Dr. Stanley Chang Receives Castle Connolly “Physician of the Year” Award

Dr. Stephen Trokel elected to The American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery Hall of Fame

Nurses at Harkness Institute win highest awards from Press Ganey for third year in a row.

The Department of Ophthalmology at Columbia University Medical Center is proud to announce the opening of The Gloria and Louis Flanzer Vision Care Center.

Pediatric Ophthalmology

Pediatric ophthalmologists are medical and surgical doctors who specialize in the eye problems of children.

Columbia Ophthalmology Consultants has a special division devoted to the treatment of children 15 and under. Eye problems in children require special attention, as the eye and general vision is still developing until age 9. A child can grow up with good vision if potential problems are caught early, treated and maintained.

Our physicians are specially trained in diagnosing and addressing eye disorders in children - from new born infants to older children.

Children experience a variety of eye problems, many quite distinct from adult eye diseases.

• Strabismus
• Amblyopia (lazy eye)
• Blocked tear ducts
• Ptosis
• Infections (conjunctivitis) (Move down to this place)
• Retinopathy of prematurity
• Visual inattention
• Pediatric cataracts
• Pediatric glaucoma
• Abnormal vision development
• Genetic disorders
• Congenital malformations surgically corrected by a pediatric ophthalmologist
• Orbital tumors
• Refractive errors
• Accommodative insufficiency
• Convergence insufficiency
• Visual issues in education, including dyslexia and attention deficit disorder