Gary Wörtz

About Gary Wörtz

Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, University of Kentucky, Cataract and Refractive Surgeon, Commonwealth Eye Surgery, Founder/Chief Medical Advisor, Omega Ophthalmics, Lexington, Kentucky, USA

If you weren’t an ophthalmologist... 

I’d be a barista/coffee shop owner. I have been obsessed with coffee for most of my life. I have purchased almost every style of coffee maker, from drip coffee, to cold brew apparatus, to my latest investment in a commercial grade espresso grinder and machine. What I love about making coffee are the multitude of variables from bean, to roast and freshness, to grind size, pressure, and temperature. We are performing a complex chemical extraction, and the results can be fantastic with proper equipment and technique. Some days, I dream of opening a coffee shop by the beach upon retirement decades from now, where the worst thing that happens is that I have to remake a cup of coffee for someone.