Dr. Karen Revere
Location
Areas of Expertise
About Me
Karen E. Revere, MD, is an attending oculoplastic and reconstructive surgeon in the Division of Ophthalmology at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. She is also a member of the Department of Ophthalmology at the Scheie Eye Institute as assistant professor at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. She sees both children and adults.
Dr. Revere received her MD from the Perelman School of Medicine, where she was recognized as the most outstanding medical student entering ophthalmology. After earning “Intern of the Year” in Miami, FL, and completing a residency in Ophthalmology at Penn, she completed a two-year fellowship at CHOP, which included training at the Scheie Eye Institute, the Center for Human Appearance and the Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
Dr. Revere’s practice includes functional and cosmetic oculoplastic surgery in children and adults. Her clinical interests include ptosis; eyelid and ocular surface tumors; post-Mohs reconstructive surgery; management of microphthalmia and the anophthalmic socket; orbital tumors, fractures and inflammatory conditions; lacrimal (tearing) disorders; and complex oculoplastic and orbital diseases, including thyroid eye disease and congenital fibrosis syndromes. She sees patients at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s Main Campus; the CHOP Care Network Specialty Care Center, Princeton at Plainsboro; the CHOP Care Network Specialty Care & Surgery Center, Voorhees; and the Scheie Eye Institute in Philadelphia.
Training

ASOPRS Fellow in Oculoplastic and Orbital Surgery
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Fellowship
Ophthalmology
Scheie Eye Institute
Residency
MD
UPenn
Medical School
Awards & Honors
ORBIS Associate Ophthalmologist Fellowship
2014Davao, Philippines
Intern of the Year
2012Mt. Sinai Medical Center, Miami Beach, FL
National Medical Fellowship for Minority Medical Students
2011Mbarara, Uganda
Byron S. Hurwitz, MD, M'66 Memorial Prize for most outstanding medical student entering a residency in ophthalmology
2011Fellowship at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics for Medical Students
2010Germany and Poland
Year-Long Howard Hughes Medical Institute Fellowship
2009Department of Ophthalmology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Agnew Surgical Society Scholarship
2007Department of Traumatology and Critical Care, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
National Institutes of Health Funded Annual Summer Fellowships, Minority Access to Research Careers/Physician Scientist Training Program
2004Temple University
Publications & Press
Simultaneous versus sequential ptosis and strabismus surgery in children
Ophthalmic Plast Reconstr Surg. 2018;34(3):280-283.•2018A Randomized Controlled Trial of Art Observation Training to Improve Medical Student Ophthalmology Skills
Ophthalmology, 2017.•2017Childhood optic nerve glioma: vision loss due to biopsy
Ophthal Plast Reconstr Surg. 2017 May/Jun;33(3S Suppl 1):S107-S109.•2017Congenital Craniofacial Deformities: Ophthalmic Considerations
In: Katowitz JA, Katowitz WR, editors. Pediatric Oculoplastic Surgery. 2nd ed. Springer; 2017.•2017Developmental Eyelid Abnormalities
In: Katowitz JA, Katowitz WR, editors. Pediatric Oculoplastic Surgery. 2nd ed.. Springer; 2017.•2017Management of the Microphthalmic Orbit
In: Katowitz JA, Katowitz WR, editors. Pediatric Oculoplastic Surgery. 2nd ed. Springer; 2017.•2017Use of the Masterka for complex nasolacrimal duct obstruction in children
J AAPOS. 2017;21(5):380-383.•2017Eyelid Developmental Disorders
Diseases and Disorders of the Orbit and Adnexa, 1" Edition. Fay A & Dolman P (eds.). Elsevier, 2016.•2016Acute onset anterior uveitis after darbepoetin alfa infusion
Journal of Ophthalmic Inflamm Infect. 5(1):31, 2015.•2015Update on management of herpes keratitis in children
Curr Opin Ophthalmol. 24:343-47, 2013.•2013In vivo detection of experimental optic neuritis by pupillometry
Exp Eye Res. 100:1-6, 2012.•2012Recent breakthroughs in gene therapy for inherited retinal degeneration
Discovery Medicine. 42(8):125-29, 2009.•2009
Certifications & Licensure
- Licensed In
- PA
- License Numbers
- MD454055


