Larry P. Frohman, MD

Larry Frohman, MD, is in the academic full-time practice of Neuro-ophthalmology and Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and Neurology and Neurosciences at Rutgers-New Jersey Medical School and serves as Vice Chair of the Department of Ophthalmology.

He is currently Executive Vice President of the Board of the North American Neuro-ophthalmology Society (NANOS), serving on its Board for more than 20 years. He has served the American Academy of Ophthalmology in numerous roles, spanning several divisions. He served two terms as Councilor for NANOS and was Deputy Section Chief of Council. He was the first chair of the Neuro-ophthalmology/Orbit Section of the Knowledge Base Project, a role in which he taught the first MOC Exam Review Course. He had been a long-standing member of the Self-Assessment Committee, including Chair of its Multimedia Subcommittee, in which he was one of two AAO members responsible for the concept of the popular and award-winning PROVISION-CD patient simulation series. He has served on the Editorial Board of EyeNet.

He has published approximately 90 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, including the American Academy of Ophthalmology/North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Interactive Clinical Case Slide Atlas of Neuro-ophthalmology (CD-ROM). As part of his interest in best practices in remote based learning, he was one of the initial co-investigator of the Neuro-ophthalmology Virtual Educational Library (NOVEL) project funded by a National Library of Medicine grant.

Clinical Interests:

Neuro-Ophthalmology only, including unexplained visual loss, Double Vision, Neuro-ophthalmic signs of systemic disease, Neuro-ophthalmic sarcodiosis, Pseudotumor cerebri, Optic neuritis