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Danielle M. Ledoux, MD

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EDUCATION

  • 1997, BA, Biology in Society, Cornell University
  • 2001, MD, Medicine, Emory University 

POSTDOCTORAL TRAINING

  • 07/01-06/02 Internship, Department of Medicine, The University of Massachusetts
  • 07/02-06/05 Resident, Department of Ophthalmology, New York University (NYU)/Manhattan Eye Ear and Throat Hospital (MEETH)
  • 07/05-06/06 Clinical Fellow, Pediatric Ophthalmology & Adult Strabismus, Medical University of South Carolina

CURRENT LICENSURE AND CERTIFICATION:

  • 2002 United States Medical Licensing Examination Completion
  • 2006 Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine
  • 2007 American Board of Ophthalmology

CURRENT HOSPITAL APPOINTMENTS

  • 2007 – Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH)
  • 2008 – Massachusetts Eye and Ear (MEE)
  • 2009 – Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)
  • 2015 – Beverly Hospital
  • 2015 – North Shore Medical Center

CURRENT ACADEMIC APPOINTMENT

  • 2007-Part-time Clinical Instructor, Harvard University

EMPLOYMENT

  • 2015- Present, Specialized Pediatric Eye Care, Beverly MA
  • 2007-Present, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston MA 
  • 2006-2007, Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus Associates, Providence, RI

CURRENT LEADERSHIP POSITIONS AND COMMITTEES

  • 2010 – Children’s Vision Massachusetts Coalition, Prevent Blindness America
  • 2015 – President/Founder, Specialized Pediatric Eye Care
  • 2019 – Socioeconomic Committee Member, American Association of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus
  • 2020 – Massachusetts Society of Eye Physicians and Surgeons, North Shore Representative

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS, CURRENT MEMBERSHIP

  • 2005 – American Academy of Ophthalmology, Fellow
  • 2006  – American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus, Member
  • 2008 – Massachusetts Society of Eye Physicians and Surgeons
  • 2009 – New England Ophthalmological Society
  • 2017 – Massachusetts Medical Society

SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY

  • 2006-2012
 Guatemala Surgical Mission Trip; 40-50 surgical cases per annual week trip
  • 2011
 Nepal Eye Hospital; Month long educational trip to work with Dr. Sabina Shrestha, head of Nepal Eye Hospital Pediatric Ophthalmology division
  • 2013
 Save our Children’s Sight, Boston MA; Advocacy day at the Massachusetts Statehouse (Sponsor: Children’s Vision Massachusetts Coalition), invited speaker
  • 2013-2015
 Member of the Board of Health, Salem MA
  • 2016-present
  • 2017
 Health Advisory Board member; Optineeds, Inc (http://www.optineeds.org)

Massachusetts Statehouse Advocacy Day (Sponsor: Children’s Vision Massachusetts Coalition); invited master of ceremony

 

RESEARCH CONTRIBUTIONS AND PUBLICATIONS

Teaching of Students in Courses: 

 

2005 Pediatric Ophthalmology Medical University of South Carolina
Nurse Practitioner Students 2 hour lecture
2010-2015 Core Medicine I Harvard Medical School
3rd year medical students 2-hr sessions 8 times/yr

 

Formal Teaching of Residents, Clinical Fellows and Research Fellows (post-docs):

 

2004 Surgical Instruction Course New York University
2nd year ophthalmology residents 4 hour training session
2006 OKAPS Review Series Medical University of South Carolina
Ophthalmology Residents 1 hour lecture
2006 Non-Accidental Trauma Medical University of South Carolina
Pediatrics Residents 1 hour lecture
2007 Pediatric ophthalmology lecture Brown Medical School
Ophthalmology Residents 1 hour lecture
2008-present Pediatric Ophthalmology Wednesday AM Conferences BCH
Ophthalmology residents and pediatric ophthalmology fellows; medical students on rotation 1hr sessions 2 times/year
2008 OKAPS review lecture BCH
Pediatric Ophthalmology Residents 1 hour lecture
2008 Non-Accidental Trauma MEE
Ophthalmology Residents 1 hour lecture
2010 OKAPS review lecture MEE
Ophthalmology Residents 1 hour lecture
2011 OKAPS review lecture MEE
Ophthalmology Residents 1 hour lecture
2013 Introduction to Eye Movements and Strabismus Surgery MEE
Ophthalmology Residents (BMC and MEEI), BCH Fellows Full day course and wetlab
2013 Pediatric Vision Screening MEE
Ophthalmology Residents 1 hour lecture   
2014 Introduction to Eye Movements and Strabismus Surgery MEE

