Dr. Richard Gordon Weleber MD
Ophthalmologist
3375 Sw Terwilliger Blvd Portland OR, 97239Rating
3/5
About
Dr. Richard Weleber is an ophthalmologist practicing in Portland, OR. Dr. Weleber specializes in eye and vision care. As an ophthalmologist, Dr. Weleber can practice medicine as well as surgery. Opthalmologists can perform surgeries because they have their medical degrees along with at least eight years of additional training. Dr. Weleber can diagnose and treat diseases, perform eye operations and prescribe eye glasses and contacts. Ophthalmologists can also specialize even further in a specific area of eye care.
Education and Training
Or Hlth Sci Univ Sch of Med, Portland Or 1967
Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine 1967
Board Certification
Medical GeneticsAmerican Board of Medical GeneticsABMG
OphthalmologyAmerican Board of OphthalmologyABO
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Electrophysiological evaluation of children with visual impairment.
- Autosomal dominant Stargardt-like macular dystrophy: I. Clinical characterization, longitudinal follow-up, and evidence for a common ancestry in families linked to chromosome 6q14.
- Screening of the gene encoding the alpha'-subunit of cone cGMP-PDE in patients with retinal degenerations.
- Duchenne/Becker muscular dystrophy: correlation of phenotype by electroretinography with sites of dystrophin mutations.
- Visual acuity impairment in patients with retinitis pigmentosa at age 45 years or older.
- Novel mutations in XLRS1 causing retinoschisis, including first evidence of putative leader sequence change.
- Genotype-phenotype correlation of a pyridoxine-responsive form of gyrate atrophy.
- A new locus for autosomal dominant congenital cataracts maps to chromosome 3.
- Autosomal-dominant congenital cataract associated with a deletion mutation in the human beaded filament protein gene BFSP2.
- Disease expression of RP1 mutations causing autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa.
- Duplication-deficiency of the short arm of chromosome 8 following artificial insemination.
- HRG4 (UNC119) mutation found in cone-rod dystrophy causes retinal degeneration in a transgenic model.
- Mutations in NYX, encoding the leucine-rich proteoglycan nyctalopin, cause X-linked complete congenital stationary night blindness.
- Dominant late-onset retinal degeneration with regional variation of sub-retinal pigment epithelium deposits, retinal function, and photoreceptor degeneration.
- Ophthalmologic screening of deaf students in Oregon.
Treatments
- Birth Defects
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