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Dr. Syndee Givre


Syndee J. Givre, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology and Neurology


Subspecialty
Neuro-ophthalmology
Ophthalmic Oncology




Medical School:
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, 1994

Internship:
Internal Medicine
Greenwich Hospital of Yale University, Greenwich, CT, 1995

Residency:
Ophthalmology
Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY, 1998

Fellowship:
Neuro-ophthalmology
University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA, 2000

Certification:
American Board of Ophthalmology, 2000

Special Interests
Dr. Givre evaluates patients with the following problems:
  • Optic nerve disorders/optic neuropathies
    • Ischemic optic neuropathy
    • Tumors of the optic nerve (gliomas and meningiomas)
    • Tumors compressing the optic nerve and visual pathways (pituitary adenomas)
    • Papilledema, idiopathic intracranial hypertension, pseudotumor cerebri
    • Optic neuritis, demyelination of the optic nerve related to multiple sclerosis
    • Optic nerve inflammation (sarcoidosis, systemic lupus erythematosus)
    • Toxic optic neuropathy
    • Metabolic optic neuropathy
    • Hereditary optic neuropathy (Leber's Hereditary Optic Neuropathy, dominant optic atrophy)
    • Giant cell or temporal arteritis
  • Unexplained vision loss
  • Transient vision loss (amaurosis fugax, transient ischemic attacks)
  • Vision loss due to brain lesions affecting the visual pathways (strokes, tumors, infections, inflammation)
  • Double vision
  • Abnormal eye movements (nystagmus)
  • Abnormal pupils (unequal pupils, Horner's Syndrome, Adie's Pupil), infrared pupillometry
  • Graves' Disease/thyroid-related eye disease
  • Ocular myasthenia gravis
Practice Philosophy
Neuro-ophthalmology is a subspecialty of ophthalmology and neurology that deals with the nerves and muscles of the eye and eye socket and the portions of the brain that control vision and eye movements. Neuro-ophthalmologists apply their unique abilities in performing complete ophthalmologic assessment in the context of understanding systemic medical and neurologic disorders. The neuro-ophthalmologist, being the one specialist familiar with mechanisms of vision, eye movement, neurologic disorders, and the appropriate use and limitations of neuro-diagnostic testing (MRI, spinal fluid analysis, electrophysiologic tests such as evoked potentials and electroretinograms), is ideally suited to assist primary care doctors, general ophthalmologists and neurologists in the evaluation of the patients with unknown causes of vision and motility disturbances.