OUR STORY

A modern practice

built on precision and care.

Visionary Eye wasn't designed to be the biggest eye-surgery clinic in North Texas. It was designed to be the most thoughtful - built around a single surgeon, a small team, and the discipline of doing every case the right way.

Dean McGee
Residency training
Advanced
Refractive training
NASA
Research experience
Plano
Practice home
01 - Origin

The reason Visionary Eye exists at all.

After medical school at the University of North Texas Health Science Center, ophthalmology residency at Dean McGee Eye Institute, where he was the first Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine accepted, advanced refractive training alongside pioneers of EVO ICL, and time spent in NASA-affiliated research, Dr. Shehzad Batliwala saw an opening for the kind of practice he'd always wanted to work in: technically rigorous, deeply personal, and slow enough to do the work right.

Visionary Eye is what he built. A clinic where surgical precision and warmth aren't in tension - they're the same standard, applied at every step.

Timeline

The path that led here.

  1. University of North Texas Health Science Center campus
    01

    Training

    Dr. Shehz attends the University of North Texas Health Science Center for medical school, becomes the first Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine accepted into Dean McGee Eye Institute's ophthalmology residency, and goes on to advanced refractive training alongside pioneers of EVO ICL, including LASIK and presbyopia-correcting intraocular lens implants.

  2. NASA Johnson Space Center building
    02

    NASA Research

    Before founding the practice, Dr. Shehz gains NASA-affiliated research experience - work that shapes how he thinks about precision, safety, and how to bring high-reliability standards into a clinical setting.

  3. Dr. Shehzad Batliwala performing eye surgery in the operating room
    03

    Founding Visionary Eye

    Dr. Shehz opens Visionary Eye Surgery in Plano, TX with a clear thesis: build a modern ophthalmology practice that treats refractive and lens surgery as a craft, with the calm pace of a luxury hospitality brand and the technology of a research institution.

  4. The Visionary Eye Surgery building in Plano, Texas
    04

    Today

    Visionary Eye is one of North Texas's leading destinations for LASIK, EVO ICL, premium cataract surgery, and the full MIGS family for glaucoma - serving patients from Plano, Frisco, McKinney, Dallas, and beyond. Every surgery is performed by Dr. Shehz personally.

03 - The thesis

Eye surgery as a craft.

Most clinics scale by adding surgeons. Visionary Eye scales by adding precision - better diagnostics, more time per consultation, and a tighter team that knows your name. Dr. Shehz performs every surgery personally. That's the practice's defining constraint, and its defining advantage.

If you're considering vision-correction surgery, what you want from your surgeon isn't volume. You want focus. That's what we've been building since the day we opened.

READY WHEN YOU ARE

See what better vision looks like. At any stage of life.

Reaching for your glasses on the nightstand. Fighting contacts at the gym. Watching the menu blur at dinner. These aren't problems to live with anymore, and the only place to find out what's actually possible for your eyes is in the chair.

7,000+
Surgeries by Dr. Shehz
Board-certified
1
Surgeon. Every case.
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