Professor Moshe Snir
One of Israel's leading specialists, head of pediatric ophthalmology at Schneider Children's Medical Center.
Professor Moshe Snir is a highly experienced ophthalmologist, a specialist in treating strabismus in children and adults, with extensive clinical experience and unique knowledge in the surgical and conservative treatment of adult and pediatric eye diseases.
Dr. Snir is one of the few ophthalmologists in Israel whose professional competence includes correcting eye pathology in very young children from birth, including premature babies.
Dr. Moshe Snir studied medicine at the Faculty of Medicine of Tel Aviv University. He then specialized in medical and surgical ophthalmology and completed his residency in the ophthalmology department of Beilinson Hospital, Rabin Medical Center, Israel. He received additional specialization in advanced eye surgery technologies and in conservative and preventive ophthalmology in the USA and Canada, where for several years he trained in eye departments of clinics in Indiana and Baltimore under leading ophthalmologists. Over the following 10 years he worked with progressive vision correction methods for adults and children in New York, mastered unique rehabilitation programs for combating eye muscle weakness in amblyopia in Los Angeles, and studied advanced surgical techniques for retinal diseases in Spain.
Dr. Snir considers his main professional achievement to be the founding of the pediatric ophthalmology department at Schneider Medical Center in Israel, which he has headed since its establishment in 1995. Throughout this time he has conducted active scientific and practical work, studying the causes of strabismus in children and seeking effective ways to correct visual disorders. Professor Snir has written dozens of scientific papers on children's eye problems and ways to overcome them. With unshakable authority in his field, he is an honorary member of several Israeli, European and American ophthalmological organizations, heads the Department of Pediatric Ophthalmology at the Faculty of Medicine of Tel Aviv University, where he lectures on the prevention and treatment of amblyopia, and publishes in international journals as the author of unique articles on pediatric ophthalmology.
Professor Snir is competent in treating a wide range of eye pathology in adults and children, including:
- treatment of all forms of strabismus in children and adults: monocular, alternating, concomitant, paralytic, regardless of cause;
- treatment of amblyopia at any stage;
- treatment of developmental anomalies of the eye muscles;
- correction of visual disorders in children and adults;
- treatment of congenital pathology of the tear ducts and other eye diseases.
Professor Snir's department uses advanced technologies (laser, Amblyz and others) for eye treatment and vision restoration. Paying much attention to preventive ophthalmology, Dr. Snir also works with parents of children with eye diseases, teaching preventive and rehabilitation measures, including non-medical ones, to restore and preserve children's vision.