Fellowship Training

The Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus Fellowship at the University of Iowa Department of Ophthalmology is part of a long tradition of educational excellence in ophthalmology.

In 1951, Dr. Herman M. Burian came to Iowa and began a division of ocular motility and binocular vision. He began training fellows in strabismus.   Many influential ophthalmologists came to learn under Dr. Burian including Bruno Bagolini, Albert Francheschetti and Gunter von Noordan.

Under the leadership of William E. Scott, MD in 1973, the fellowship expanded to include pediatric ophthalmology.  Dr. Scott developed a system of teaching strabismus summarized in the Iowa Strabismus Notes.

Since the fellowship’s beginnings, nearly a hundred fellows have come to receive specialized training in pediatric ophthalmology and strabismus at the University of Iowa.

Our fellows actively participate along side faculty in all aspects of medical and surgical treatment of pediatric eye disease and adult strabismus. They take an active role in all teaching conferences and journal clubs.  They also participate in department wide grand rounds, lectures and clinical conferences.  They are active in clinical teaching of residents, medical students and orthoptic students. Our fellows participate in on-going clinical research or initiate their own research projects and present their research at regional and national meetings.

Thanks to generous support from the William E. Scott Chair for Pediatric Ophthalmology Education, the fellowship holds regular pediatric ophthalmology educational conferences.  These conferences frequently include visiting professors in pediatric ophthalmology.

The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics are at the heart of Iowa City, a thriving Midwestern university town.  Iowa City is routinely ranked as one of the safest, healthiest, most livable, most educated, and most economically viable cities in the country.