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#32
Score
70.2/100

Dr. Margaret Pfeiffer, MD

The practice site names this surgeon "Leslie Pfeiffer, M.D.," not "Margaret Pfeiffer" as queued; no page uses "Margaret." She is an oculofacial plastic surgeon at Key-Whitman Eye Center, a large multi-doctor practice based at 11442 N. Central Expressway, Dallas, Texas, with 13+ offices across the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. Her eyelid surgery page describes cosmetic and reconstructive eyelid surgery, tear duct and orbital treatment.

Practice
11442 N. Central Expressway, Dallas, TX 75243
Phone
(214) 220-3937
Website
keywhitman.com
Medicare eyelid ops
257, 2022-2024
Eyelid papers
10 in PubMed

Training and board certification

Source for all rows: keywhitman.com/doctors/leslie-pfeiffer-m-d

Stage Detail
Undergraduate Duke University (site calls her "an alumni of Duke University")
Medical school University of Texas Medical School at Houston; site states she was honored as the most outstanding student in her specialty
Residency Ruiz Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, University of Texas Medical School at Houston; voted "Outstanding Resident" by fellow residents
Fellowship Two-year fellowship, Oculofacial Plastic Surgery, Eyesthetica and USC Roski Eye Institute, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
  • Board certified by the American Board of Ophthalmology.
  • Member, American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, American Academy of Ophthalmology, Texas Ophthalmology Association, and the Alpha Omega Alpha medical honor society.
  • Site states more than 40 papers and abstracts published in medical journals, and presentations at more than 15 ophthalmology and oculoplastic/reconstructive surgery conferences.
  • Speaks Spanish as a second language.

Eyelid surgery work

The Eyelid Surgery page, practice-level copy referring to her in the third person, lists her focus areas as cosmetic eyelid surgery, reconstructive eyelid surgery, laser resurfacing, cosmetic injections for fine lines/wrinkles, therapeutic injections for spasms, treatment of tearing and lacrimal system disorders, orbital tumors, orbital inflammation including thyroid eye disease, eye removal, and repair of lacerations and fractures (eyelid-surgery). The page states: "Drs. Pfeiffer has earned medical degrees and obtained board certifications in ophthalmology from the American Board of Ophthalmology," and distinguishes an oculoplastic eye surgeon from a general plastic surgeon on the basis of fellowship training in eye-tissue surgery.

No page names specific surgical techniques (for example, transconjunctival versus subciliary approach, or named ptosis repair methods) or describes particular before-and-after cases attributed to her.

Related pages: Tear Duct Repair, Orbital Surgery.

A practice-wide Before and After Gallery page returned HTTP 200 but its photos load via JavaScript with no captions present in the fetched HTML, so it could not be confirmed to contain eyelid-specific cases and is not listed as a gallery (matching the empty gallery_url in the queue).

Other procedures

Key-Whitman Eye Center is primarily a general and refractive ophthalmology practice: LASIK, EVO ICL, PRK, cataract surgery (including refractive lens exchange and laser cataract surgery), glaucoma, dry eye and allergy treatment, and optical services, provided across its 29-provider team (keywhitman.com).

Insurance and cost

No page states specific prices or a Medicare/insurance coverage statement for eyelid surgery specifically. The practice's general marketing copy states "Most Insurances Accepted" site-wide.

Practice

Field Value
Practice Key-Whitman Eye Center
Main address 11442 N. Central Expressway, Dallas, TX 75243
Phone (214) 220-3937
Website https://keywhitman.com/
Other offices Colleyville (branded "Advanced Eyelid Surgery Center"), 6208 Colleyville Blvd, Colleyville, TX 76034, (817) 329-4480; Fort Worth, 3400 North Tarrant Parkway, Suite 110; Frisco, 11445 Dallas Parkway, Suite 290; Grapevine, 2201 Westgate Plaza; Greenville, 4501 Joe Ramsey Blvd. E; McKinney, 1501 Redbud Blvd.; Mesquite, 1220 N. Town East Blvd, Suite 220; North Arlington, 910 N. Davis Drive, Suite 400; Plano, 3060 Communications Parkway, Suite 205; Richardson, 3021 East Renner Road, Suite 100; Rockwall, 2380 S. Goliad Street, Suite 100; South Arlington, 400 W. Arbrook Boulevard, Suite 121
Other physicians 29 providers listed, including Jeffrey Whitman, MD (founder), Julio Albarracin, MD, Larry A. Fish, MD, Kate Lee, MD, Mark Stephens, MD

Not verified: the queue lists her as "Margaret Pfeiffer"; every fetched page names her "Leslie Pfeiffer, M.D." Street addresses for the North Fort Worth and Allen offices listed in site navigation were not printed on the fetched locations page.

Practice location

From keywhitman.com, read 2026-09-30. Prices and recovery times are quoted as the practice publishes them.

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The top 100 eyelid surgeons in Texas; Dr. Margaret Pfeiffer is #4

Medicare eyelid operations, 2022 to 2024

From CMS, Medicare Physician and Other Practitioners by Provider and Service, NPI 1679816862. Medicare pays only when the lids block vision, so these are the medical cases. Cosmetic eyelid surgery is paid by the patient and is not in this record. CMS leaves out any code billed fewer than 11 times in a year.

OperationOperations, 2022-2024
Upper blepharoplasty219
Ptosis repair16
Lid position repair22
Total257

Why #32: the score, line by line

Points come from sources read the same way for every surgeon. The method is on the methodology page.

SignalPointsOfSource
Medicare eyelid volume27.235257 Medicare eyelid operations, 2022 to 2024 (CMS)
Eyelid research132010 eyelid papers in PubMed, 3 since 2021
Training1515Oculofacial plastic surgeon
Eyelid work shown1525eyelid page; no eyelid gallery found
Teaching050 eyelid meetings taught from 2023 on
Score70.2100Rank 32 of 500

Eyelid surgery papers

Papers in the PubMed eyelid record that list Dr. Margaret Pfeiffer as an author, newest first. Search PubMed.

2026
2025
The Preaponeurotic Fat Advancement Pedicle for Correction of Upper Eyelid Volume Asymmetry: A Case Series
Conger JR, Pfeiffer ML, Lo C, Samimi DB · Ophthalmic Plast Reconstr Surg · PMID 39718136
2016
[Surgical Treatment of Medial Epicanthus by Skin Replacement]
Pfeiffer MJ · Klin Monbl Augenheilkd · PMID 26797887
2015
2014
[Surgical treatment of festoons]
Pfeiffer MJ · Klin Monbl Augenheilkd · PMID 24443133
2012
[Optimised frontal suspension for correction of complicated ptosis]
Pfeiffer MJ · Klin Monbl Augenheilkd · PMID 22241540
2010
[Challenges in the surgical correction of complicated ectropion cases]
Gündisch-Thomas O, Pfeiffer MJ · Klin Monbl Augenheilkd · PMID 20091445
2008
The significance of intraoperative measurements in acquired ptosis surgery
Gündisch O, Vega A, Pfeiffer MJ, Hintschich C · Orbit · PMID 18307141
2004
[Adjustment of eyelid level in levator surgery for ptosis. Surgical aspects]
Gündisch OD, Pfeiffer MJ · Ophthalmologe · PMID 15014964