Pediatric Ophthalmology
Stony Brook Children’s provides something that few hospitals do: comprehensive medical and surgical eye care for infants, children and adolescents, as well as access to every ophthalmologic subspecialty.
For children with suspected eye problems, early ophthalmologic evaluation by specialized experts can help target appropriate treatment to prevent vision loss. Pediatric ophthalmologists are specialized eye doctors with medical and surgical expertise in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of children’s eye and vision problems, as well as eye misalignment issues.
Stony Brook Children’s is one of the few academic medical centers that not only has a dedicated Department of Pediatric Ophthalmology, but also has subspecialists in neuro-ophthalmology, retinal, uveitis, oculoplastics, glaucoma and corneal diseases.
At Stony Brook Children’s, our Department of Pediatric Ophthalmology can address the full spectrum of your child’s eye disorders and vision issues, all in a child-friendly, family-centered environment.
Services
Our Pediatric Ophthalmology department utilizes the latest advanced diagnostic testing and ophthalmic imaging and provides advanced medical and surgical treatment of eye/vision disorders.
Our specialists utilize state-of-the-art equipment, including:
- Ocular ultrasound
- Retinal photography
- Optical coherence tomography
- Heidelberg retinal tomography confocal scanner
- Fluorescein angiography
- Automated and goldman visual field testing
- Keratometry
- Pachymetry
- Corneal topography
We provide high-quality eye care to diagnose and treat a wide range of eye disorders in infants, children and adolescents, with the ultimate goal of preventing vision loss and protecting the health of the eye.
Medical and surgical treatment is available for the following conditions, among others:
- Refractive error (need for glasses)
- Astigmatism
- Farsightedness
- Nearsightedness (including potential treatment with low dose atropine eye drops to slow the progression if indicated)
- Strabismus (eye misalignment or wandering eye)
- Esotropia
- Exotropia
- Hypertropia
- Hypotropia
- Ocular motor cranial nerve palsy
- Pseudostrabismus
- Diplopia (double vision; including potential treatment with prism if indicated)
- Amblyopia (lazy eye with poor vision in one or both eyes)
- Dacryostenosis/Nasolacrimal duct obstruction (blocked tear duct with tearing issues)
- Pediatric cataract (cloudiness or opacity of the lens)
- Infantile/juvenile glaucoma (high eye pressure)
- Ptosis (droopy lids)
- Conjunctivitis (pink eye)
- Corneal abrasion (scratch of the cornea)
- Chalazion/Hordeolum (stye)
- Blepharitis (eyelid inflammation)
- Infection of the eye and orbit
- Papilledema (swelling of the optic nerve)
- Hemangioma of the eyelid and orbit
- Nystagmus (eye movement disorder)
- Eye conditions related to a history of prematurity (e.g. Retinopathy of Prematurity)
- Surgical treatment of eye disorders and eye misalignment
Our Team
Our team includes full-time faculty Dr. Daniel Cyr, voluntary faculty, technicians and other support personnel who are all experienced in working with children.
The department coordinates care and consults with other departments at Stony Brook Children’s, including, but not limited to, General Pediatrics, Neonatology, Neurosurgery, Neurology, Hematology/Oncology, ENT, Genetics, Endocrinology and Plastic Surgery. Together, we identify and treat eye issues associated with medical problems.
Dr. Cyr works closely with the consulting service in the care of these children, monitors for complications potentially affecting the eye and vision, and recommends interventions when needed to preserve vision. This type of collaboration allows patients to receive continuity of care and to remain in the Stony Brook Children’s family.
Full-Time Faculty:
- Daniel Cyr, DO - Division Chief
Voluntary Faculty:
- Richard Koty, MD
- Michelle Levi, MD
- Maury Marmor, MD
- Eric Roberts, MD
- Pamela Weber, MD
Locations
Patient Resources
The pediatric ophthalmology team works in tandem with other Stony Brook centers and outreach efforts, such as The Glaucoma Center (the only center in Suffolk County dedicated to the total eye care of the glaucoma patient) and The Lourie Center for Pediatric MS (the first multidisciplinary center in the U.S. dedicated to the treatment of pediatric patients with Multiple Sclerosis, and today, one of only six centers in the country designated as a Center of Excellence for the treatment of children with Multiple Sclerosis).
Patients who use the pediatric ophthalmology services of Stony Brook Children’s have full access to the hospital’s support programming.
Research and Education
As an academic medical center, Stony Brook Children’s has the privilege of training the next generation of physicians—something that also brings many benefits to hospital patients including access to the latest protocols and procedures and some of the best minds in medicine.
The Stony Brook Ophthalmology Residency is a fully accredited training program. The ophthalmology residents spend part of their time working on the pediatric ophthalmology service during their clinical and surgical rotations.
Our faculty is also actively involved in educating medical students, residents and fellows at Stony Brook University Medical Center through lectures, seminars and clinical rotations. The department regularly offers Grand Rounds that are widely attended by ophthalmologists in the community and Suffolk County.
