Clinical Approach to Ocular Motility: Characteristics and Orthoptic Management of Strabismus - Second Edition

Ida Lucy Iacobucci (“Miss Ida” to her patients and colleagues) is an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Michigan Kellogg Eye Center.  She has trained hundreds of ophthalmology residents and dozens of orthoptic students in the clinic that bears her name – the Ida Lucy Iacobucci Orthoptic Clinic.

Miss Ida earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan and her orthoptist certification from the University of California Medical Center in San Francisco in 1957.  Throughout her fifty-eight years as an orthoptist at the Kellogg Eye Center, University of Michigan, she has developed ground-breaking treatments for various types of strabismus and amblyopia. Her academic articles are now required reading for orthoptic students in training programs across the United States.

Her first textbook, Clinical Approach to Ocular Motility, was published in 1980 by the University of Michigan Medical School.  In 1982, the University of Michigan Orthoptic Program received the Richard G. Scobee award for excellence in training.  In 1985, Miss Ida received the Lancaster Award - the highest honor given by the American Association of Certified Orthoptists. Recently, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award for fifty-five years of excellence by the AACO.

Miss Ida continues to commute two days a week from her home in Southeastern Michigan to the Kellogg Eye Center in Ann Arbor where she examines children and adults with strabismus and trains tomorrow's practitioners.  “Orthoptics,” she explains, “has been my life’s work and life-long passion.”

Interview with the Author: Respected Orthoptist Updates Textbook

Ida Iacobucci Updates a Classic Text