Irene H. Ludwig, MD
Irene H. Ludwig, M.D., is a native of New York who recently moved to Franklin, Tennessee from New Orleans, where she served 8 years on the faculty of the LSU Eye Center. Dr. Ludwig concentrates on pediatric eye muscle problems. She graduated from Queens College of the City University of New York in 1975 and Cornell University Medical College in 1979. She completed her internship in general surgery at the University of Virginia, residency in Ophthalmology at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, and a fellowship in pediatric ophthalmology and strabismus at the Children’s Hospital National Medical Center, Washington DC, under the direction of Marshall M. Parks, M.D. She also performed a two-year research fellowship at the National Eye Institute.
After five years as staff attending ophthalmologist at the Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital in Cooperstown, New York, Dr. Ludwig was recruited to the faculty of the LSU Eye Center, where she served as associate professor of ophthalmology, involved in teaching of medical students and residents, patient care, and research.
Dr. Ludwig is a diplomat of the American Board of Ophthalmology. She is a member of The American Academy of Ophthalmology, The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus, and the Costenbader Society. In 1999 she was elected into the prestigious American Ophthalmological Society upon acceptance of her thesis entitled Scar Remodeling After Strabismus Surgery.
Dr. Ludwig continues her research and maintains a faculty appointment at LSU. Current projects include new methods of repair of muscle injury following facial and orbital trauma, repair of scar stretching which can cause recurrent strabismus after prior eye muscle surgery, the relationship of sinus disease to eye muscle problems, new eye muscle surgical techniques and suture development.
