Richard H Legge, MD

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Richard H Legge, MD

Richard H Legge, MD

Ophthalmology (Board Certified)

Nebraska Medicine Employed Physician

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Can perform surgeries at: Nebraska Medical Center.

EDUCATION

  • Medical School
    UNMC College of Medicine, 1986
  • Internship
    UNMC College of Medicine, 1987
  • Residency
    Ophthalmology, Boston University Medical School, 1990
  • Fellowship
    Neuro-Ophthalmology, Tufts University/New England Medical Center, 1991

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Interests

Dr. Legge is Assistant Professor in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences. He received his medical degree from UNMC in 1986, completed an ophthalmology residency at Boston University in 1990 and a fellowship in neuro-ophthalmology at Tufts New England Medical Center a year later. His practice is limited to adults with neurologic vision disorders and children with vision loss of any kind. Dr. Legge also specializes in strabismus surgery, which is the moving of muscles to correct eye misalignment.

Diagnoses that are of special interest to Dr. Legge are:

  • Double vision
  • Pseudotumor cerebri
  • Brain related vision loss
  • Pediatric cortical visual impairment
  • Eye movement disorders
  • Optic nerve disease.

Dr. Legge is a Fellow of the North-American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society, Fellow of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, and currently serves as president of the Pediatric Cortical Visual Impairment Society. 

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Licensed to practice medicine in: Nebraska

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