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:

Hiroki Kaneko (Surgical retina, Diabetic retinopathy)

Professor emeritus:

Yoshihiro Hotta
(Medical Retina, Glaucoma, Human Genetics)

Visiting professor:

Miho Sato (Strabismus, Pediatric Ophthalmology)

Associate professor:

Akiko Hikoya (Strabismus, Pediatric Ophthalmology)

Senior assistant professor:

Miwa Komori (Strabismus, Pediatric Ophthalmology)

Assistant professor:

Nobutaka Tachibana (Surgical Retina, Glaucoma)
Kaoruko Torii(Inherited retinal dystrophy, Human Genetics)
Masakazu Takayama(Cornea, Clinical Electrophysiology of Vision)

Clinical Assistant Professor:

Akari Arakawa(Strabismus, Pediatric Ophthalmology)

Medical staff:

Kosuke Aonuma

Resident:

Maki Suzuki
Masahiro Ito
Toshiya Nakajima
Syuta Aoshima
Shinichi Ogasawara

Graduate student:

Shinji Arai

Orthoptist:

Risako Inagaki
Takashi Haseoka
Tomohiro Kurita
Ami Hayashi
Anna Maeda
Ryo Kumagai