Office and Contact Information

CHOC Children's Specialists
392 S Glassell St.
Suite 100
Orange, CA 92868
phone: (714) 289-2389
fax: (714) 289-2390
map & directions

Web Site:
http://www.choc.org/specialists

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Physician Bio

Division Chief for CHOC Children's Specialist Ophthalmology, Dr. David Sami is board certified in Ophthalmology. Following medical school and internship at UCLA, his residency in Ophthalmology was at the California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco. Dr. Sami completed two fellowships in Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus: A combined research and clinical fellowship at the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London, England; and a second at the Harvard fellowship program of Children's Hospital Boston. His academic and research interests include development of the visual system, motility of ocular prostheses, hereditary and systemic eye disorders of childhood, and retinopathy of prematurity.

Services provided include screening, consultation, treatment and surgery for: strabismus (children and adults), amblyopia (lazy eye), tearing eyes, infantile and childhood cataracts, pediatric glaucoma, traumatic eye injuries in children, complications of ROP (retinopathy of prematurity), periocular hemangiomas, ptosis (droopy eyelids), complications of systemic disorders: diabetes, sickle cell anemia, juvenile rheumatic disease, lupus.

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