Optical needs, in metro Detroit, during the COVID-19 Pandemic

  We are proud to announce that our orthoptic student has successful completed our two year orthoptic training program. Nina Palomba, BS, COA has completed the intensive program as well as passed her written boards. This fall she will take her oral boards with the American Orthoptic Council to become a board-certified orthoptist. She will then join the Department of

Children’s Eye Care is proud to be clinical investigators for the Pediatric Eye Disease Investigator Group (PEDIG). PEDIG is a collaborative network dedicated to facilitating multi-center clinical research in strabismus, amblyopia and other eye disorders that affect children. This network is funded by the National Eye Institute (NEI) – a branch of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). There are currently over 100 participating

We won’t be dispensing/selling any patches during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, you can easily get them online. Amazon sells these patches and you can also buy them directly from Ortopad (and they’re currently not charging S&H). Also, please visit CEC’s FAQ About Patching page to see other vendors and even ways to make your own patches at home.

Dr. Rajesh Rao, pediatric ophthalmologist at Children’s Eye Care in metro Detroit and Chief of Pediatric Ophthalmology at Beaumont Eye Institute, was named Teacher of the Year by the Beaumont Eye Institute’s ophthalmology residents. Dr. Rao has been is also an attending at Children’s Hospital of Michigan, an Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at Wayne State University School of Medicine and Oakland University