Joseph M. Ortiz MD
Consultant in Ophthalmology, Abington Memorial Hospital, Abington, PennsylvaniaDr. Joseph Ortiz is a consultant in ophthalmology at Abington Memorial Hospital in Pennsylvania. He was formerly Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and Head of the Glaucoma Division and Associate Resident Program Director at Drexel University in Philadelphia. Previously, he held a similar position at Cooper Hospital – UMDNJ in Camden, New Jersey.
He is a diplomate of the American Board of Ophthalmology and a fellow of the American Board of Ophthalmology, the Royal College of Ophthalmologists (UK), and the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. He is a member of the American Glaucoma Society, the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, the American Association of Ophthalmic Oncologists and Pathologists, and the American Medical Association.
Dr. Joseph M. Ortiz earned his medical degree from New York Medical College, following which he did 1 year of anatomical pathology at Yale – New Haven Hospital, which was then followed by an NIH fellowship in ocular pathology at the Scheie Eye Institute – University of Pennsylvania, where he completed his residency in ophthalmology. This was followed by a glaucoma fellowship at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge, England. He completed a concurrent fellowship in ocular immune disease at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London.
Recent Contributions to PracticeUpdate:
- Neovascular Glaucoma in Central Retinal Vein Occlusion
- Temporal Raphe Sign as a Predictive Factor for Glaucoma Conversion in Elderly Patients With Large Optic Disc Cupping
- Outcomes Differences Between First-Operated and Fellow Eyes in Bilateral XEN Stent Implantation
- Disc Hemorrhages Are Associated With the Presence and Progression of Glaucomatous Central Visual Field Defects
- Bimatoprost Implant in Open-Angle Glaucoma and Ocular Hypertension
- Glaucomatous Progression After Lens Extraction in Primary Angle Closure Disease Spectrum
- The eyeWatch Device vs the Ahmed Valve in Refractory Glaucoma
- Diagnosing Glaucoma With Spectral-Domain OCT Using a Deep-Learning Classifier
- A New Definition of Glaucomatous Optic Neuropathy
- Optical Coherence Tomography in Severe Glaucoma Patients