Castle Connolly Doctor ID: 83CC029117
Specialty: Ophthalmology
Special Expertise: Neuro-Ophthalmology, Pediatric Ophthalmology, Optic Nerve Disorders, Strabismus
Hospital Affiliation: Boca Raton Regional Hospital
Dr. Michael Schaffer is a board-certified, fellowship-trained ophthalmologist who specializes in eye problems related to the optic nerve, neurologic diseases (including stroke and brain tumors), double vision, strabismus and eye disease in children. He joined Delray Eye Associates, PA in 1994. Since that time he has consulted on thousands of patients at the request of many referring physicians. Dr. Schaffer currently holds affiliated faculty positions at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and the Schmidt College of Medicine at Florida Atlantic University.
Dr. Schaffer completed his undergraduate studies in biology at Brown University, and obtained his medical degree at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. Dr. Schaffer served his medical internship at Lankenau Hospital in Philadelphia and his ophthalmology residency at the University of Pennsylvania’s Scheie Eye Institute. He continued his education with a fellowship in neuro-ophthalmology at the Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. He also underwent additional training in pediatric ophthalmology and strabismus at the Children’s Hospital in Philadelphia.
Dr. Schaffer is a Top Ophthalmologist in Boca Raton.