David Hunter | Medical Services
Specialties
Programs & Services
David Hunter | 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
David Hunter | Certifications
- American Board of Ophthalmology (General)
David Hunter | 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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