Carlos Diaz, MD

"Dr. Carlos Diaz is a board-certified ophthalmologist that specializes in cataract surgery with modern lenses, including presbyopia and astigmatism correcting intraocular lenses. He also performs refractive surgery, including LASIK and PRK. In addition, he performs state-of-the-art pterygium surgery, which is aimed at producing superior cosmetic outcomes with a lower risk of recurrence. Dr. Diaz also has extensive experience in glaucoma procedures, including SLT Laser, Ex-Press Mini Shunt, Canaloplasty, iStent, and Goniotomy. He is fluent in Spanish.

Dr. Diaz attended medical school at Northwestern University in Chicago, Ill., and received his Bachelor of Science degree from Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Mich. (he graduated magna cum laude). His medical training included completion of an ophthalmology residency at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, and a two-year fellowship in ocular pathology and research at Emory University in Atlanta, Ga. He completed an internship at St. Mary’s Hospital in Grand Rapids, Mich."

"Southwestern Eye Center was established in 1982 in Mesa, Arizona, by Dr. Lothaire Bluth. For more than 35 years, the practice has grown and continues to offer world-class technology and down-to-earth values.

Dr. Bluth pioneered the concept of bringing the doctor to the patient and bringing comprehensive eye care to rural and underserved areas throughout Arizona. On a given morning, three to four airplanes take Southwestern Eye Center ophthalmologists and their crews to outlying offices and ambulatory surgery centers where operations for cataracts, retinal disease, glaucoma, and oculoplastics are performed on those who are unable to travel to or afford care in larger metropolitan centers. Offering outpatient surgical procedures locally allows patients to receive superior and more convenient care at a fraction of the cost the same procedures required in a metropolitan or hospital setting.

More recently, Southwestern Eye Center partnered with Barnet Dulaney Perkins Eye Center as a founding practice in the American Vision Partners network. We will continue to operate all of our centers with the same level of quality you expect, and you will work with the same doctors and staff you have always trusted for your ophthalmology needs."