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Kimberly C. Sippel, M.D.
Primary Specialty:
- Ophthalmology
Language: English
Gender: Female
WCM Physician (What is this?)
Laser Vision Center
1305 York Avenue
, 12th Floor
New York, NY 10021
New York, NY 10021
Fax
(646) 962-0604Call
(646) 962-2020
Comprehensive/General Ophthalmology Services
1305 York Avenue
, 11th and 12th Floor
New York, NY 10021
New York, NY 10021
Weill Cornell Medicine Ophthalmology
1305 York Avenue
, 12th Floor
New York, NY 10021
New York, NY 10021
Fax
(646) 962-0604Call
(646) 962-2020
Weill Cornell Medicine Ophthalmology
36 Worth Street
New York, New York 10013
New York, New York 10013
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Specialties & Expertise
Specialties
- Ophthalmology
- General Ophthalmology
Expertise
- Refractive Surgery
- Laser Vision Correction
- Corneal Disease
- Corneal Disorder
- Laser Vision Correction Surgery
- LASIK Surgery
Insurance Plans Accepted
The following represents most of the managed care plans accepted by this physician. If your insurance carrier does not appear here please contact the physician’s office as they may have individual contracts not included on this site.
* indicates this physician is no longer accepting new patients with this insurance plan.
- AETNA - PPO
- AETNA - Medicare
- AETNA - HMO
- Aetna - Weill Cornell - POS
- Affinity Access
- Affinity Health Plan
- Blue Priority Network
- CIGNA
- Emblem Select Care
- Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield - NYPH Employees Only
- Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield - PPO
- Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield - Mediblue (Senior)
- Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield - EPO
- Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield - Pathway X
- Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield - Pathway X Enhanced
- Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield - HMO
- Empire Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield HealthPlus
- Empire Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield HealthPlus - CHP
- Fidelis Care
- GHI - CBP
- Health First
- Health Insurance Plan of NY (HIP) - Medicaid
- Health Insurance Plan of NY (HIP) - Medicare
- Health Insurance Plan of NY (HIP)
- Medicaid
- Medicare
- Oxford Health Plans - Medicare Advantage
- Oxford Health Plans - Metro/Core/Charter
- Oxford Health Plans - Freedom
- Oxford Health Plans - Liberty
- POMCO
- Rockefeller University - CoreSource
- UHC Compass
- United Empire
- United Health Care
- United Health Care - Medicare
- United Health Care - Community Plan
- VNSNY CHOICE - HMO
- WellCare Health Plans
Qualifications
Board Certifications
- Ophthalmology
Clinical & Academic Positions
Associate Attending Ophthalmologist
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
Associate Professor of Ophthalmology
Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University
Education & Training
- M.D., Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, 1993
Honors & Awards
1984 Cum Laude Society
1984 Herbert E. Teshemacher merit scholarship for Harvard College
1984-88 Harvard College Scholarship
1984-88 Elizabeth Cary Agassiz Certificate of Merit
1993 Alpha Omega Alpha
1993 Rudin Merit Scholarship
1993 AMWA Janet M. Glasgow Memorial Achievement Citation Award
1993 Louis Gibofsky Memorial Prize for Research in the Field of Immunology
2000-01 Heed Foundation Fellowship
2001-02 AOS-Knapp Fund Fellowship
Biography
Dr. Kimberly Sippel attended Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, graduating with honors in Biochemical Sciences. She received her medical degree with the Alpha Omega Alpha honor distinction from the Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons in New York City. Following two years of training in general surgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. Sippel completed ophthalmology residency training at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Harvard Medical School. She then completed the fellowship program in Cornea and External Disease at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, and is a recipient of both a Heed Foundation fellowship, as well as the American Ophthalmological Society Knapp Foundation fellowship award.
Dr. Sippel also pursued several years of vision-related laboratory investigation as a Research Fellow at both the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and the Schepens Eye Research Institute in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Sippel is a diplomate of the American Board of Ophthalmology.
Dr. Sippel is an Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at the Weill Cornell Medicine and the NewYork Presbyterian Hospital. Prior to joining the Weill Cornell faculty, Dr. Sippel was with Cornea Consultants of Boston/ Laser Eye Consultants of Boston and had an active teaching role at Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary. Her interests include laser vision correction surgery, corneal transplantation and cataract surgery, corneal disease and dry eye, and conjunctival tumors.
Kimberly C. Sippel, M.D. discusses the specifics of the cornea.