PADULA INSTITUTE OF VISION

About Dr. William Padula

William V. Padula, OD, DPNAP, FAAO, FNORA

William V. Padula, O.D. is the Director of the Padula Institute of Vision in Guilford, Connecticut.  He is a graduate of the Pennsylvania College of Optometry.  Dr. Padula is the Founding President of the Neuro Optometric Rehabilitation Association as well as the Founding Chairperson of the American Optometric Association Low Vision Section.  Dr. Padula has been a consultant to the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Vision.  Dr. Padula has conducted research discovering Post Trauma Vision Syndrome and Visual Midline Shift Syndrome.  He has served as the Director of the Low Vision Clinic at the Rehabilitation Center in New Haven, Connecticut and was a National Consultant in Low Vision Services for the American Foundation for the Blind. Dr. Padula also served as Director of Vision Research to the Gesell Institute of Human Development.  He is a consultant and founder of a low vision clinic named in his honor at the Zhongshan Eye Research Hospital in Guangzhou, China and regularly consults with the Centro de Aprendizaje de Cuernavaca in Mexico. Dr. Padula is an Associate Professor at the Pennsylvania College of Optometry at Salus University in Philadelphia, Pa. He was Chairperson for the National Academy of Practice in Optometry (NAPO) and was inducted into this honorary academy in 1997.  He is on staff at the Hospital for Special Care in New Britain, Connecticut, Gaylord Hospital in Wallingford, Connecticut and consults with many programs for head-injured persons throughout the United States.   

Dr. Padula has written numerous publications including original research and a book titled Neuro-Optometric Rehabilitation, and has developed three award winning professional video tapes about vision, Post Trauma Vision Syndrome and Visual Midline Shift Syndrome.  He has also been awarded five U.S. patents.  Dr. Padula is also the primary author for a chapter regarding vision in the medical text “Brain Injury Medicine: Principles and Practice.”  Dr. Padula is currently in private practice in Guilford, Connecticut.