Burton J. Kushner

Burt Kushner is an American pediatric ophthalmologist specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of strabismus. Kushner's contributions include demonstration of improved visual fields of patients following strabismus surgery, elucidation of torsional contribution to patients with diplopia, corticosteroid treatment of periocular capillary hemangioma, and novel hypotheses on the mechanism of "overacting" extraocular muscles.

Training
Kushner graduated from the Northwestern University School of Medicine in 1969, and subsequently completed his internship at Evanston Hospital, ophthalmology residency at  University of Wisconsin-Madison Hospital and fellowship in pediatric ophthalmology at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute.

Offices held and honors

 * Director of pediatric ophthalmology and adult strabismus service in the department of ophthalmology at University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical School, Madison, Wisconsin.
 * John W. and Helen Doolittle Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical School
 * Founding Editor-in-Chief, Journal of the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus
 * 1992 Heed Foundation Award
 * 1999 Senior Honor Award, American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus
 * 2005 Alfred W. Bressler Prize in Vision Science, awarded by The Jewish Guild for the Blind
 * Dr. Kushner presented the first Eugene R. Folk MD Endowed Lecture at the American Academy of Ophthalmology Annual Meeting on October 15, 2005.