Dr. Christopher Anthony Girkin MD
Ophthalmologist
619 19th Street South Birmingham AL, 35233Rating
5/5
About
Dr. Christopher Girkin is an ophthalmologist practicing in Birmingham, AL. Dr. Girkin specializes in eye and vision care. As an ophthalmologist, Dr. Girkin 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. Girkin 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
Univ of Ar Coll of Med, Little Rock Ar 1993
University of Arkansas College of Medicine,Little Rock, Ar, United States 1993
Board Certification
OphthalmologyAmerican Board of OphthalmologyABO
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Prevalence of periocular depigmentation after repeated botulinum toxin A injections in African American patients.
- Visual environmental rotation: a novel disorder of visiospatial integration.
- Visual dysfunction in patients receiving vigabatrin: clinical and electrophysiologic findings.
- Evisceration: a new technique of trans-scleral implant placement.
- Reproducibility of nerve fiber layer thickness measurements by use of optical coherence tomography.
- Central disorders of vision in humans.
- Strategies for neuroprotection.
- Optic disc morphology after AAION.
- The role of neuroimaging studies in normal-pressure glaucoma.
- Ocular trauma-related glaucoma.
- Environmental tilt illusion as the only symptom of a thalamic astrocytoma.
- Is reading disability likely to interfere with glaucoma screening of adults using frequency-doubling technology perimetry?
- Racial differences in the association between optic disc topography and early glaucoma.
- Relationship between structure of optic nerve/nerve fiber layer and functional measurements in glaucoma.
Treatments
- Glaucoma
Professional Memberships
- Fellow American Academy of Ophthalmology
Fellowships
- Wilmer Eye Institute & Shiley Eye Center 1997
- Wilmer Eye Inst At Johns Hopkins Hosp, Neuro-Ophthalmology 1997
- Shiley Eye Ctr, Glaucoma 1998
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