Dr. Yuna Rapoport, M.D., M.P.H.
Dr. Rapoport is a board certified and fellowship trained ophthalmologist who received her bachelor’s and medical degrees at Northwestern University, where she was part of the accelerated Honors Program in Medical Education. She simultaneously received her MPH (Master of Public Health) degree. She completed ophthalmology residency at Vanderbilt Eye Institute in Nashville, Tennessee and then obtained additional training as a corneal and refractive surgery fellow at the prestigious Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary of Harvard Medical School. She has been in private practice in New York City for over five years a has accumulated a wealth of expertise that she now brings to each patient.
"Working in ophthalmology has been an incredibly rewarding career. My favorite part is developing close-knit relationships with patients and co-workers."
Dr. Yuna Rapoport
As Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine, Dr. Rapoport is actively involved in resident and fellow education. At Mass Eye and Ear, she served as a clinical instructor for residents in the MEEI emergency room. She is affiliated with and holds privileges at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai, Mount Sinai St. Luke’s Hospital, Mount Sinai West Hospital, and Lenox Hill’s Manhattan Eye, Ear, and Throat Hospital, which is now a part of the North Shore Long Island Jewish Hospital System. In addition, she maintains surgical privileges at Retinal Associates Ambulatory Surgery Center in Manhattan. She holds a medical license in New York and New Jersey.
Dr. Rapoport is committed to global ophthalmology. Among the most rewarding of her experiences was researching the Aravind Eye Hospital in southern India, a model of outreach-based cataract surgery. She used her experience to co-found a nonprofit organization to help Ghanaian ophthalmologists start a similar surgical model in rural Ghana. It was during her experience at Aravind, observing cataract surgery and seeing the corneal pathology in southern India, that she decided to pursue ophthalmology as a career. She has since traveled several times to Nepal and India to do mission trips to teach phacoemulsification surgery techniques.
Get to Know Dr. Rapoport
Her professional interests include laser corrective surgery (including LASIK and PRK), cataract surgery, keratoconus, dry eye disease, and corneal dystrophy (including Fuchs’ dystrophy). Her work regarding advances in eye care has been published in leading peer-reviewed medical journals and presented at major ophthalmology meetings. While at Mass Eye and Ear, she published research regarding postoperative management of Descemet’s membrane endothelial keratoplasty (DMEK). She has performed research to validate the national criteria for ocular graft-versus-host disease, which was featured in the Journal of Cornea.
Dr. Rapoport is passionate about vision. She brings her expertise, delicate touch, and warm bedside manner and creates a customizable plan for each patient, whether surgical, cosmetic, or medical. She is a Diplomate of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, a member of New York State Ophthalmological Society and of American Society of Cataract and Refractive surgery. Dr. Rapoport has been named a Castle Connolly’s Top Cataract and Cornea Doctor by her peers and colleagues. She is a go-to ophthalmology expert for popular media, having appeared on Dr. Oz and Inside Edition. She serves as Chief Medical Officer of Luxury Optical Holdings, the largest domestic retailer of luxury glasses frames. She serves as a regular consultant for industry and for investment firms.
