Educational Curriculum

Clinical Activities

The diversity of our practice, which includes both an urban hospital and suburban private practice locations, allows us the opportunity to expose our fellows to a full scope of pediatric ophthalmology issues. The fellow will work with the faculty in the evaluation and treatment of all patients.

• Pediatric and adult strabismus and amblyopia
• Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP)
• Pediatric and congenital cataracts including IOL management
• Pediatric and congenital glaucoma including Sturge-Weber syndrome
• Pediatric lacrimal conditions
• Multi-specialty effort with the rheumatology department in the treatment of pediatric uveitis
• Multi-disciplinary approach with craniofacial syndromes
• Screening of congenital anomalies and various genetic disorders
• Nystagmus, optic neuritis, pseudotumor cerebri and cranial nerve palsies
• Extensive amount of conditions occurring from ocular trauma
• Aphakic contact lens management

Surgical Activities

We’re all for reading and observing as part of the educational process, but we all know that some skills have to be practiced to be fully learned. And that’s certainly the case with surgery. If you want to be a good surgeon, there are no shortcuts. You have to perform surgeries. That’s why we offer our fellows the opportunity to perform a high volume of surgeries during their year training with us. Roughly equal time will be spent in the clinic and in the operating room during the year which leads our fellows to usually performing more surgeries, in almost every surgical category, than most of their peers in other training programs.

Also, while treating strabismus is an important and foundational part of a pediatric ophthalmologist’s skill set – and our fellowship gives plenty of practice to master it – we believe that fellows should experience as many pathologies and disorders related to pediatric ophthalmology as possible. Approximately 39 percent of the surgical procedures performed by our doctors are not strabismus cases and approximately 10 percent of those cases are intraocular cases.

Academic and Research Activities

• Assisting faculty with teaching ophthalmology residents clinical and surgical management
• Assisting faculty with teaching medical students
• Leading six pediatric ophthalmology journal clubs
• Creating and presenting two original lectures for residents and faculty
• Creating and presenting an original poster/paper at AAPOS’s annual meeting
• Dedicated time for research opportunities available. A few of the current studies include: ROP (Post-natal growth, Inositol), Pediatric Eye Disease Investigator Group (PEDIG).