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The CVCC LASIK Experience
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Biography
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Rick W. Fraunfelder, M.D.
- Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology - 2001
- OHSU Medical School - 1994
- Residency - Univ of Washington 1997-2000
- Cornea/Refractive Surgery/Ocular Oncology Fellowship - Casey Eye Inst 2000-01
- Additional Fellowships - 2001 Food an Drug Administration, World Health Organization, Wills Eye Hospital
- Director - Nat'l Registry of Drug-Induced Ocular Side Effects
- Co-Author - Drug-Induced Ocular Side Effects
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For Dr. Rick Fraunfelder, practicing ophthalmology at Casey Eye Institute is the latest stage in an intensive education that took place across the United States, Australia, and Sweden. After this global experience, Dr. Fraunfelder is pleased to be back in Portland. He says, “At Casey Eye Institute I have the opportunity to work with the best.”
Dr. Fraunfelder decided to become an eye surgeon because “I love helping people with eye disease as eyesight is so precious.” His commitment to helping others was demonstrated during his medical training. After earning a medical degree from Oregon Health Sciences University, Dr. Fraunfelder worked as a medical resident in the emergency room at Providence Medical Center in Portland. He then decided to spend a year in rural Australia as an emergency room physician caring for the indigent aboriginal population. Recalling his time at the Alice Springs Hospital in the Australian outback, Dr. Fraunfelder says, “I wanted to participate in the care of those in underserved areas.” Returning to the US, he completed a three year ophthalmology residency at the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle.
Upon completion of his residency, Dr. Fraunfelder returned to Casey Eye Institute for a fellowship in cornea, external disease, refractive surgery and ocular oncology. Following this broadly based fellowship, Dr. Fraunfelder then arranged a very specialized six month fellowship program, focusing mainly on his interest in the ocular side effects of medications and how they are monitored and tracked. During this period, he spent time with the World Health Organization in Sweden, drug companies in the United States and the Food and Drug Administration in Maryland. He then obtained further training in ocular oncology at the Wills Eye Hospital in Pennsylvania, where he specialized in tumors on the surface of the eye.
Dr. Fraunfelder’s choice of activities during his fellowships grew out of his long term interest in drug side effects and interactions. The proprietor of the National Registry of Drug Induced Ocular Side Effects – the only database designed to gather data on ocular drug side effects, Dr. Fraunfelder is also co-author of the book Drug-Induced Ocular Side Effects, with his father, a former Chair of Casey Eye Institute. Dr. Fraunfelder’s research interests are wide-ranging, and he has published over two dozen abstracts, journal articles and book chapters.
Despite the hectic nature of his practice, Dr. Fraunfelder maintains a light-hearted, easygoing outlook, which is appreciated by his colleagues and patients. A voracious reader, he also likes to build remote control model airplanes and play the piano. Time is at a premium for Dr. Fraunfelder because he and his wife, Wendee, have a young, growing family: Mikayla was born in 1998, Frederick Jacob (Jake), was born in 2000 and a third baby is expected in 2002.
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