Neuro-Ophthalmology Fellowship

Facilities and Clinical Experience

Neuro-ophthalmology clinics are held at the UIC Eye Center. The neuro-ophthalmology fellow will have the opportunity to examine approximately 35 patients per week. Examining lanes are specially equipped with Goldmann perimeters, F-M 100 hue and Ishihara color testing materials in addition to the standard examination equipment. Humphrey static perimetry, Octopus 101 kinetic and static perimetry and tangent screen perimetry are available as well.

Didactic Experience

Neuro-ophthalmology case conferences are held at the West Side Veterans Administration Medical Center (a departmental affiliate) one day a week, and a clinical case conference is held once a month in the neurology department at Cook County Hospital. The fellow is, therefore, exposed to excellent clinical material culled from these institutions.  Dr. Goodwin and Dr. Gilbert deliver a series of lectures on neuro-ophthalmologic topics to the eye residents and the fellows are encouraged to attend these and to develop lectures themselves. Neuro-ophthalmologic cases are also presented in the departmental Clinical Conference which is held on a rotating basis. In addition, Dr. Gilbert gives a series of neuro-ophthalmology lectures to the UIC neurology residents. She also rounds with the neurology residents twice a month to review interesting cases that have been seen on the inpatient neurology service. The fellow is encouraged to attend these lectures and rounds as well.

Dr. Goodwin maintains an extensive library of videotaped eye movement disorders that the fellow may review. Videotaping equipment, kept in Dr. Goodwin's office, is available for the fellow to record patients with interesting eye movement and other disorders. Also available is the infrared video pupillograph for recording pupillary and some oculomotor phenomena. Dr. Goodwin is developing an extensive videotape library of pupillary abnormalities.

Faculty

Molly E. Gilbert, MD
Dr. Gilbert graduated from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. She did her ophthalmology residency at Rush University. She then completed an 18 month fellowship in Neuro-ophthalmology and Oculoplastics surgery with Drs. Peter Savino, Robert Sergott and Jurij Bilyk at Wills Eye Institute. She joined UIC as an Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology in 2007. In addition to neuro-ophthalmology, she runs the inpatient consult service which provides an opportunity to interact with the neurology and neurosurgery teams and practice inpatient neuro-ophthalmology.

James A. Goodwin, MD
Dr. Goodwin graduated from the UIC College of Medicine and served his neurology residency at the University of Minnesota Hospital. He then completed two years in the U.S. Air Force, during which he was chief of the Neurology Service of Malcolm Grow USAF Medical Center. Following this, he performed a one-year fellowship in Neuro-ophthalmology with Dr. Joel Glaser at the University of Miami's Bascom Palmer Eye Institute. For the next nine years, Dr. Goodwin directed the Neuro-ophthalmology division at Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center and was on the Faculty of Neurology at the University of Chicago. He came to the UIC Eye Center is 1985 as Director of the Neuro-ophthalmology Service. He is an Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and Neurology.

Anil Gulati, MD
Dr. Gulati received his medical degree from Jawaharlal Institute of Post-Graduate Medical Education and Research, Pondicherry, India. He then completed his residency in Neurology at UIC. He did a fellowship with Dr. Goodwin at the UIC Eye Center. He then joined the UIC Eye Center staff as Clinical Assistant Professor in July 1994. Dr. Gulati is also on staff at Michael Reese Hospital and La Grange Hospital.