Sunil P. Deokule, MD

"Dr. Deokule received his medical degree from Baroda Medical College in Baroda, India.  He has double glaucoma fellowship training and comes with extensive experience in managing complex glaucoma and cataract surgery.  His previous experience includes glaucoma in private practice in Tucson and as a glaucoma specialist and Associate Professor at the University of Kentucky, Lexington and VA hospital. He comes with excellent basic science and clinical research experience having authored several publications in prestigious medical journals. He also has vast international experience having practiced Ophthalmology in the United Kingdom for 9 years and New Zealand for nearly 3 years.

Dr. Deokule is a board-certified member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and the American Glaucoma Society.  He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists."

"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."