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Medical Services

Specialties

Programs & Services

Education

Undergraduate School

Rice University

1979, Houston, TX

Graduate School

PhD

Baylor College of Medicine

1984, Houston, TX

Medical School

Baylor College of Medicine

1987, Houston, TX

Internship

Transitional

Framingham Union Hospital

1988, Framingham, MA

Residency

Ophthalmology

Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary / Harvard Medical School

1991, Boston, MA

Fellowship

Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus

The Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute, Johns Hopkins University

1992, Baltimore, MD

Certifications

  • American Board of Ophthalmology (General)

Professional History

David G. Hunter, MD, PhD is Ophthalmologist-in-Chief and the Richard M. Robb Chair of Ophthalmology at Boston Children’s Hospital, President of the Children’s Hospital Ophthalmology Foundation, and Professor and Vice Chair of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Hunter obtained a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from Rice University and an MD and PhD (in Cell Biology) from Baylor College of Medicine. He completed an ophthalmology residency at Harvard/Mass Eye & Ear and a fellowship in pediatric ophthalmology at Johns Hopkins/Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute. He is now Ophthalmologist-in-Chief in the Department of Ophthalmology at Boston Children’s Hospital, which has grown to become the largest pediatric ophthalmology department in the nation and perhaps the world, with more than 40 faculty members including pediatric subspecialists in nearly every aspect of ophthalmology as well as basic research faculty studying the visual system in health and disease.

Dr. Hunter’s clinical and research interests revolve around the diagnosis and treatment of amblyopia and strabismus. In addition to numerous peer-reviewed publications, he is co-author of the books Learning Strabismus Surgery: A Case-Based Approach and Last-Minute Optics (now in its third edition), and his lecture series on optics and refraction is available free of charge on YouTube for ophthalmologists-in-training around the world. He is past Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus and past Vice President of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO). He is currently President of AAPOS, Fellow of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, Gold Fellow of ARVO, and Senior Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Named by the Boston Globe as one of Massachusetts’ 12 Top Innovators, Dr. Hunter is also co-founder and board member of Rebion, Inc., manufacturer of the Blinq vision screening device.

 

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Meet Dr. David Hunter

Publications

Having trained as an engineer before going to medical school, I realized that the more we learn about how something works, the better we are able to fix it. As a doctor and surgeon, I try to use those same principles, taking each case as unique, trying to understand as much as possible the nature of the problem before setting out to try to correct it. That approach can, in some cases, lead to entirely new treatments. But I’ve also learned that listening and educating is as much a part of being a doctor as any sort of medicine or surgery. Not every condition can be cured, but if I can at least transmit my understanding of the diagnosis and of what to expect in the future, then the healing can begin.