Monte Anthony Del Monte MD

Monte A Del Monte, MD, completed a complete residency in Pediatrics at the Harvard Boston Children’s Hospital Medical Center and a residency in Ophthalmology at the Johns Hopkins Wilmer Eye Institute where he served as chief resident and assistant chief of service in 1982. He also completed postdoctoral fellowship training in ocular biochemistry and genetics at the Wilmer Institute and in pediatric ophthalmology and strabismus at the National Children’s Hospital Medical Center in Washington D.C.

He is a past member of the Board of Directors of the American Association of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus, past president of the American Orthoptic Council, and has served as committee chair of numerous committees on the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus, the American Academy of Ophthalmology, The American Orthoptic Council, and the American Board of Ophthalmology. He has lectured and performed Medical Mission teaching and clinical care widely throughout the world with ORBIS and other organizations and has presented 45 invited, guest, keynote, and named lectures. He has been director of Pediatric Ophthalmology Fellowship training at the University of Michigan for the past 28 years training clinical and research fellows from the United States and many countries throughout the world.

He is an international expert on pediatric cataracts as well as pediatric and adult strabismus and strabismus surgery and has been involved in developing new treatment protocols and surgical techniques; especially for the treatment of cranial nerve palsies, complex strabismus, lost or damaged extraocular muscles, and Thyroid Eye Disease. He is currently Director of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Adult Strabismus, Skillman Professor of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Professor of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases, all at the University of Michigan, and Director of Ophthalmology at the Mott Children’s Hospital.