Flaum Eye Institute
Neuro-Ophthalmology
Deborah Isa Friedman, M.D., M.P.H.
Professor
Departments of Ophthalmology and Neurology
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Dr. Friedman is a specialist in the combined areas ophthalmology and neurology, affording her patients the benefit of investigating their eye problems from two unique areas of expertise. Her clinical expertise within neuro-ophthalmology includes optic neuritis and other optic neuropathies, myasthenia gravis, diplopia, visual field defects, and headache disorders.
Dr. Friedman’s research interests include idiopathic intracranial hypertension (pseudotumor cerebri) and migraine therapy. She conducts clinical trials for acute and preventative migraine treatments and collaborated with Dr. Huxlin in visual field rehabilitation therapy.
Dr. Friedman earned a bachelor’s degree in engineering science at the Georgia Institute of Technology and a medical degree from Tulane University School of Medicine. After completing an internship in medicine at Good Samaritan Hospital in Cincinnati and a residency in neurology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, she did fellowships in neuro-ophthalmology at Baylor and the University of Southern California/Doheny Eye Institute, Los Angeles. She is board certified in Neurology and Headache Medicine. Her previous appointment was as Associate Professor of Neurology and Ophthalmology at the State University of New York–Upstate Medical University in Syracuse.
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She is President of the North American Neuro-Ophthalmic Society and serves on the Board of Directors of the American Headache Society.
Dr. Friedman sees patients at our Strong Memorial Hospital offices.
Selected Publications
1. Friedman DI, Jacobson DM. "Diagnostic criteria
for idiopathic intracranial hypertension." Neurology 2002;59:1492-5.
(also in Polish edition of Neurology)
2. Friedman DI, Gordon LK, Egan RA, Jacobson DM, Pomeranz
H, Harrison AR, Goldhammer Y. "Doxycycline and intracranial hypertension."
Neurology 2004;62:2297-2299.
3. Friedman DI. "The eye and headache." Ophthalmology
Clin N Am 2004;17:357-370.
4. Friedman DI. "A practical approach to intracranial hypertension."
Headache Currents 2005;2:1-10.
5. Friedman DI. "Medication-induced intracranial
hypertension in dermatology." Am J Clin Dermatol 2005;6:29-37.
6. Friedman DI. "Cerebral venous pressure, gastric
bypass surgery and dural venous sinus stenting in idiopathic
intracranial
hypertension." J Neuro-Ophthalmol 2006;26:61-64.
7. Grosberg B, Solomon S, Friedman DI, Lipton
R. "Retinal migraine reappraised." Cephalalgia 2006;26:1275-1286.
8. Friedman DI. "Idiopathic intracranial hypertension."
Curr Pain Headache Rep 2007:11(1) 62-68.
9. Potts E, Friedman DI. "Headache associated
with Miller Fisher syndrome." Headache
2007:47(9);1347-8.
10. Friedman, DI. "Pseudotumor cerebri presenting
as headache." Exp Rev Neurotherapeutics, 2008;8(3):397-407
11. Friedman, DI. "Headache and the eye." Curr
Pain Headache Rep (in press)
12. Friedman DI. "Environmental triggers of
migraine." Headache Currents (in press)