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title: Provider Details Dr. Babak Kamkar
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 OD, FAAO, QME

# Dr. Babak Kamkar

## About Dr. Kamkar 

**Dr. Babak Kamkar, OD, FAAO, QME**

**Primary Specialty / Areas of Focus:**Optometry

- **Education & Training:**
- **Years of Clinical Experience:**40+ (since 1986)
- **Board Certifications / Professional Affiliations:** Neuro-Optometric Rehabilitation Association (NORA), American Optometric Association (AOA)
- **Professional Background / Areas of Expertise:**SIBTF, Mild Traumatic Brain Injury evaluations
- **Publications, Teaching, or Speaking:**
- *Inventor of APD Tester, a pupil testing device (U.S. Patent* 9,681,805 B2),
- Scientific article contributor, The Reliability and Validity of a Handheld Relative Afferent Pupillary Tester in Diagnosing Optic Neuropathy, Journal of Ophthalmology and Clinical Research, Volume 4, Issue 1, 2017
- Instructor, Latest Pupil Examination Techniques, International Joint Commission on Allied Health Personnel in Ophthalmology, IJCAHPO’s 46th Annual Continuing Education Program, Chicago, October 2018
- Instructor, Ophthalmic Impairments, The California Society of Industrial Medicine and Surgery, April 2022
- Instructor, Worker's Compensation Disability Evaluations Related to the Visual System and Ocular History Taking for all Physicians, The American Occupational Health Conference (AOHC) 2022 Conference, Utah, May 2022
- Contributor to AMA Guides Newsletter, visual impairments in disability evaluations, Nov. 2024
  
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