Christiansen Named Chair and Professor of Ophthalmology

Stephen P. Christiansen, MD, has been appointed chair of the Department of Ophthalmology and professor of ophthalmology and pediatrics at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM). In addition, Christiansen has been appointed chief of the Department of Ophthalmology at Boston Medical Center (BMC).

Christiansen received his medical degree from the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, and completed his residency in ophthalmology at the University of Kentucky in Lexington. He also did a fellowship at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute at the University of Miami.

Christiansen’s clinical expertise is in congenital cataracts, infantile glaucoma, pediatric ocular tumors, and strabismus, a condition in which a person’s eyes are not aligned. His research interests include drug treatment of strabismus and the treatment of retinopathy of prematurity, a disease of the eyes  that affects premature babies.

Prior to his appointments, Christiansen was the professor of ophthalmology and pediatrics at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. Christiansen is a member of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology and a fellow in the American Academy of Ophthalmology and the American Association of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus.