Comprehensive Eye Care for Young Patients

Why Choose UH?

The eye is a complex organ, and the visual process is affected by many factors and diseases. It is important to seek a specialized, experienced team to care for problems related to your child’s eyes and vision. Working together with the adult eye experts at University Hospitals Eye Institute, the pediatric ophthalmologists, optometrists and other specialists form a unified team to provide the full spectrum of treatment for eye- and vision-related problems in children.

As a regional referral center for complex trauma and pediatric eye diseases, we are able to care for nearly all patients right within our department, without the need for outside referrals. Additionally, we routinely treat out-of-state and international patients who need specialized care for complex or rare diseases.

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Optometry Services

Our pediatric optometry team provides comprehensive vision care and co-management of pediatric eye diseases. We provide both routine and medical eye exams as well as follow-up care for post-surgical patients. Some of our areas of special interest include juvenile myopia (nearsightedness) management and progression prevention efforts, contact lens fittings and training, and vision care for children with special needs.

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Pediatric Ophthalmology Team

Our team believes in comprehensive and collaborative care for our patients, keeping patients always in the center of every effort. We are a multispecialty team made up of highly trained individuals dedicated to pediatric eye care. Our specialists include double-fellowship-trained pediatric ophthalmologists and a pediatric fellowship-trained optometrist. We also work alongside experts in other pediatric specialties to provide comprehensive care for conditions and diseases that affect the eye. This includes experts in, but not limited to, neonatology, craniofacial/plastic surgery, dermatology, developmental behavioral pediatrics, hematology/oncology, pulmonology, vascular disease, rheumatology, neurology and neurosurgery, orthopedics and more.

Our Team

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Our Technology

The eye is a complex organ. Therefore, specialized devices and equipment is needed to assess, diagnose and treat all the different parts of the eye. At UH Rainbow, we utilize cutting-edge technology – including 3-D ocular ultrasonography (invented and only available at UH Rainbow worldwide), optical coherence tomography (OCT), wide field photography, angiography, ICG photography, red free photography, and electrophysiology – to diagnose and treat eye diseases. With our Case Western Reserve University School of Engineering partnership, we develop and utilize artificial intelligence algorithms to understand disease trends and demographics in various problems.

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Leading the Way in Pediatric Eye Disease Research

The experts at UH Rainbow are at the forefront of pediatric ophthalmology research. Under the leadership of Faruk H. Örge MD, FAAO, FAAP, the team is currently running research projects regarding almost all aspects of pediatric ophthalmology, including retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), glaucoma, amblyopia, microsurgery, cataract, strabismus, nystagmus, genetic conditions, lid trauma, sedation, wound healing, and myopia. We also have offered many multicenter clinical trials that give our patients access to novel drugs, devices and therapies not available at other regional facilities. Our research and clinical trials have been funded by a variety of organizations, including National Institutes of Health/National Eye Institute, the Cleveland Foundation, Rainbow research awards and pharmaceutical companies (Regeneron, Alcon, Bausch and Lomb, Novartis, OPHTHEC, ORA).

 

The team has led collaborative research with NASA, Case Western Reserve University Department of Engineering, the University of Akron, Purdue University, and three outside engineering consulting companies. Collectively, the division has initiated patents for a novel glaucoma device, 3-D ultrasound biomicroscopy and 3-D ultrasonography, as well as filed several patents on drug delivery, eye imaging, wound healing, examination tools and other therapeutic technology.

The team continues to conduct research incorporating surgical and clinical databases, artificial intelligence, novel patient tracking/communication platforms regionally, nationally and internationally.

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