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Dr. Robert E. Edelman is a board-certified ophthalmologist at Coastal Eye Institute in Bradenton with roughly 35-39 years of experience, having joined the group in 1994. He earned his medical degree from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (1987), completed residency at Montefiore Medical Center, and pursued advanced subspecialty glaucoma training at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary. His clinical focus is glaucoma and cataract, managing open-angle glaucoma medically and surgically while performing high volumes of cataract surgery, and he also treats presbyopia and dry eye syndrome. He practices from the Bradenton office at 217 Manatee Ave E and sees patients across the group's Sarasota, Lakewood Ranch, and Sun City Center locations, with hospital affiliations at Manatee Memorial Hospital, Lakewood Ranch Medical Center, and Sarasota Memorial Hospital. He is bilingual in English and Spanish, holds patient ratings around 4.8 stars, and is accepting new patients.