Neuro-Ophthalmology & Orbital Surgery

About Dr. Benes

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About Dr. Benes

Training and Education:

• High School: Euclid and Orange High Schools, Cleveland, Ohio
• College: University of Michigan, B.S. Biology, 1970 Teacher's Certificate: University of Keele (England) 1969 and University of Michigan 1970
• Teacher: High School Calculus and Physics, Ann Arbor Huron High School,
  1970-71
• Medical School: The (Women's) Medical College of Pennsylvania, M.D.,
  1971-1975
• Residency Training: Internal Medicine, Lankenau Hospital, Philadelphia,
  1975-1976
• Ophthalmology: Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia, 1976-1979 Fellowship Training: Neuro-Ophthalmology, Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia, 1979-80

Faculty:

• Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya, Neuro-Ophthalmology and Oculoplastics, 1980 (a member of the team from Wills Eye Hospital training the first residency class in Kenya)
• Graduate Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, and Wednesday Clinics at Wills Eye Hospital: Neuro-Ophthalmology and Orbital Diseases, September, 1980-October, 1981
• Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, Assistant to Associate to Full Professor: Neuro-Ophthalmology and Orbital Diseases: 11/81-present

Service and International Teaching:

• 1980: Kenya (Kenyatta University: teaching Neuro, Orbit, Retina;  International Eye Foundation assistant: teaching cataract and glaucoma surgery and helping do medical surveys in outlying tribes; Tumu Tumu Hospital and School for the Deaf: general medicine and surgery and ophthalmology)
• 1985: Ecuador (teaching microsurgery and providing instruments in Quito)
• 1987: Marshall Islands (taking care of the people with radiation exposure in the South Pacific)
• 1992: Honduras (addressing blindness in children and getting intervention from WHO and UNICEF)
• 1997: Mexico (physician for homeless and builders of houses near Tijuana)
• 1997: Republic of Georgia (S.E.E. and UN humanitarian aid after the breakup of the USSR, teaching surgery and assisting the surgeons there)
• 2002: Peru (teaching neuro-ophthalmology and orbital disease with Oncology & Infectious Disease)
• 2002: Galapagos Islands (addressing the blindness in sea lions)
• 2003: Turkey (teaching about new ideas in pseudotumor cerebri, complications of shunting, optic nerve sheath fenestration)

Services that Dr. Benes provides:

• Neuro-Ophthalmology diagnosis and management
• Surgery for Optic Nerve Sheath Decompression
• Orbital Surgery for Tumors and Grave's Disease
• Eye muscle and eyelid surgery for paralytic processes, injuries, Grave's disease, myasthenics with fibrosis, congenital and genetic problem

Hospital Affiliations

• Ohio State University Medical Center
• Columbus Children's Hospital
• Grant Medical Center
• Riverside Methodist Hospital

Insurances Accepted

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