About Mid-North Eye Center

Mid-North Eye Center offers humanistic, patient friendly eye care in convenient mid-north location near the Lake and Wilson Avenue at Weiss Memorial Hospital’s Blum Professional Office Building.

Stone Eye Center - our original name - reflected Dr. Stone’s personal commitment to each patient.  Now however, with the shift from solo ophthalmology to a multi-subspecialty ophthalmology group, we’ve changed the name to Mid-North Eye Center.  Our personal commitment to do the best we can for each patient we see has not changed.

Lawrence Stone, M.D., did both residency training and residency training at U. of Chicago. The University Chicago medical school and Hospital systems are nationally regarded centers of excellence, and are unrivaled in Chicago.  He also completed prestigious fellowships at Will’s University in Philadelphia and McGill University in Montreal, Canada.  Academic affiliations have included U. of Chicago, Illinois Eye Institute and Loyola University.

Dr. Stone is one of the most accomplished full-time private practice ophthalmologist in the city based on his lectures, list of publications, consulting background, his clinical acumen, and his surgical skill. His appointment as Chairman of Ophthalmology at Weiss Hospital reflects his leadership role within its Department of Surgery.

Lawrence Stone's academic approach to ophthalmology includes an insatiable drive to do what is best for his patients. Keeping up with the latest developments, he has pioneered or taken a leadership role in adapting new techniques to Chicago ophthalmology, including balloon dacryoplasty, the self-retaining canilicular stent, the Pascal Dynamic Countour Tonometer, fibrin glue autograph technique for pterygium surgery, blood flow monitoring in early glaucoma detection, and the Optonol glaucoma shunt surgery for advanced stages of glaucoma.   Dr. Stone is also one of the first glaucoma specialists in Chicago to user nerve fiber imaging as a way to make the earliest possible diagnosis of glaucoma.

Herbert Becker, M.D.  is a retinal specialist with an interest in diabetic retinopathy and macular degeneration. He also has an interest in pediatric ophthalmology and strabismus.   He trained at U. of Illinois in Chicago.

Roni Lee, O.D.  does general optometry including vision care and contact lens fittings.
She did college at Brown University and optometry at the Illinois College of Optometry.

Patient Guide to Mid-North Eye Center.