Dr. Milana Sapozhnikov

Dr. Milana Sapozhnikov is a provider at New York Laser Vision and sees patients aged 18 and older at the Brooklyn and Manhattan locations. Bookable visits include annual eye exams, cataract, diabetic eye, dry eye and blepharitis, glaucoma, IPL for dry eye, and LASIK or ICL vision correction. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Biology and Chemistry at Brooklyn College, graduating summa cum laude with a 4.00 GPA from Macaulay Honors College, where she was a William E. Macaulay Honors Scholar. She received her Doctor of Medicine at SUNY Downstate Medical Center, where she was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, and completed her ophthalmology residency there in New York City. Her surgical and clinical training came from ophthalmologists in cornea, glaucoma, retina, oculoplastics, uveitis and neuro-ophthalmology. From 2013 to 2024 she held several research assistantships under MD/PhD mentors, and in 2020 she received a Medical Educator Pathway Certificate of Merit. Her focus areas are minimally invasive glaucoma surgery, cataract procedures, vision correction, laser treatments and cosmetic work. With more than five years of surgical practice, she has performed hundreds of operations. Her experience covers dry eye disease, chalazion, hordeolum, cataracts, glaucoma, myopia and hyperopia, and diabetic retinopathy, hypertensive retinopathy and age-related macular degeneration. Her research includes a 2019 peer-reviewed study on sickle cell disease in Microvascular Research and a 2018 peer-reviewed study on cancer peptide research in Angewandte Chemie International Edition. She has presented research at meetings of the American Society of Ophthalmic Trauma and the New York Oculoplastic and Orbital Society.