2018

 Ophthalmology Residents (BMC and MEEI); BCH Fellows

Think about VISION! Lend Lecture: Fellowship in Leadership and Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities 

 Full day course and wetlab

BCH

 

Clinical Supervisory and Training Responsibilities:

 

2005-2006 Surgical and Clinical Instructor, Pediatric Ophthalmology Residency Rotation, MUSC A minimum of two sessions/week for ¾ or more of the fellowship year
2006-2007 Surgical Instructor: ocular trauma and strabismus at Rhode Island Hospital; cataract extraction at Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Providence, RI One day a week
2007-2015 Children’s Hospital Boston clinic and consult attending  1 session three days/week
2007-present Children’s Hospital Boston Ophthalmology Surgical Instructor 1 session a week until 2015; 2 sessions about every three months since 2015

 

Mentored Trainees and Faculty:

 

2009-2010 Erin Salcone, MD; Faculty, Dartmouth Medical Center

Career stage: resident, fellow.  Mentoring role: advice on fellowship choice, selection as well as career choice.
2009-2010 Sudha Nallasamy, MD; Faculty, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles

Career stage: fellow.  Mentoring role: career development, cataract paper.
2009-2010 Bharti Gangwani, MD; Faculty, Children’s Hospital Boston

Career stage: research and clinical fellow.  Mentoring role: career development, Down syndrome nasolacrimal duct obstruction abstract and paper.
2010-2011 Ankoor Shah, MD PhD; Faculty, Children’s Hospital Boston

Career stage: resident, fellow. Mentoring role: advice on fellowship choice, selection as well as career choice, research project on the PVS versus the Spot vision scanner.
2011-present Josephine Sandoval, OD; Faculty, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles

Career stage: faculty at BCH.  Mentoring role: career development; research project on the PVS versus the Spot vision scanner.
2011-present Srikant Sarangi; Research fellow at BMC.

Career stage:  research fellow/PhD candidate.  Mentoring role: career development; job advice; letters of recommendation.  Multiple year research project on the use of the QLS scanner to study aging of the human lens and beta-amyloid deposits.
2012-2013 Andrew Schneier, MD; Private practice, Orlando FL

Career stage: resident, fellow, practicing physician.  Mentoring role: advice on fellowship choice, letters of recommendation provided; Down syndrome project on nystagmus and optic nerve anomalies with resultant publications.  Career Advice presently.
2012-2013 Carolyn Graeber, MD; Faculty Boston Children’s Hospital

Career stage: fellow.  Mentoring role: career development both during fellowship as well as regular communication about cases and career during her years as a practicing pediatric ophthalmologist
2012-2014 Frank Weng.

Career stage: research fellow.  Mentoring role: career development/advice and abstract on refractive error and cataracts in Down syndrome patients.
2014-2015

2014-2015

 Luai Eldweik, MD; Faculty Jordan Hospital; Current position at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi.

Career stage: fellow.  Mentoring role: research project on surgical esotropia in Down syndrome patients.

Charlotte Gore, MD; Faculty, UC Irvine, Assistant Professor.  Career stage: fellow.  Mentoring Role: career development
2014-2015 Pavlina Kemp, MD; Faculty, University of Iowa

Career stage: fellow.  Mentoring role: career development
2014-2015 Jeffrey Hollander

Career stage: research fellow.  Mentoring role: career development/advice and clinical projects including abstract on surgical esotropia in Down syndrome.
2014-2018 Yashley Garcia

Career Stage: nursing student, ophthalmic technician.  Mentoring role: career development, letters of recommendation for school.
2015-present Alex Song

Career stage: undergraduate student at Brown University.  Mentoring role: career development including advice on being premedical/interested in ophthalmology and advisor to the starting and business ongoings of his non-profit organization, OptiNeeds, Inc.
2015-present Catherine Johnson, OD; Faculty, New England College of Optometry

Career stage: faculty.  Mentoring role: career development.
2017-present Barish Poole

Career stage: medical student at the University of Southern California/Keck School of Medicine.  Mentoring role:  career development, local sponsor of a rotation in pediatric ophthalmology.

2017-2018 Katherine Workman

 Career Stage: undergraduate university student at Boston University.  Mentoring role: observorship, clinical project at Specialized Pediatric Eye Care.

