Neuro
The Neuro-Ophthalmology/Orbital Surgery Service offers comprehensive
consultations, medical and surgical services specializing in disorders
of the optic nerve, chronic papilledema, and orbital trauma. This service
has access to a complete medley of diagnostic testing including fluorescein
angiography, ultrasonography, visual fields and electrophysiology.
Some of the more common patient referral diagnoses for neuro-ophthalmology
include Graves' ophthalmopathy, optic neuritis, esotropia, benign and
malignant orbital tumors and nerve palsy.
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Alfredo A. Sadun, M.D., Ph.D.
Dr. Sadun earned an M.D. and a Ph.D. in neuroanatomy from Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He completed a residency and chief residency at the Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary, Harvard Medical School. He completed a combined clinical fellowship in neuro-ophthalmology at Boston University School of Medicine and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Sadun and a team of researchers at the Doheny Eye Institute pioneered research in optic nerve dysfunction in patients with Alzheimer's disease. His research and clinical expertise in diseases of the optic nerve made him the choice to lead a team of investigators that determined the metabolic cause of an epidemic of optic neuropathy in Cuba, 1993-1994. Dr. Sadun is a Professor of Ophthalmology and Neurological Surgery at the USC Keck School of Medicine.
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Peter Quiros, M.D.
Dr. Quiros earned his BA at Columbia University and his M.D.
at Yale University School of Medicine. He completed a residency
at the Los Angeles County/University of Southern California Medical
Center, followed by a Neuro-Ophthalmology/Orbital fellowship at
the Doheny Eye Institute under the direction of Drs. Feldon and
Sadun. Dr. Quiros is working to establish a comprehensive adult
strabismus center at the Doheny Eye Institute.
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