Patients with glaucoma can trust the specialized services and skilled team at Valley’s Glaucoma Center of Excellence, located within our ophthalmology practice at 1200 East Ridgewood Avenue, Ridgewood.
The Center is led by Tanya Fooks, MD, a Valley ophthalmologist who has over 14 years of training and experience in diagnosing and treating patients with this serious condition.
The Center offers multidisciplinary care that combines treatment with highly personalized service, including a patient navigator who coordinates each patient’s care and answers all questions before, during, and after appointments. With a seamless coordination of care, scheduling and receiving care is simpler and easier for patients, while reducing the timeline for bringing sight-saving advances to patients.
What is Glaucoma?
Glaucoma is the name for various eye diseases that can lead to vision loss and even blindness, due to the damage that is caused to the optic nerve.
Glaucoma cases in New Jersey are close to epidemic proportions, totaling 4,500,000 diagnosed and an estimated 60 million people worldwide – making it the second-leading cause of blindness, according to the World Health Organization. Although glaucoma is more common in older adults, it can occur at any age. It's important that you visit your eye doctor regularly for an eye exam.
Glaucoma Conditions We Treat
- Glaucoma suspect
- POAG (primary open-angle glaucoma)
- Secondary glaucoma occurring as a complication of eye surgeries injuries, infections, or other ophthalmic conditions
- Low-tension glaucoma
- Anatomic narrow-angle glaucoma
- Closed-angle glaucoma
- Steroid-induced glaucoma
- Ocular hypertensive disorder
- PXE (Pseudo-exfoliative glaucoma)
- Pigment dispersion glaucoma
Glaucoma Procedures and Treatment Options
Our center is at the forefront of glaucoma treatments, and our ophthalmologists are some of the only who perform the following procedures. Depending on the treatment and specific condition, oftentimes these procedures can be performed in-office or on an outpatient basis at The Luckow Pavilion in northern New Jersey. We specialize in both traditional and minimally invasive glaucoma procedures.
- Kahook dual-blade goniotomy
- Ahmed glaucoma valve with or without scleral patch graft
- I stents
- CPC diode laser
- Durysta drug eluting system*
- Glaucoma shunt implantation and revision
- Minimally invasive glaucoma surgeries
- Omni gonio canaloplasty
- Trabeculectomy
- Trabeculectomy revision
- Tube revisions
- UBM imaging*
*in-office procedure
Why Choose Valley for Glaucoma Care?
- Superior patient service: From the moment you book an appointment at our center, you will experience service like no other. Each patient will meet with a patient navigator, and they will be given an itinerary and informational folder to help guide them through their glaucoma care journey.
- A more personal approach: At Valley’s Glaucoma Center of Excellence, we take a personal approach to how we treat our patients. Our patients are treated as family, and our team will work together with you to create an individual glaucoma care plan that meets your needs.
- Skilled team of professionals: Our team consists of ophthalmologists Tanya Fooks, MD, and David M. Benderson, MD, optometrist Ivan Tseng, OD, and patient navigator Dana Silver, all of whom bring many years of experience treating glaucoma and other eye conditions.