2017-2018 Mary-Magdalene Dodd

Career Stage: Pediatric Ophthalmology Fellow at Boston Children’s Hospital.  Mentoring role: career development

2019-2020 Christina Scelfo, MD; Pediatric Ophthalmology Fellow Boston Children’s Hospital.  Mentoring role: career development

Formal Teaching of Peers (e.g., CME and other continuing education courses):

No presentations below were sponsored by outside entities

 

2006 “Non-Accidental Trauma”&“Retinopathy of Prematurity” Single Lecture and Panelist
Anterior Segment Cataract Refractive Surgery/Medical Univeristy of South Carolina Kiawah Island National Ophthalmology Meeting Kiawah, South Carolina
2007 “Angle Surgery” Glaucoma Conference Panel Member
Department of Ophthalmology Brown Medical School CME Providence, RI
2008 “The Red Eye” Single Lecture
Frontiers in Pediatric Surgical Specialties Massachusetts Medical Society
2008 “Non-Accidental Pediatric Ophthalmologic Trauma” Single lecture
Pediatric Grand Rounds/Joint Continuing Medical Education Committee Lawrence General Memorial Hospital
2009 “Vision Testing in Children” Single Lecture
Frontiers in Pediatric Surgical Specialties Massachusetts Medical Society
2009 “Non-accidental Trauma” Single Lecture
Pediatric Healthcare Summit, BCH Framingham, MA
2009 “Unique Aspects & Eye Care Management in Down Syndrome Patients” Single Lecture
Update on Ophthalmology, HMS MEE
2010 “Ocular Manifestation of Down Syndrome” Single Lecture
Longwood Medical Area Ophthalmology Conference BID
2010 Pediatric Strabismus Single lecture
Pediatric Grand Rounds/Joint Continuing Medical Education Committee Lawrence General Memorial Hospital
2011 “Ophthalmology for the Primary Care Physician” Single Lecture
Department of Adolescent Medicine CME BCH
2013 “Infant Vision Screening” Single Lecture
Learning Communities, PPOC practices Wellesley, MA
2013 Ask the Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine Expert: Dermatology, Allergy and Ophthalmology Lecture and Panelist
PRIMED East Conference Boston, MA
2015 Topics in Pediatric Ophthalmology Single Lecture
Pediatric Grand Rounds North Shore Medical Center
2015 Topics in Pediatric Ophthalmology Single Lecture
Pediatric Grand Rounds Beverly Hospital
2016 Topics in Pediatric Eye Care Single Lecture
Partners Healthcare Lynn Community Health Center

2018 Demonstration of Eye Care for the person with Specialized Pediatric Eye Care, Inc

 Intellectual Disability; creation of materials for Examiner/Demonstrator/Interviewee

an online CME/CE program for ophthalmologists 

and optometrists.

2018 “What’s new in Children’s Eye Health?”

Ophthalmology Insights for Primary Care Providers       Waltham Woods (BCH sponsor)

 

Local Invited Presentations:

No presentations below were sponsored by outside entities

 

2006 Retinopathy of Prematurity; Grand Rounds
Department of Pediatrics, MUSC
2006 Retinopathy of Prematurity; Grand Rounds
Department of Pediatrics, RIH, Brown University
2007 Topical Ketorolac Tromethamine and Retinopathy of Prematurity; Perinatology Conference
Women and Infant’s Hospital, Brown University
2009 Retinopathy of Prematurity; Grand Rounds
Department of Anesthesia Children’s Hospital Boston
2011 Vision Screening Instrumentation and Pediatric Ophthalmology
Lions Eye Foundation
2012 “Inflammatory Eye Disease”; Grand Rounds
Department of Rheumatology, BCH
2012 Screening Technology in Pediatric Ophthalmology
Lions Eye Foundation
2012 Vision and Eye Issues in Children with Down Syndrome
Children’s Hospital Boston Down Syndrome Program Speaker Series

 

Report of Regional, National and International Invited Teaching and Presentations

Those presentations below sponsored by outside entities are so noted and the sponsor(s) is (are) identified.

