Linda Lawrence, MD
Ophthalmologist
Dr. Lawrence graduated from the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston
(UTMB) in 1982 and then internship in Internal Medicine and residency in Ophthalmology also at UTMB. She established a solo, private practice in 1986 in comprehensive ophthalmology with pediatric emphasis in Salina.
In 1992, she began functional vision assessment in the early intervention, Part C program at Salina Regional Health Center, Kansas for all children with disabilities. In 2006, she began as a consultant for outreach services with the Kansas State School for the Blind for children across the state. She has been a volunteer consultant for Centro Ann Sullivan del Peru (CASP) in Lima, Peru for 20 years, an educational NGO for students with neuro-developmental disabilities as well as Nueva Vida, a special education school in Guatemala.
Dr. Lawrence has been a speaker at many USA and international meetings for teachers, early interventionists, and ophthalmologists, to train trainers to perform early assessment and intervention for infants and toddlers with low vision and multiple disabilities. This includes locally in Kansas, nationally in the USA, and internationally in Peru, Brazil, Panama, India, Nigeria, Vietnam, Haiti, Bangladesh, and the Middle East. She has organized or participated more than a hundred medical mission trips internationally to teach, assess and provide interventions for children with low vision and additional challenges.
Dr. Lawrence helped establish the Pediatric Low Vision Rehabilitation committee at AAPOS to address the training of pediatric ophthalmologists in the area of low vision and CVI. She is past member of the AAO Low Vision Rehabilitation Committee. She coauthored a book chapter on Pediatric Low Vision, is currently working on two other book chapters for APH and has coauthored additional papers on low vision and CVI. She consulted with the WHO International Consensus scientific committee helping to develop the International Low Vision Rehabilitation Standards (including birth to 3 years). She has consulted as a volunteer with CDC on the congenital Zika syndrome and the NIH for a CVI working group.
Dr. Lawrence was honored by the AAO with the International Humanitarian Services Award in 2009 for her volunteer work in Kansas, and internationally. She has received the achievement award from AAPOS 2017, the Senior Achievement Award from the AAO, and the AAO Secretariat Award in 2018 and 2022. In 2025 AAPOS honored her with the Outstanding Humanitarian award at the March 2025 meeting.
In 1992, she began functional vision assessment in the early intervention, Part C program at Salina Regional Health Center, Kansas for all children with disabilities. In 2006, she began as a consultant for outreach services with the Kansas State School for the Blind for children across the state. She has been a volunteer consultant for Centro Ann Sullivan del Peru (CASP) in Lima, Peru for 20 years, an educational NGO for students with neuro-developmental disabilities as well as Nueva Vida, a special education school in Guatemala.
Dr. Lawrence has been a speaker at many USA and international meetings for teachers, early interventionists, and ophthalmologists, to train trainers to perform early assessment and intervention for infants and toddlers with low vision and multiple disabilities. This includes locally in Kansas, nationally in the USA, and internationally in Peru, Brazil, Panama, India, Nigeria, Vietnam, Haiti, Bangladesh, and the Middle East. She has organized or participated more than a hundred medical mission trips internationally to teach, assess and provide interventions for children with low vision and additional challenges.
Dr. Lawrence helped establish the Pediatric Low Vision Rehabilitation committee at AAPOS to address the training of pediatric ophthalmologists in the area of low vision and CVI. She is past member of the AAO Low Vision Rehabilitation Committee. She coauthored a book chapter on Pediatric Low Vision, is currently working on two other book chapters for APH and has coauthored additional papers on low vision and CVI. She consulted with the WHO International Consensus scientific committee helping to develop the International Low Vision Rehabilitation Standards (including birth to 3 years). She has consulted as a volunteer with CDC on the congenital Zika syndrome and the NIH for a CVI working group.
Dr. Lawrence was honored by the AAO with the International Humanitarian Services Award in 2009 for her volunteer work in Kansas, and internationally. She has received the achievement award from AAPOS 2017, the Senior Achievement Award from the AAO, and the AAO Secretariat Award in 2018 and 2022. In 2025 AAPOS honored her with the Outstanding Humanitarian award at the March 2025 meeting.