Alex V. Levin, M.D., MHSc, FAAP, FAAO, FRCSC
After a pediatric residency at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, an ophthalmology residency at Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia, and a pediatric ophthalmology fellowship at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto he became Professor in the Departments of Pediatrics, Genetics and Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences at the University of Toronto. There he started the Ocular Genetics Program in 1995. He completed his Masters in Bioethics at the University of Toronto in 2001. He is the only person board certified in ophthalmology, pediatrics and child abuse pediatrics. In 2008 he returned to Wills as the Chief of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Ocular Genetics and established a new Ocular Genetics program there. He is now Chief of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Ocular Genetics at Flaum Eye Institute and Golisano Children’s Hospital and Chief of Clinical Genetics at the University of Rochester, New York. His clinical and research work is devoted to patients with pediatric cataract/glaucoma/uveitis, ocular genetic issues in children and adults, the ocular manifestations of child abuse, and ophthalmology ethics. He has published 311 peer reviewed papers, 162 book chapters, and has given over 1610 lectures worldwide.
