Biography
Irene Gottlob, MD, Univ Doz, FRCOphth
Professor of Neurology
Ophthalmologist
Education and Training
| Graduate School: | Univ Doz, Ophthalmology, University of Vienna, Austria |
| Medical School: | Medical School, University of Vienna, Austria |
| Residency: | Medicine - Second University Medical Clinic, Vienna, Austria, Ophthalmology - First University Eye Clinic, University of Vienna, Austria |
| Fellowship: | Research Fellow - Institute for General and Comparative Physiology, University of Vienna, Research Fellow - Max Planck Institute for Physiological and Clinical Research, Bad Nauheim-Frankfurt/M., Germany, Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus - Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, Oculoplastic Surgery and Orbital Diagnosis - Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, Neuro-ophthalmology - Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia, PA |
Board Certifications
- Austrian Medical Association (Certified Specialist in Ophthalmology)
Memberships
- Albinism Europe
- American College of Surgeons
- Aniridia UK
- Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology
- British Eye Study Group
- British Island Neuro-ophthalmology Club
- European Neuro-ophthalmology Society
- European Strabological Association
- International Society for Genetic Eye Disease
- International Strabological Association
- Max-Kade Foundation
- Midland Ophthalmological Society
- Nystagmus Network
- UK
- Vision 2020
About Me
Dr. Irene Gottlob graduated from the Medical School of the University of Vienna, Austria, where she also completed her training in ophthalmology. She spent three years of research in the physiology of the visual system at the University of Vienna and then at the Max-Planck Institute for Physiological and Clinical Research in Bad Nauheim, Germany. During this time, she became greatly attracted to the study of the connection between the eyes and the brain. She then undertook clinical and research fellowships in pediatric ophthalmology, neuro-ophthalmology, and oculoplastic ophthalmology at Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia, PA. She obtained the Habilitation (Univ Doz title) at the University of Vienna in 1990.
Prior to joining Cooper University Health Care, she was Professor and Chair in Ophthalmology at the University of Leicester and before that she was Head of Department of Strabismus and Neuro-Ophthalmology at St. Gall, Switzerland.
Her clinical subspecialties are pediatric and neuro-ophthalmology. She has led a large nystagmus clinic offering investigations of eye movements, genetics, and retinal abnormalities including optical coherence tomography at all ages, including infants and young children who cannot cooperate with standard techniques. Her clinical interests include amblyopia and strabismus.
Dr. Gottlob has published more than 210 articles and book chapters and is on the editorial board of several scientific journals. She is an enthusiastic teacher of clinical and research students and trainees.