Faruk Orge MD

Faruk H. Orge MD, FAAO, FAAP, is the William R. and Margaret E. Althans Chair and Professor in Pediatric Ophthalmology; Professor of Ophthalmology and Pediatrics at Case Western Reserve University; and the Director of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Adult Strabismus at University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children’s. After completing a two-year research fellowship, internship, residency, and clinical fellowship at Indiana University, Dr. Örge returned to his native country, Turkey, to join the faculty at Yeditepe University. He has been at UH Rainbow since 2007.

Dr. Orge is widely recognized for his clinical expertise and is listed among the Best Doctors of America (since 2009), Top Doctors (since 2011), and Who’s Who (2014). Dr. Örge has served on and led many committees of the American Association of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus (AAPOS) and joined in 2018 as a Director-at-Large. He has served as an examiner for the American Board of Ophthalmology and serves as the AAPOS liaison to the board.

He is currently the Fellowship Program Director and the Residency Associate Director at UH Eye Institute. His innovations in teaching include work with Orbis-Cybersight, AAPOS, and the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO), with interests in telemedicine, live webinars, online journal clubs, and unique learning tools such as an interactive strabismus and retinoscopy simulators. He is the Editor-in-Chief for the AAO’s newly formed Knights Templar Eye Foundation Pediatric Ophthalmology Virtual Education Center. As the largest online educational source in the world for pediatric ophthalmology and strabismus, it has been visited more than one million times by more than 200 countries since its inception in 2015.