Residency Program Director

PETER A. QUIROS, MD

Dr. Quiros is an assistant professor of ophthalmology at the Doheny Eye Institute, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California. He completed his undergraduate work at Columbia University’s Columbia College, where he graduated with honors. He earned his MD from the Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut, where he was elected to the prestigious medical honor society, Alpha Omega Alpha. He completed his residency training at the University of Southern California Department of Ophthalmology and went on to complete a two-year fellowship in Neuro-Ophthalmology at the same institution. He currently serves as director of the Neuro-Ophthalmology fellowship program and as Residency Program Director for the department of Ophthalmology at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. Dr Quiros is board certified in Ophthalmology and has been elected a fellow of the North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society.

His current projects include an ongoing international study in Brazil of mitochondrial optic nerve disease, the Prevention of Generalization of Myasthenia Gravis Trial, the Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension Treatment Trial, a study on the prognosis and complications of Graves’ disease, and development of new techniques for the treatment of strabismus. His research interests lie in optic nerve disease, diplopia (double vision), headache and eye pain, and paraneoplastic and autoimmune disorders, as well as orbital inflammatory syndromes, such as thyroid eye disease.

Dr Quiros is also engaged in ophthalmic education and has served as a member of the International Council of Ophthalmology’s team of instructors for educating ophthalmic educators to improve residency training outside North America. He currently serves as the English language secretary for the Pan-American Association of Ophthalmology.

Assistant Program Director

ALFREDO A. SADUN, MD, PHD

Dr. Sadun is a full professor of ophthalmology and neurosurgery at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California. He began his research on visual neuro-anatomy as an undergraduate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He went on to earn an MD from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York, after receiving a PhD in neuro-anatomy. After completing his research fellowships, he completed a residency and chief residency at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Harvard University, and a clinical fellowship in neuro-ophthalmology at Boston University School of Medicine, and at Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Sadun began his career as a full-time faculty member at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. He was recruited to the Doheny Eye Institute in 1984. He served as director of the residency training program for almost 25 years. He is currently the Chief of Service for Neuro-ophthalmology and Vice-chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology, Keck School of Medicine of USC.

Dr. Sadun has an international reputation as a neuro-ophthalmologist, vision scientist and residency educator. He won the Lighthouse International's highest award, the Pizart, for his work against blindness. He also received the Straatsma Award from the AAO and AUPO for his contributions to residency education. He was the longest serving residency program director in ophthalmology in the US and was the first president of the AUPO program directors’ organization. He has written four text books, contributed over 60 book chapters, and written more than 230 peer-reviewed articles.

Dr. Sadun's clinical interests are in neuro-ophthalmology with particular interests that include optic nerve diseases, visual function assessment, mitochondrial optic neuropathies, and orbital disease and tumors.