Prior to founding his own private practice, David A. Goldman, M.D. served as Assistant Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in Palm Beach Gardens. Within the first of his five years of employment there, Dr. Goldman quickly became the highest volume surgeon. He has been recognized as one of the top 250 US surgeons by Premier Surgeon, top 40 under 40 Ophthalmologists in the world by British journal The Ophthalmologist, as well as being awarded a Best Doctor and Top Ophthalmologist. In 2022, Dr. Goldman was ranked the #26 best ophthalmologist out of nearly 25,000 in the United States by Newsweek magazine.