 

Regional

 

2009 Strabismus, Pediatric Cataract & Retinopathy of Prematurity (invited lecture – 4 hours)

Maine Optometric Society annual meeting

Bar Harbour, ME
2012 OKAPS review lecture (invited lecture – 1.5 hours)

Ophthalmology Residents

Boston Medical Center
2014 Advocacy Panel for Children’s Vision (invited speaker)

Regional meeting of the American Association of Certified Orthoptists

Boston, MA
2015 Understanding Vision: Critical for Early Intervention Success

Massachusetts Early Intervention Coalition workshop

Framingham, MA
2015 Scanning for Amyloid in Down Syndrome (invited speaker)

Technology in Pediatric Ophthalmology workshop

New England Ophthalmology Society

Boston, MA
2016 Understanding Vision: Critical for Early Intervention Success (invited speaker)

Massachusetts Early Intervention Coalition workshop

Natick, MA
2017

2018

 Understanding Vision: Critical for Early Intervention Success (invited speaker)

Massachusetts Early Intervention Coalition workshop

Natick, MA

Understanding Vision: Critical for Early Intervention Success (invited speaker)

Massachusetts Early Intervention Coalition workshop

Natick, MA

2019 Understanding Vision: Critical for Early Intervention Success (invited speaker)

Massachusetts Early Intervention Coalition workshop

Natick, MA

 2019 Use of Iris Claw Lenses for Pediatric Aphakia (invited speaker)

Paradigm Shifts in Pediatric Ophthalmology

New England Ophthalmology Society

2020 Understanding Vision: Critical for Early Intervention Success (invited speaker)

Massachusetts Early Intervention Coalition workshop

Natick, MA (cancelled due to COVID 19 but meetings on workshop held and presentation prepared)

 

National 

 

2006 Pediatric Cataract Extraction with intraocular lens implantation: visual acuity outcome when measured at age four years and older (selected oral abstract)

Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus

Keystone, CO
2006 Pediatric Cataract Extraction with intraocular lens implantation: visual acuity outcome when measured at age four years and older (selected oral abstract)

Annual Meeting of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery

San Francisco, CA
2011 Current Concepts in Pediatric Uveitis (invited podium presentation)

American Academy of Optometry Annual Meeting

Boston, MA
2012 Why is an evidence base needed for changes in clinical care? (Research Committee Workshop)

Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus

San Antonio, TX

2018 Children’s Vision Advocacy (invited podium presentation)

Spring Meeting of the American Academy of Certified Orthoptists

Washington DC

 2018 Point-Counterpoint: Is it necessary to treat amblyopia before strabismus surgery?

Spring Meeting of the American Academy of Certified Orthoptists

Washington DC

2020 GiGi’s Playhouse West Texas Down Syndrome Health Symposium: Vision and Eye Issues in People with Down Syndrome. Invited lecturer, El Paso TX

 

International

 

2011 International Strabismus Symposium (invited guest lecturer)

Nepal Eye Hospital (supported in part by ORBIS)

Kathmandu, Nepal
2012 Outcomes of JIA-associated uveitis: visual prognosis in the age of TNF-alpha inhibitor therapy (oral abstract)

World Congress Ophthalmology

Milan, Italy
2017 Vision and eye issues in children with Down syndrome (invited guest lecturer- special session)

2nd Global Pediatric Ophthalmology Congress

Milan, Italy
2017 Surgical esotropia in Down syndrome patients (oral abstract)

2nd Global Pediatric Ophthalmology Congress

Milan, Italy

Report of Teaching and Education Innovations

 

BCH Ophthalmology Surgical Program Development of an attending assessment form for trainees upon completion of a surgical case.  Development of edited surgical video, attending specific, for trainee review prior to surgery.  Pre and post rotation assessments of surgical competency and confidence for the trainees as different elements of the surgical program were implemented (eg video, wetlab) with statistical evaluation of the additions (interventions) to the surgical education via the assessments from both trainees and attending physicians.  Results presented to the BCH Teaching Academy.

 

Educational Material for Patients and the Lay Community:

 

Books, monographs, articles and presentations in other media (e.g., video and websites, movies, television and radio) that educate the public about medicine, health or biomedical sciences 

 

2008; updated 2017 Vision and Down Syndrome Author National Down Syndrome Society Website Question and Answer Article
2010 “Should we change our eyeglass prescribing for children?” Author Children’s Hospital Boston Health and Science Blog
2014 National Children’s Eye Health and Safety Month Interviewee Kiwi Magazine
2016 Ask about vision Video Presenter Public Service Announcements (1 and 3 minute); Children’s Vision Massachusetts

 

Report of Scholarship

Peer-Reviewed Scholarship in print or other media:

 

