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Dr. Arnold joined
Ophthalmic Associates in 1989. He initially moved
to Alaska from Bellingham, Washington in 1976 to
fish commercially. He graduated from
the University of Alaska Fairbanks with a BS in
Chemistry, magna cum laude in 1980; received his
M.D. at Yale University School of Medicine in 1984,
and did his Residency in Ophthalmology at the Mayo
Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota in 1988. Following his
ophthalmology residency, he was a Pediatric
Ophthalmology Fellow at Indiana University in
Indianapolis in 1989. He became certified by the
American Board of Ophthalmology and a Fellow of the
American Academy of Ophthalmology in 1990 and is a
Fellow of the American Association for Pediatric
Ophthalmology and Strabismus. Dr. Arnold has
served as Chief of Ophthalmology at Providence
Hospital, and coordinates the Alaska Eye
Meeting. Dr. Arnold limits
his practice to children from premature infants
through early teens and to adults with strabismus.
He has an ongoing research interest in children's
vision screening, ophthalmic surgical instruments,
and anesthesia safety. Dr. Arnold and Ophthalmic
Associates are sponsoring the ABCD
project,
a study to photoscreen all rural Alaskan
pre-schoolers. He is an investigator in the
National Institutes of Health sponsored ATS study.
Dr. Arnold, his
wife Koni, and their two children Andrew and Elle
enjoy Bible study, hunting, custom knifemaking,
biathlon, and safe pedestrian trail
utilization. |
Robert
W. Arnold, M.D.