Burt Kushner is an American
pediatric ophthalmologist
Pediatric ophthalmology is a sub-speciality of ophthalmology concerned with eye diseases, visual development, and vision care in children.
Training
In the United States, pediatric ophthalmologists are physicians who have completed medical school, ...
specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of
strabismus. Kushner's contributions include demonstration of improved
visual fields of patients following strabismus surgery, elucidation of torsional contribution to patients with
diplopia,
corticosteroid
Corticosteroids are a class of steroid hormones that are produced in the adrenal cortex of vertebrates, as well as the synthetic analogues of these hormones. Two main classes of corticosteroids, glucocorticoids and mineralocorticoids, are involv ...
treatment of periocular
capillary hemangioma
A capillary is a small blood vessel from 5 to 10 micrometres (μm) in diameter. Capillaries are composed of only the tunica intima, consisting of a thin wall of simple squamous endothelial cells. They are the smallest blood vessels in the body: ...
, and novel hypotheses on the mechanism of "overacting"
extraocular muscles.
Training
Kushner graduated from the
Northwestern University School of Medicine
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine is the Medical school in the United States, medical school of Northwestern University and is located in the Streeterville neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. Founded in 1859, Feinberg offers a f ...
in 1969, and subsequently completed his
internship at
Evanston Hospital
NorthShore University HealthSystem (formerly Evanston Northwestern Healthcare or ENH) is an integrated healthcare delivery system serving patients throughout the Chicago metropolitan area.
NorthShore encompasses six hospitals, as of late 2021 — ...
,
ophthalmology residency at
University of Wisconsin–Madison Hospital and
fellowship in pediatric ophthalmology at
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute.
Offices held and honors
* Director of pediatric ophthalmology and adult strabismus service in the department of ophthalmology at University of Wisconsin–Madison Medical School,
Madison,
Wisconsin.
* John W. and Helen Doolittle Professor, University of Wisconsin–Madison Medical School
* Founding Editor-in-Chief, ''
Journal of AAPOS''
* 1992
Heed Foundation Award
* 1999 Senior Honor Award,
American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus
* 2005 Alfred W. Bressler Prize in Vision Science, awarded by The Jewish Guild for the Blind
* Dr. Kushner presented the first
Eugene R. Folk
Gene Folk (September 7, 1924 - February 28, 2003) was an American ophthalmologist who specialized in the diagnosis and treatment of strabismus. A charter member of the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus, he later serve ...
MD Endowed Lecture at the
American Academy of Ophthalmology
The American Academy of Ophthalmology (Academy) is a professional medical association of ophthalmologists. It is headquartered in San Francisco, California. Its membership of 32,000 medical doctors includes more than 90 percent of practicing ...
Annual Meeting on October 15, 2005.
Published works (partial list)
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See also
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pediatric ophthalmology
References
Feinberg School of Medicine alumni
American ophthalmologists
Pediatric ophthalmologists
American pediatricians
Israeli medical researchers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
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