Dr. Daniel Laroche is an author and glaucoma specialist in New York, Director of Glaucoma Services and President of Advanced Eyecare of New York. Dr. Laroche is a nationally recognized ophthalmologist as the former Chair of the Ophthalmology Section for the National Medical Association. Dr. Laroche has taken care of thousands of patients and specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of glaucoma. Dr. Laroche has performed thousands of glaucoma surgeries using the latest techniques and helped broaden many young surgeons understanding of the latest in the medical, laser and surgical treatments of glaucoma.  Dr. Laroche is an expert in interventional glaucoma including trabeculectomy and glaucoma tube shunt surgery.  He is a microincisional glaucoma surgery (MIGS) innovator and instructor, and offers patients the Hydrus Stent, Kahook Dual Blade Goniotomy, G6 micropulse laser.  He is the innovator of the Intrascleral Ciliary Sulcus Suprachoroidal Microtube Technique to lower intraocular pressure with improved safety.  This vast experience gives Dr. Laroche the unique ability to customize the most appropriate therapies, both medical and surgical, to the glaucoma patients that he serves.  He is able to identify patients at high risk of developing glaucoma and prevent it with early cataract surgery and microinvasive glaucoma surgery when needed.  He has been voted one of the top doctors in New York several years in a row and one of top Doctors in America. He is an exceptional glaucoma specialist and who possesses the best traits one would want in a medical doctor.

Dr. Laroche received his bachelor’s degree from New York University and medical doctorate with honors in research from Weil Cornell University Medical College. He underwent a medical internship at Montefiore Hospital and completed his Ophthalmology residency at Howard University Hospital in Washington DC where he was the chief resident in his 3rd year. Dr. Laroche subsequently completed his glaucoma fellowship at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary.  Dr. Laroche is board certified and a Diplomat of the American Board of Ophthalmology, a Fellow of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and a member of the American Glaucoma Society and New York Glaucoma Society. Dr Laroche has also written many articles and lectured on glaucoma, teaching other physicians, and participated in symposiums throughout the United States, and the world including the Caribbean, Europe, and Africa. Dr. Laroche is also the President Emeritus of the Empire State Medical Association, the New York State affiliate of the National Medical Association and has been an advocate for health care excellence, equality, justice, and diversification of the healthcare workforce. He has also received the Secretariat Award from the American Academy 0f Ophthalmology, awards from the City Council of New York for Outstanding contributions to New York City, Asclepius Medical Society.