About Us

Robert Gold MD

Robert Gold MD – Secretary

Robert S. Gold, M.D. has been in private practice as the senior pediatric ophthalmologist at Eye Physicians of Central Florida in Maitland and Orlando, Florida for since July of 1987. Dr. Gold attended both undergraduate and medical school at Tulane University in New Orleans, followed by his internship at the Ochsner Foundation Hospital and Clinic and then ophthalmology residency at Louisiana State University, also in New Orleans. He did a pediatric ophthalmology and adult strabismus fellowship at the James Hall Eye Foundation and Scottish Rite Children’s Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia before coming to Orlando in 1987. Dr. Gold is on the staff of both the Arnold Palmer Children’s Hospital and Florida Hospital for Children in Orlando. He is past president of the American Eye Study Club and is the current pediatrics and strabismus editor of Ocular Surgery News.  Since 2016, Dr. Gold has been on the board of directors of the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus and is the current Secretary/Treasurer. His tenure on the Ophthalmic Mutual Insurance Corporation began in 2011 and is currently a member of the board of directors on the Risk Management and Underwriting Committees and serves as the chairman of OMIC’s Retinopathy of Prematurity Task Force.