Meet The Team
Our Team
Park Avenue LASEK combines the personalized care of a private practice with some of the most advanced innovations in modern ophthalmology. Our team is committed to making your experience as smooth, comfortable, and informative as possible from your first consultation through your final follow-up visit. No question is too small, we are here as a resource every step of the way.
Our multilingual staff proudly serves patients from New York City and around the world. In fact, nearly half of our team speak Russian and/or Ukrainian, helping many patients feel more comfortable and confident throughout the process.
Dr. Emil Chynn and Park Avenue LASEK are built on a simple philosophy: openness, honesty, and mutual benefit. As a 100% non-cutting, non-invasive laser vision correction center in New York City, we believe that educated patients make the best decisions.
Unlike many vision correction centers, we encourage prospective patients to speak with former patients and even observe live surgery when appropriate. With the patient’s permission, we allow these conversations to happen naturally because we believe people deserve honest, firsthand perspectives about the procedure, recovery, and results.
Many laser centers keep preoperative and postoperative patients separate. Dr. Chynn takes a different approach. By encouraging open communication, we help patients develop realistic expectations so that we can meet or exceed them.
Our practice also embraces a “pay it forward” philosophy. Many of our patients choose to support and encourage future patients because they once received that same guidance themselves. We believe that trust, transparency, and shared experience are an important part of exceptional patient care.
Emil Chynn, MD, MBA, FACS Medical Director
Dr. Chynn is the most experienced & well-known LASEK surgeon in the US, has performed more LASEKs than any other surgeon in the US, and has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, USA Today, ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, Bravo, Howard Stern and Discovery Channel.
Dr. Chynn graduated cum laude from Dartmouth College and received his MD from Columbia University, the #1 medical school in NY. He completed his residency in ophthalmology in 1996 at Harvard and his fellowship in Corneal Transplantation & Refractive Surgery at Emory University. He then received his MBA from NYU with Beta Gamma Sigma honors. Dr. Chynn is also a member of MENSA, the organization that certifies geniuses with an IQ above 150. Dr. Chynn was on the teaching faculty of both Manhattan Eye, Ear & Throat Hospital and New York Eye & Ear Infirmary, ranked Top Specialty Eye Hospitals by US News & World Report.
Dr. Chynn is the only eye surgeon in the US who had LASIK in 1 eye and LASEK in the other, and who has performed over 5,000 LASIKs & 25,000 LASEKs, so is uniquely qualified to explain why LASEK is superior. He was the 1st eye doctor in New York to get LASIK (in 1999), but suffered from dry eyes & night glare in that left eye. This motivated him to upgrade his practice from this older cutting procedure to the newer, safer, better LASEK procedure. He then LASEK’d his own right eye to demonstrate to the world how much safer and better LASEK is than LASIK, and has no dry eyes or night glare in his LASEK eye!
Emil Chynn, MD, MBA, FACS Medical Director
Dr. Chynn is the most experienced & well-known LASEK surgeon in the US, has performed more LASEKs than any other surgeon in the US, and has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, USA Today, ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, Bravo, Howard Stern and Discovery Channel.
Dr. Chynn graduated cum laude from Dartmouth College and received his MD from Columbia University, the #1 medical school in NY. He completed his residency in ophthalmology in 1996 at Harvard and his fellowship in Corneal Transplantation & Refractive Surgery at Emory University. He then received his MBA from NYU with Beta Gamma Sigma honors. Dr. Chynn is also a member of MENSA, the organization that certifies geniuses with an IQ above 150. Dr. Chynn was on the teaching faculty of both Manhattan Eye, Ear & Throat Hospital and New York Eye & Ear Infirmary, ranked Top Specialty Eye Hospitals by US News & World Report.
Dr. Chynn is the only eye surgeon in the US who had LASIK in 1 eye and LASEK in the other, and who has performed over 5,000 LASIKs & 25,000 LASEKs, so is uniquely qualified to explain why LASEK is superior. He was the 1st eye doctor in New York to get LASIK (in 1999), but suffered from dry eyes & night glare in that left eye. This motivated him to upgrade his practice from this older cutting procedure to the newer, safer, better LASEK procedure. He then LASEK’d his own right eye to demonstrate to the world how much safer and better LASEK is than LASIK, and has no dry eyes or night glare in his LASEK eye!
Dr. Dovzhuk graduated from Sumy Medical University, in Ukraine, and completed her residency in ophthalmology at Kharkiv Medical Academy, and earned a PhD in retina from Kyiv Postgraduate Academy. She completed her Official SF Match Fellowship in Refractive Surgery here at Park Avenue LASEK under Dr. Chynn. In Ukraine she performed surgery for eye trauma, as well as working at the Ailas LASIK center in Kiev, and performing approximately 1,000 laser procedures of the retina and fitting ortho-K lenses. She is Certified on the Star S4 IR Excimer Laser and i-Design advanced wavefront system, and has probably performed more ortho-K fittings and assisted on more CXL procedures than any other eye doctor in NYC.
She is a volunteer for United Guild Aesthetic Medicine and Cosmetology, a public international association. In her free time “Dr. D.” enjoys painting and play with her cat Samantha and Tolstoy, whom she helped teach Russian to when he was a puppy. She has a son Gleb, who lives in Poland and parents in Ukraine.
Tarek Elnicklawy is Park Avenue LASEK’s practice manager. As the first patient in HISTORY to have his final vision predicted to be better than 20/20 by Dr. Chynn, he is an excellent resource to talk to about your future LASEK. Tarek always wanted to be free from contacts, but was afraid to get LASIK because he didn’t want his cornea cut in half. Then he met Dr. Chynn and learned that LASEK is non-cutting so is 10x safer than LASIK. One month later he got LASEK (after also getting nitrous oxide (laughing gas), Valium and FDA-approved ketamine to calm his nerves). One week later he was seeing 20/20, and 2 weeks later he was seeing better than 20/20 and better than he ever saw in glasses or contacts because he chose the “High Definition” option. Now he wants to share this miracle with everyone, and has referred a dozen friends and family members 😊.
With a double major in International Law and Criminology from John Jay College and a native New Yorker, Tarek has the gift of gab and loves helping people overcome any obstacles in their pathway towards Perfect Vision!
Britney is a New York Native who graduated with a Bachelor’s in Individualized Study in the pre-medical track from New York University (NYU). In 2019, she came to Park Avenue LASEK after shopping around for laser vision correction and decided to get LASEK herself. After seeing better than a “perfect” 20/20, she referred both her brother & mother to Dr. Chynn for their own LASEKs.
Britney has worked at Park Avenue LASEK as both Front Desk Manager and ophthalmic technician, and now serves as the Surgical Coordinator. She can also helpfully answer all patient questions from a fellow patient’s point of view.
Britney plans on attending medical school next year. In her free time, she has her own small business baking custom cakes for weddings, birthdays & events. She is also a Seventh Day Adventist and is active in her church.
Balu received his Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from Anna University in Chennai, India, and is currently a Graduate Student in Business Analytics at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). Balu is our Front Desk Manager and Business Development Manager, so helps patients get all their money back by referring friends, posting on social media, and setting up Corporate Discounts.
Balu is also a professional tennis instructor, which is how he met Dr. Chynn Balu was born in India, so is fluent in English, Hindi & Telugu. His father is a professional tennis player in India, and his parents own a pharmaceutical company in India. He plans to use his expertise in engineering and business development to help his parents run their pharmaceutical company, grow it, and later take over its management.
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