Research Investigations

  1. Dutt JE, Ledoux D, Baer H, Foster CS.  Collagen Abnormalities in Conjunctiva of Patients with Cicatricial Pemphigoid.  Cornea 1996; 15(6): 606-611.
  2. Ledoux DM, Trivedi RH, Wilson ME, Payne JH.  Pediatric cataract extraction with intraocular lens implantation: Visual acuity outcome when measured at age four years and older. J AAPOS 2007; 11(3): 218-224. 
  3. Mehendale RA, Dagi LR, Wu C, Ledoux D, Johnston S, Hunter DG. Superior rectus transposition and medial rectus recession for Duane syndrome and sixth nerve palsy.  Arch Ophthalmol. 2012; 130(2): 195-201.
  4. Schneier AJ**, Heidary G, Ledoux DM*.  Optic Nerve Appearance in Patients with Down Syndrome. J Pediatr Ophthalmol Strabismus. 2013; 50(1): 60.
  5. Wong MM, Schneier AJ, Ledoux DM, Heidary G (2016) Neuroimaging Findings in Down Syndrome patients with Nystagmus. Journal of pediatric ophthalmology and strabismus 53(6):383.

*Senior Authorship

**Mentored Trainee

 

Other peer-reviewed scholarship

  1. Foster CS, Ledoux D. Types and Management of Ophthalmic Herpes Simplex Virus 

      Infections.  Herpes 1995; 2(1):  27-32.

  1. Fouladvand M, Ledoux DM, Barton JJS.  Ocular Myasthenia Gravis.  Comprehensive Ophthalmology Update 2005; 6(1): 25-36.
  2. Ledoux DM. What’s your diagnosis?  Juvenile Xanthogranuloma of the iris.  J Pediatr Ophthalmol Strabismus. 2008; 45(2): 76.

 

Scholarship without named authorship

  1. Pediatric Eye Disease Investigation Group.  Balloon Catheter Dilation and Nasolacrimal Duct Intubation for Treatment of Nasolacrimal Duct Obstruction after Failed Probing.  Arch Ophthalmol 2009; 127(5): 633-9.  (Member of the Investigative team cited in the appendix of the manuscript; contribution of patients/acquisition of data)
  2. e-ROP Cooperative Group. Validity of a Telemedicine System for the Evaluation of Acute-Phase Retinopathy of Prematurity.  JAMA Ophthalmology 2014; June 26: E1-E7. (Member of the Investigative team cited in the appendix of the manuscript; contribution of patients/acquisition of data)
  3. e-ROP Cooperative Group. Telemedicine Approach to Evaluating Acute-phase Retinopathy of Prematurity: Study Design.  Ophthalmic Epidemiol. 2014 Aug 21(4): 256-67. (Member of the Investigative team cited in the appendix of the manuscript; contribution of patients/acquisition of data)

 

Reviews, chapters, monographs and editorials

1.) Ledoux DM, Johnston S, Walton DS. Angle surgery: goniotomy and trabeculotomy. In: Kahook M (ed.). Essentials of Glaucoma Surgery. Thorofare, NJ: SLACK Incorporated;2012:260-272. 

 

Professional educational materials or reports, in print or other media: 

 

1.) 2009 Pediatric Views Bimonthly Publication to Referring Physicians – Ask the Expert Column

“How can pediatricians treat children with eye injuries; and when should a child be referred?”

 

Abstracts, Poster Presentations and Exhibits Presented at Professional Meetings: 

 

1.) Gaiser, Hilary, Moore, Bruce OD, Solaka, Nadine BSc, Ledoux, Danielle MD, Sandoval, Josephine OD, Shah, Ankoor MD, Rook, Caitlin MS, He, Ran BS.  Accuracy of the Spot Pediatric Vision Screener for Detection of Hyperopia, Astigmatism, and Anisometropia.  ARVO abstract 2014.

2.) F. Weng, O. Adebona, D. Ledoux.  The relationship of cataracts and refractive error in children with Down syndrome.  ARVO abstract 2014.

3.) A.-M. Lobo, S. Faez, M. Lo, G.N. Papaliodis, D. Ledoux. Ocular complications in juvenile idiopathic arthritis associated uveitis patients on TNF inhibitor therapy.  ARVO abstract 2015

4.) Jeffrey N. Hollander, BS; Luai Eldweik, MD; Danielle Ledoux, MD.  Surgical Esotropia in Down Syndrome Patients.  ARVO Abstract 2015

5.) Christina Scelfo, MD; Danielle Ledoux, MD.  Patterns of Esotropia in Down Syndrome Patients.  AAPOS Abstract 2020.

 

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