Thomas Eye Group is excited to announce the recent addition of Yuri McKee, M.D. Dr. McKee was the Medical Director at the Aerospace Medicine Clinic. He will be performing Cataract, LASIK and complex anterior segment surgeries. He will also be treating patients who suffer from corneal diseases.
Dr. McKee received his MD from Loma Linda University in California. He graduated from the New Orleans LSU/Ochsner residency program. During his residency he studied comprehensive and subspecialty areas of ophthalmology.
As a former flight surgeon, Dr. McKee served as a primary care, aviation medicine and hyperbaric specialist for the largest combat wing in the U.S. Air Force. Dr. McKee was honored with many military awards when he was stationed in Arizona and Japan. He currently holds a U.S. patent for the development of a novel: Sustained Ocular Surface Drug Delivery System.
“We couldn’t be happier to have Dr. McKee join our team,” says W. Kevin Thomas, M.D., president of Thomas Eye Group. “His dedication to his career and his patients makes Dr. McKee a commendable doctor and an asset to have on the Thomas Eye Group team.”


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