1st Edition

The Wills Eye Strabismus Surgery Handbook

By Leonard Nelson, Alex Levin Copyright 2015
128 Pages
by CRC Press

128 Pages
by CRC Press

Although residents and pediatric ophthalmology fellows examine patients in the clinic, they may not be involved in surgery on the same patients and even less often get to follow the progress of these patients postoperatively. The Wills Eye Strabismus Surgery Handbook is designed to address this challenge in residency and fellowship education as a manual focused on developing surgical plans for... Read more
Acknowledgments

About the Editors

Contributing Authors

Preface

Foreword by Stephen P. Kraft, MD, FRCSC

Abbreviations

Chapter 1 Approach to Strabismus Surgery Decision Making

Leonard B. Nelson, MD, MBA

Chapter 2 Esotropia

Scott Olitsky, MD

Chapter 3 Exotropia

Daniel T. Weaver, MD

Chapter 4 Dissociated Vertical Deviation

Sepideh Tara Rousta, MD

Chapter 5 Cranial Nerve Palsies

Mary O'Hara, MD

Chapter 6 Strabismus Syndromes

Mark A. Steele, MD

Chapter 7 Strabismus in Systemic Disease

Miles J. Burke, MD

Chapter 8 Other Complex Strabismus Cases

Kammi Gunton, MD

Chapter 9 Reoperations

Rudolph S. Wagner, MD

Chapter 10 Nystagmus

Leonard B. Nelson, MD, MBA

Financial Disclosures

Index

Biography

Leonard B. Nelson, MD, MBA, received a BA in biology from Columbia University and his MD from Harvard Medical School. Following a surgical internship at Harvard, he completed his ophthalmology residency at New York University Bellevue Hospital Medical Center. He went on to complete a 1-year fellowship in Pediatric Ophthalmology at the Children’s National Medical Center and a 1-year fellowship in ocular genetics at the Wilmer Institute. He obtained his MBA at St. Joseph’s University. Dr. Nelson is the Director of the Strabismus Center and the Co-Director of the Pediatric Ophthalmology and Ocular Genetics Department at Wills Eye Hospital.
 
Alex V. Levin, M.D., MHSc, FAAP, FAAO, FRCSC, was a child abuse pediatrician following completion of a pediatric residency at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. He then completed an ophthalmology residency at Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia, followed by a pediatric ophthalmology fellowship at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, where he returned to become a professor in the Departments of Pediatrics, Genetics and Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences at the University of Toronto while working as a staff ophthalmologist at The Hospital for Sick Children for over 16 years. There he was the Fellowship Director for 15 years and, with his colleagues, started the Strabismus Nights, which became the inspiration for this book. He is one of fewer than 10 double-boarded pediatrician-pediatric ophthalmologists in the world. In 2001, he obtained his master’s degree in bioethics. In 2008, he returned to Wills Eye Hospital as the Chief of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Ocular Genetics.