Chair, Department of Ophthalmology, Northwestern University Medical School
Ophthalmology
Dr. Nicholas J. Volpe, MD
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Nicholas J. Volpe works in the field of Ophthalmology. He went to medical school at State University of New York Downstate Medical Center College of Medicine. He received awards:"America's Top Doctors", "Chicago Magazine: Top Doctors", "Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification", "Philadelphia Magazine", "Super Doctor" and "Fellow (FAAO)". Nicholas Volpe is a published doctor. He has 99 papers published. The most current publication "Prominent proptosis in childhood thyroid eye disease." He accepts all Medicare patients.
Publications
- Ophthalmic Manifestations of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (An American Ophthalmological Society Thesis).
- A Novel Computerized Portable Pupillometer Detects and Quantifies Relative Afferent Pupillary Defects.
- Do patients with neurologically isolated ocular motor cranial nerve palsies require prompt neuroimaging?
- The role of orbital ultrasonography in distinguishing papilledema from pseudopapilledema.
- The Effect of Amblyopia on Visual-Auditory Speech Perception: Why Mothers May Say "Look At Me When I'm Talking To You"
- Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension: Important Questions Answered With More to Come.
- A school of red herring.
- Adult Ophthalmology Inpatient Consults at a Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital.
- Associations of Injurious Falls and Self-Reported Incapacities: Analysis of the National Health Interview Survey.
- Effectiveness of medial rectus advancement alone or in combination with resection or lateral rectus recession in the management of consecutive Exotropia.
- Isolated Third, Fourth, and Sixth Cranial Nerve Palsies from Presumed MicroVascular versus Other Causes: A Prospective Study.
- A Case of Extraocular Muscle Enlargement Causing Diplopia: Thinking Beyond Thyroid Eye Disease.
- Correlation Between Intereye Difference in Visual Field Mean Deviation Values and Relative Afferent Pupillary Response as Measured by an Automated Pupillometer in Subj...
- Surgical management of vertical ocular misalignment in thyroid eye Disease using an adjustable suture technique.
- How should patients with indirect traumatic Optic neuropathy be treated?
- Success of prisms in the management of Diplopia due to fourth nerve palsy.
- Paralytic strabismus: third, fourth, and sixth nerve palsy.
- Ophthalmology resident selection: current trends in selection criteria and improving the process.
- Evaluation of the virtual mentor cataract training program.
- Approach to Optic neuropathies: clinical update.
- Intracranial malignancies occurring more than 20 years after radiation therapy for pituitary adenoma.
- Functional Visual loss in idiopathic intracranial hypertension.
- Clinical reasoning: a 36-year-old man with vertical Diplopia.
- Optic neuritis and risk of MS: differential diagnosis and management.
- The Optic neuritis treatment trial: a definitive answer and profound impact with unexpected results.
- Safety and efficacy of gene transfer for Leber's congenital amaurosis.
- Atypical necrotizing scleritis after strabismus surgery.
- Efficacy of corticosteroids and external beam radiation in the management of moderate to severe thyroid eye Disease.
- Primary sinonasal undifferentiated carcinoma presenting with bilateral retrobulbar Optic neuropathy.
- Orbital metallic mesh causing chronic intraocular foreign body and restrictive strabismus.
- Profiles of obesity, weight gain, and quality of life in idiopathic intracranial hypertension (pseudotumor cerebri).
- Development and face and content validity of an eye surgical skills assessment test for ophthalmology residents.
- Ophthalmology resident surgical competency: a national survey.
- Adjustable medial rectus muscle resection in adult Exotropia.
- Occult thyroid eye Disease in patients with unexplained ocular misalignment identified by standardized orbital echography.
- Contemporaneous retinal and Optic nerve infarcts, choroidal non-perfusion, and Hollenhorst plaque: are these all embolic events?
- Automated combined kinetic and static perimetry: an alternative to standard perimetry in patients with neuro-ophthalmic disease and Glaucoma.
- Relation of visual function to Retinal nerve fiber layer thickness in multiple sclerosis.
- Intermittent headaches as the presenting sign of subacute angle-closure Glaucoma.
- Factors influencing reaction time during automated kinetic perimetry on the Tübingen computer campimeter.
- Rapid cognitive decline following lumbar puncture in a patient with a dural arteriovenous fistula.
- Computerized kinetic perimetry detects tubular Visual fields in patients with functional Visual loss.
- Transient Vision Loss.
- Laser pointer Visual field screening.
- Cavernous sinus fistulas: carotid cavernous fistulas and dural arteriovenous malformations.
- The role of unilateral temporal artery biopsy.
- Bilateral Optic nerve infiltration in central nervous system leukemia.
- Ethnic issues in neuroophthalmology.
- Hemolytic anemia presenting as idiopathic intracranial hypertension.
- Prolonged premonitory optic disc signs in Anterior ischemic optic neuropathy.
- Caught by a masquerade: sclerosing orbital inflammation.
- Double Vision.
