Courtney Francis, MD
Dr. Francis was born and raised in and around Sacramento, California. She earned her bachelor's degree in neuroscience from Brown University. She received her M.D. at the University of Rochester. Following completion of her internship in internal medicine at Baystate Medical Center, she completed her residency in ophthalmology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She also completed a fellowship in neuro-ophthalmology at the University of Southern California's Doheny Eye Institute. Dr. Francis is a clinician educator whose primary clinical interest is neuro-ophthalmology. She also cares for adult patients with strabismus. She serves as the director of medical student education in the Department of Ophthalmology. Dr. Francis enjoys educating her patients on their diagnoses and making them active participants in their medical care. She treats patients with optic neuropathies, cranial nerve palsies, idiopathic intracranial hypertension, tumors involving the visual pathways, in addition to patients with systemic diseases such as multiple sclerosis, myasthenia gravis and Graves' disease. She offers both medical and surgical treatments for adult strabismus. Dr. Francis teaches residents and medical students how to evaluate and treat patients with neuro-ophthalmologic disorders and, also, trains residents in strabismus surgery.
