Dr. Silkiss is affiliated with 5 hospitals:

Alta Bates Summit Medical Center - Summit Campus
350 Hawthorne Ave
Oakland, CA

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License

Dr. Rona Silkiss has been confirmed to have a license in California.

Education

Dr. Silkiss attended medical school at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and graduated in 1980 having 32 years experience. Additional Ophthalmology training was conducted at University of California Los Angeles Medical Center.

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Aliases

Patients may also know Dr. Rona Silkiss MD as:

• Rona Z Silkiss
• R Silkiss

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