- Sixth nerve palsies in children.
- Magnetic resonance imaging of acquired Brown syndrome in a patient with psoriasis.
- Methanol-induced Optic nerve cupping.
- Idiopathic intracranial hypertension: relation of age and obesity in children.
- Retinal Disease in neuro-ophthalmology: paraneoplastic retinopathy and the big blind spot syndrome.
- Eye movement Disorders.
- Collaterals in branch Retinal artery occlusion.
- Intracranial hypertension associated with acquired hyperopia and choroidal folds.
- Evidence for preganglionic pupillary involvement in superficial siderosis.
- Optic nerve and orbital tumors.
- Eleven commandments for teaching ophthalmic surgery.
- Orbital drainage from cerebral arteriovenous malformations.
- Use of a portable head mounted perimetry system to assess bedside Visual fields.
- Portable pupillography of the swinging flashlight test to detect afferent pupillary Defects.
- Acute idiopathic blind spot enlargement syndrome: a review of 27 new cases.
- Visual loss in children with neurofibromatosis type 1 and Optic pathway gliomas: relation to tumor location by magnetic resonance imaging.
- Weight gain and recurrence in idiopathic intracranial hypertension: a case-control study.
- Adult Hypertropia: a guide to diagnostic evaluation based on review of 300 patients.
- Acute ocular motor mononeuropathies: prospective study of the roles of neuroimaging and clinical assessment.
- Unusual presentations of cavernous carotid aneurysms: further evidence for topographic organization of the oculomotor nerve.
- Spinocerebellar ataxia type 7 (SCA7) shows a cone-rod dystrophy phenotype.
- Gender characteristics among academic ophthalmology leadership, faculty, and residents: results from a cross-sectional survey.
- Age-dependent effects of RPE65 gene therapy for Leber''s congenital amaurosis: a phase 1 dose-escalation trial.
- Comparison of advanced Visual field defects measured with the Tübingen Mobile Campimeter and the Octopus 101 perimeter.
- Computerized binocular pupillography of the swinging flashlight test detects afferent pupillary Defects.
- Acute promyelocytic leukemic involvement of the Optic nerves following mitoxantrone treatment for multiple sclerosis.
- Primary diffuse leptomeningeal gliomatosis mimicking a chronic inflammatory meningitis.
- Pupillary sparing and aberrant regeneration in chronic third nerve palsy secondary to a posterior communicating artery aneurysm.
- Current neuro-ophthalmic therapies.
- Posterior Ischemic optic neuropathy after uncomplicated cataract extraction.
- Oculomotor synkinesis following a midbrain stroke.
- Optic neuritis: historical aspects.
- Microsurgical lab testing is a reliable method for assessing ophthalmology residents'' surgical skills.
- Pseudotumor cerebri and its medical treatment.
- Simultaneous corneal laceration repair, cataract removal, and posterior chamber intraocular lens implantation.
- Secondary hemorrhage in traumatic hyphema.
- Orbital myositis associated with herpes zoster.
- Persistent positive visual phenomena in Migraine.
- Tuberculous meningitis with blindness and perichiasmal involvement on MRI.
- The crossed paralyses. The original brain-stem syndromes of Millard-Gubler, Foville, Weber, and Raymond-Cestan.
- Cyclodeviation in skew deviation.
- Isolated fascicular abducens nerve palsy and Lyme Disease.
- Remitting sixth nerve palsy in skull base tumors.
- Leber's hereditary Optic neuropathy.
- Neuro-ophthalmologic findings in chordoma and chondrosarcoma of the skull base.
- Prominent proptosis in childhood thyroid eye Disease.
Schools
Suny Downstate Medical Center
Beth Israel Hospital
Mass Eye and Ear Infirm Harvard
Procedures Preformed
- Extraocular Muscle Surgery
Conditions Treated
- Anterior Ischemic Optic Neuropathy
- Degenerative Disorders of Globe
- Diplopia
- Esotropia
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Doctors Specialties
- Ophthalmology
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- America's Top Doctors
- Chicago Magazine: Top Doctors
- Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification
- Philadelphia Magazine
- Super Doctor
- Fellow (FAAO)
Education
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Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary -
Mount Sinai Beth Israel -
State University of New York Downstate Medical Center College of Medicine
Hospital
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Northwestern Memorial Hospital -
Jesse Brown Veterans Affairs Medical Center -
Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
Drug Facts
| NPI NUMBER | 1982664272 | |
| NPPES Provider LastName | VOLPE | |
| NPPES Provider FirstName | NICHOLAS | |
| NPPES Provider ZIPCode | 606115975 | |
| NPPES Provider State | IL | |
| Specialty Description | Ophthalmology | |
| Total Claim Count | 25.0 | |
| Distinct Opioid Count | 0.0 | |
| Opioid Claim Count | 0.0 | |
| Percent Opioid Claims | 0.0 |
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Medicare Facts
| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1982664272 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | VOLPE |
| First Name Of The Provider | NICHOLAS |
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