Department

Ophthalmology

Outline of the department

Our clinic covers almost all ophthalmic diseases including cornea, cataract, glaucoma, medical & surgical retina, strabismus and pediatric ophthalmology. Top-level medical care in Asia is provided in Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus Service in our clinic. Also, we investigate genetics of severe and hardly treatable diseases including retinal degeneration and advanced glaucoma collaborating Department of Photomedical Genomics, Basic Medical Photonics Laboratory, Medical Photonics Research Center, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan.

Staff and specialities

Professor:

Yoshihiro Hotta
(Medical Retina, Glaucoma, Human Genetics)

Hospital professor:

Miho Sato (Strabismus, Pediatric Ophthalmology)

Lecturer:

Akiko Hikoya (Strabismus, Pediatric Ophthalmology)

Assistant instructor:

Katsuhiro Hosono (Molecular Biology, Human Genetics)
Yasunori Nagase (Surgical Retina)
Miwa Komori (Cataract, Glaucoma)
Kazutoshi Nojima (Surgical Retina, Cornea)
Nobutaka Tachibana (Surgical Retina, Glaucoma)

Resident:

Masahiro Ueda
Takahiro Usami
Yui Nagata

Graduate student:

Hiroko Suzuki
Kentaro Kurata

Orthoptist:

Risako Inagaki,
Mai Yamazaki,
Megumi Washiyama,
Mayuko Okita