A family practice, for two generations.
Dr. Konrad Filutowski opened the Filutowski Eye Institute in 1990 with one employee. More than 36 years and 225,000 Central Florida patients later, it is a multi-location practice still run by the same family, and still led by the surgeon whose name is on the door.
- Founded in 1990 in Central Florida
- 130+ team members across three offices
- 225,000+ Central Floridians cared for
- Two generations of board-certified surgeons
It began as a single practice with one employee. It grew because patients kept sending their families.
Dr. Konrad Filutowski founded the institute in 1990 and built it one patient at a time. What started as a single office is now a multi-physician, multi-location practice with more than 130 team members. The offices have expanded, the surgical technology has advanced, and the staff has grown. What has not changed is who runs it: the Filutowski family, led by its founder.
Today Dr. Konrad Filutowski is joined by his son Dr. Oliver Filutowski, a board-certified ophthalmologist, and by another son, Sebastian Filutowski, who serves as practice administrator. He still performs surgery every week and reviews the practice's most complex cases.
Over three decades, one practice.
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February 1990
Dr. Filutowski starts his practice.
Dr. Filutowski opens his first practice in an executive office building in Daytona Beach with one employee and his wife. He is one of the first in the country to perform "No Stitch" small incision cataract surgery.
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May 1992
Radial Keratotomy introduced.
Dr. Filutowski performs his first radial keratotomy. Demand for his clinical and surgical services grows, and he begins construction of his own office and surgical center in Daytona.
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March 1993
Daytona office opens.
The Filutowski Eye Institute moves into a new 14,000 square foot building. Dr. Filutowski becomes one of a few surgeons in the nation performing ALK, correcting high levels of nearsightedness and farsightedness.
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June 1996
Lake Mary office underway.
Filutowski Eye Institute purchases property along the I-4 Lake Mary corridor for a second office and surgical center. Construction starts a year later.
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August 1998
LASIK introduced.
Dr. Filutowski becomes the first surgeon in Central Florida to perform LASIK with a newly FDA-approved laser. Both offices continue to grow and employ more than 100 people.
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August 2002
Bladeless LASIK introduced.
Dr. Filutowski acquires Florida's first IntraLase femtosecond laser, one of only a few in the world at the time, and leads the way in offering patients all-laser, bladeless LASIK.
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November 2004
Orlando office opens.
To serve patients in south Orlando more conveniently, Dr. Filutowski chooses MetroWest for the third office.
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January 2005
ICL introduced.
Dr. Filutowski begins offering the Implantable Collamer Lens (ICL), helping patients with high degrees of nearsightedness that LASIK could not correct.
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August 2008
Lake Mary office expands.
The Lake Mary office begins an expansion, nearly doubling in size to 30,000 square feet.
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June 2010
The Rotunda opens.
Patients begin enjoying the completed Lake Mary renovation, which features a one-of-a-kind LASIK Rotunda housing the lasers used in refractive surgery.
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September 2011
LenSx laser introduced.
Dr. Filutowski acquires Central Florida's first LenSx laser and becomes the region's first and most experienced laser cataract surgeon.
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July 2012
Solar panels installed.
The Filutowski Eye Institute goes green, installing solar panels on the Lake Mary facility.
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November 2014
iStent introduced.
Dr. Filutowski performs iStent surgery, a new therapy for glaucoma using the smallest medical device approved by the FDA at the time.
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2017
First SMILE procedure.
Dr. Filutowski adds the Zeiss VisuMax laser in Lake Mary and Orlando and performs his first SMILE procedure, among the first in the country and the first in Central Florida. SMILE is the third generation of laser vision correction.
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January 2020
1,000 SMILE procedures.
Dr. Filutowski performs his 1,000th SMILE procedure, making him one of the five most experienced SMILE surgeons in the country.
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January 2021
55,000 cataract surgeries.
Dr. Filutowski reaches 55,000 cataract surgeries.
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June 2021
2,000 SMILE procedures.
The practice surpasses 2,000 SMILE procedures.
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2022
Over 200,000 procedures.
The practice passes 200,000 surgical procedures performed across its Central Florida locations.
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2023
Dr. Oliver Filutowski joins.
Dr. Oliver Filutowski, Dr. Konrad's son and a board-certified ophthalmologist, joins the practice and begins the second generation of Filutowski surgeons.
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2025
Light Adjustable Lens introduced.
The practice begins offering the Light Adjustable Lens, the first lens implant that can be fine-tuned with light after cataract surgery for a more customized result.
Our surgical philosophy: the safest, most precise, and least invasive treatment that achieves the best long-term outcome, chosen for the individual patient.
In practice, that means the recommendation is built around your eyes, not around a single procedure. There are five ways to correct vision surgically, and LASIK is only one of them. Our doctors walk you through which fits your eyes, your age, and your goals, and every consultation is reviewed by a board-certified ophthalmologist.
Independent, and meant to stay that way.
- Family-owned and physician-led, not investor-backed
- The full range of vision correction, from LASIK to lens implants
- Premium cataract options including the Light Adjustable Lens
- A referral network built with local doctors over three decades
- Two generations of board-certified surgeons
- 4.7 to 4.9 star ratings across all three offices
Three Central Florida offices.
See what two generations of experience can do.
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