Dr. Dr. Calliope J. Galatis

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Get to know Optometrist Dr. Calliope J. Galatis, who serves patients in Massachusetts.

Dr. Galatis is an optometrist and member of the Vision Rehabilitation Service at Massachusetts Eye and Ear in Boston. She helps children and adults with low vision maximize their remaining sight with visual aids, such as prism glasses or telescopes, and helps them develop new techniques and skills to improve their safety and independence. She also provides referrals for occupational therapy, support groups, and other supportive services. 

Massachusetts Eye and Ear is an international center for treatment and home to the world's largest vision and hearing research centers. It is a member of Mass General Brigham and a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School. 

Mass Eye and Ear clinicians are driven by a mission to find cures for blindness, deafness and diseases of the head and neck. Internationally acclaimed since its founding in 1824, Mass Eye and Ear employs full-time, board-certified physicians who offer high quality and affordable specialty care that ranges from the routine to the very complex.

Alongside tending to patients at Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Dr. Galatis has a private optometry practice in Brookline, Massachusetts. Her clinical interests include macular perimetry testing to detect areas of vision loss; low-vision rehabilitation for patients with underlying conditions ranging from stroke, brain tumors, and age-related macular degeneration, to glaucoma and diabetes; and specialized contact lenses.

Throughout her academic career, Dr. Galatis graduated with her Doctor of Optometry degree from the New England College of Optometry. She then went on to perform her residency in optometry at Hadassah Hospital.

Following her training, she attained board certification in optometry through the American Board of Optometry. The Board’s mission is to advance the quality of eye care by promoting excellence through education, assessment, practice and professionalism, for the benefit of all patients.

Optometry is a health care profession that involves examining the eyes and applicable visual systems for defects or abnormalities, as well as diagnosing and managing eye disease. Optometrists are healthcare professionals who provide primary eye care through comprehensive eye examinations to detect and treat various visual abnormalities and eye diseases. Being a regulated profession, an optometrist’s scope of practice may differ depending on the location. Thus, disorders or diseases detected outside the treatment scope of optometry (i.e. those requiring certain surgical interventions) are referred out to relevant medical professionals for proper care, more commonly to ophthalmologists who are physicians that specialize in the tertiary medical and surgical care of the eye. Optometrists typically work closely together with other eye care professionals, such as ophthalmologists and opticians, to deliver quality and efficient eye care to the general public.

On a more personal note, Dr. Galatis is fluent in both English and Greek.

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