The Pediatric Ophthalmology Program at UT Southwestern Medical Center offers comprehensive and compassionate care for children’s eye diseases, including office evaluation and surgery for common pediatric ophthalmic problems such as strabismus (cross-eyes), pediatric glaucoma and amblyopia (lazy eye) to rare eye diseases that affect children. Proper vision development is important for children and for their vision into adulthood.

Pediatric ophthalmologists at UT Southwestern use the latest diagnostic technologies to evaluate children with on-site diagnostic imaging, including:

• Retcam retinal imaging
• Diagnostic ultra-sonography
• Automated visual field analysis
• Strabismus surgery

Our pediatric ophthalmologists provide the latest treatments available, always mindful of the unique needs of children. In some cases, infants or children have disorders that stem from secondary diseases that relate to the brain or nervous system. UT Southwestern pediatric ophthalmologists often work together with top neurologists, oncologists and other specialists to treat children.

UT Southwestern researchers study pediatric eye conditions such as infantile aphakia and nasolacrimal duct obstruction. They conducted a study, funded by the National Eye Institute, which found that vision improvement is possible in older children with amblyopia or lazy eye.

Patients in UT Southwestern’s clinical trials program receive therapies years before they become available to the public. Parents should ask their doctor if their children are candidates for some of these groundbreaking therapies.