Clinic Overview

The Minnesota Lions Children's Eye Clinic, University of Minnesota Physicians and University of Minnesota Amplatz Children’s Hospital have one of the country’s largest pediatric ophthalmology programs and provides care to children and adolescents beginning in infancy. Our pediatric ophthalmologists work closely with orthoptists who have special training in examining children. In addition, our ophthalmologists often collaborate with neurologists, oncologists, geneticists and rheumatologists, among other specialists, to provide care to patients who have eye anomalies that result from other conditions.

University of Minnesota Amplatz Children’s Hospital collaborates with the National Institutes of Health Pediatric Eye Disease Investigator Group on researching and incorporating study findings into treatment plans for various eye conditions. We also conduct research studies that affect international treatment protocols.

Pediatric Eye Conditions We Treat:

Our physicians treat common to complex eye diseases and injuries including:

• Amblyopia (“Lazy Eye”)
• Eye and periorbital trauma
• Eye problems related to other conditions
  • Developmental abnormalities
  • Syndromes that involve/affect eyes
  • Thyroid eye disease
•  Genetic eye disorders
  • Abinism
  • Chromosomal abnormalities
  • Retinal abnormalities
• Inflammation of the eye
• Arthritis-related
• Infection-related
• Optic nerve disorders
• Pediatric cataracts
•  Pediatric glaucoma
•  Ptosis (droopy eyelid)
•  Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP)
•  Strabismus (eye misalignment)
  • Turned out eye (exotropia)
  • Cross-eyed (esotropia)
• Tear drainage abnormalities
  • Blocked tear duct
• Tumors of the eye, eyelid and periorbital area
  • Hemangioma (blood vessel)
  • Retinoblastoma
  • Lyphangioma (lymph vessel)

A partnership of Fairview and University of Minnesota Physicians