Gale Orlansky

OD, MEd

Dr. Gale Orlansky received her optometric degree from the SUNY-State College of Optometry in New York and a Masters in Education Degree in Reading from Arcadia University in 2006. She is a certified reading specialist. She is a clinical optometrist with more than thirty-five years of experience working with the pediatric population at The Eye Institute and teaches core courses and laboratories in the Pediatric and Binocular Vision curriculum at Salus University. Dr. Orlansky has been the administrator and lead Optometrist for the Pre-Kindergarten Head Start Vision Screening Program in the Philadelphia School District since 1983. She has been involved as an optometric examiner in several research projects including the Vision in Preschoolers (VIP) Pilot Study, as well as the VIP-HIP (Hyperopia in Preschoolers) Study. She served as the principal investigator for the Reliability of the Developmental Eye Movement Test Study and the UREAD (Uncorrected Refractive Errors and Academic Development) Study. Dr. Orlansky has lectured nationally and internationally on binocular vision and learning-related vision problems.