Pediatric Ophthalmology

Doctor's at Boston Children's Hospital are now prescribing a virtual reality device to treat children with amblyopia. Th e device, available to just a handful of U.S. pediatric practices, allows children to watch videos as a means of receiving treatment...

Faculty from Boston Children's Hospital, including Gena Heidary, MD, PhD, Eric Gaier, MD, PhD, and David Hunter, MD, PhD, are working with their clinical trainees and the hospital's Applied Engineering team to develop a 3-D printed surgical eye simulator...

Wentworth-Douglass Hospital teamed up with retina specialists at Mass Eye and Ear to launch a new Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP) program that allows infants to remain local while receiving specialized eye exams. ROP affects retinal development in babies...

Deborah K. VanderVeen, MD, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School and a clinician scientist at Boston Children's Hospital, has been elected to the prestigious American Ophthalmological Society for her distinguished contributions to...

On March 29, 2017, the Boston Children’s Hospital Ophthalmology Department became the first pediatric institution in the world to have the Macular Integrity Assessment (MAIA) scotopic microperimeter, an advanced ophthalmology diagnostic imager. According...