Location
Areas of Expertise
Glaucoma Drainage Implants
Comprehensive Eye Exams
Meet Dr. Robert Honkanen
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About Me
Dr. Robert A Honkanen is a glaucoma and comprehensive ophthalmologist with over 20 years of experience. He received his ophthalmology training at Yale University and completed a glaucoma fellowship at the University of Iowa. He has been a faculty member at Stony Brook ophthalmology since 1999 and serves as Chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology. Dr. Honkanen treats patients with glaucoma and dry eye disease and conducts cutting-edge research in these areas. He has been recognized with numerous resident teaching awards and has been listed in Castle Connolly's Top Doctors.
Dr. Honkanen sees patients at outpatient clinics in Commack, East Setauket, and Southampton.
Training
Glaucoma
1999University of Iowa
Fellowship
Ophthalmology
1998Yale New Haven Hospital
ResidencyMedicine Internship
1995Winthrop-University Hospital
Residency
Awards & Honors
Castle Connelly's Top Doctors
Publications & Press
Review and meta-analysis of ab-interno trabeculectomy outcomes.
The British journal of ophthalmology•2016Heterozygous triplication of upstream regulatory sequences leads to dysregulation of matrix metalloproteinase 19 in patients with cavitary optic disc anomaly.
Human mutation•2015The use of endoscopic cyclophotocoagulation for moderate to advanced glaucoma.
Acta ophthalmologica•2015Trabeculectomy for traumatic hyphema in sickle cell trait.
Seminars in ophthalmology•2015Effects of lowering cerebrospinal fluid pressure on the shape of the peripapillary retina in intracranial hypertension.
Investigative ophthalmology & visual science•2014Optical coherence tomography shape analysis of the peripapillary retinal pigment epithelium layer in presumed optic nerve sheath meningiomas.
Journal of neuro-ophthalmology : the official journal of the North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society•2014Ischemic central retinal vein occlusion and neovascular glaucoma as a result of optic nerve head drusen.
Retinal cases & brief reports•2011Asymptomatic peripapillary subretinal hemorrhage: a study of 10 cases.
Journal of neuro-ophthalmology : the official journal of the North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society•2008Risk factors for incident open-angle glaucoma: the Barbados Eye Studies.
Ophthalmology•2008Awareness of incident open-angle glaucoma in a population study: the Barbados Eye Studies.
Ophthalmology•2007Familial cavitary optic disk anomalies: clinical features of a large family with examples of progressive optic nerve head cupping.
American journal of ophthalmology•2007Familial cavitary optic disk anomalies: identification of a novel genetic locus.
American journal of ophthalmology•2007Incident open-angle glaucoma and intraocular pressure.
Ophthalmology•2007Nine-year incidence of open-angle glaucoma in the Barbados Eye Studies.
Ophthalmology•2007Progressive iris changes in a case of Axenfeld-Rieger syndrome.
Archives of ophthalmology•2006A family with Axenfeld-Rieger syndrome and Peters Anomaly caused by a point mutation (Phe112Ser) in the FOXC1 gene.
American journal of ophthalmology•2003Vitreous amino acid concentrations in patients with glaucoma undergoing vitrectomy.
Archives of ophthalmology•2003Long-term results of eyes with penetrating keratoplasty and glaucoma drainage tube implant.
Ophthalmology•2001Correlation of automated visual field parameters and peripapillary nerve fiber layer thickness as measured by scanning laser polarimetry.
Journal of glaucoma•2000Barbiturates inhibit hexose transport in cultured mammalian cells and human erythrocytes and interact directly with purified GLUT-1.
Biochemistry•1995Regulation of the functional expression of hexose transporter GLUT-1 by glucose in murine fibroblasts: role of lysosomal degradation.
Biochemistry•1992Glucose deprivation induces the selective accumulation of hexose transporter protein GLUT-1 in the plasma membrane of normal rat kidney cells.
Molecular endocrinology (Baltimore, Md.)•1991
Certifications & Licensure
- Licensed In
- NY
- License Numbers
- 216002
