Dr. Christopher Lee Blanton is a board-certified ophthalmologist specializing in cornea and refractive surgery with over three decades of clinical, academic, and military medical experience. He is a Surgeon and Owner at Inland Eye LASIK in Rancho Cucamonga, California, where he also directs the Cornea and Refractive Surgery Service. In addition, he serves as Adjunct Assistant Professor of Surgery at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and as Medical Consultant and Global Medical Advisor for Johnson & Johnson Vision, Inc. He is also Medical Director of Ocular Services at One Legacy Organ and Tissue Bank in Los Angeles. 

Dr. Blanton earned his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Notre Dame in 1982 and his Doctor of Medicine from the Medical College of Ohio in 1986, where he graduated first in his class, received the Glidden L. Brooks Award as valedictorian, and was inducted into Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society. He completed his internship in internal medicine at Naval Hospital San Diego, followed by service as Battalion Surgeon with the 7th Marine Expeditionary Brigade. He then completed his ophthalmology residency at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, where he served as Chief Resident, and pursued fellowship training in Cornea and External Disease at Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia. 

From 1993 to 1996, Dr. Blanton served as Director of the Cornea Service at Naval Medical Center San Diego, where his academic research won both institutional and Navy-wide first place awards and recognition from the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery. He has since served as principal or associate investigator on numerous clinical studies in corneal disease, refractive surgery, and laser technology. 

A distinguished leader in ophthalmology, Dr. Blanton chaired the American Academy of Ophthalmology's Refractive Management/Intervention Knowledge Base Panel from 2008 to 2013 and remains an active peer reviewer for multiple journals. He has been recognized as one of America's Top Ophthalmologists and received multiple honors including the AAO Achievement, Secretariat, and Senior Achievement Awards.