RudraniBanikMD

Summary

• Rudrani Banik, MD, is a Board-certified Ophthalmologist specializing in Neuro-Ophthalmology and Comprehensive Ophthalmology. She manages the entire spectrum of diseases affecting vision which arise from the nervous system including: optic neuritis, optic neuropathy (abnormality of optic nerve), optic disc edema (swelling of the optic nerve), ocular myasthenia gravis, brain tumors or stroke affecting vision, idiopathic intracranial hypertension (pseudo tumor cerebri), unexplained visual loss, headaches (migraines), double vision, blepharospasm, and hemifacial spasm. She is fully trained in the use of Botox for facial spasms as well as cosmetic indications. She also performs cataract surgery, pterygium surgery, and adult strabismus.
  
  Dr. Banik is a graduate of the Brown University’s School of Medicine in Providence, RI and graduated with a B.A with Honors and M.D. She completed her residency training in Ophthalmology at the University of California, Irvine. She went on to pursue fellowship training in Neuro-Ophthalmology at the prestigious Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins University.
  
  She was full-time faculty at Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx for 3 years. She served as Residency Program Director for Ophthalmology at Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center for 2 years and then joined the Faculty Practice at New York Eye and Ear Infirmary (NYEEI) where she worked for 5 years. She is currently in private practice and is Clinical Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine.
  
  Dr. Banik is actively involved in supervising and teaching residents at NYEEI. She is currently principal investigator for several clinical trials in neuro-ophthalmology in idiopathic intracranial hypertension, non-arteritic ischemic optic neuropathy, pediatric optic neuritis, and Leber hereditary optic neuropathy. She has authored numerous articles and has presented at national and international meetings.

Dr Rudrani Banik was interviewed on New Tang Dynasty TV
Dr Banik discusses a Functional Medicine integrative approach to Eye Health, as well as Migraine management.

Rudrani Banik, MD featured by Dr Max Gomez on CBS
(CBSNewYork) - There's potentially good news for the 12,000 people a year who suffer a stroke - not in the brain, but in the eye. Dr. Max Gomez reports on a new

Rudrani Banik, MD featured on CBS Evening News
Doctors seek new hope for patients with eye stroke with experimental new drug.

Rudrani Banik, MD featured on Good Morning America: Virtual Reality in Children
Dr Rudrani Banik discusses the possible impact of virtual reality headsets in children.

Rudrani Banik, MD featured on FOX 5 News: Is virtual reality safe for children?
Dr Rudrani Banik discusses the possible impact of entertainment virtual reality headsets for children.