About Me
Dr. Chwalisz is a part-time member of the neuro-ophthalmology service at Mass. Eye and Ear, who specializes in Neuro-ophthalmic diseases.
Dr. Chwalisz grew up in Poznan, Poland and later in Berlin, Germany before moving to the United States. After college, he taught and researched Medical Ethics at the University of Oxford, UK. Dr. Chwalisz graduated from Northwestern University cum laude, then earned his medical degree at the University of Illinois College of Medicine with honors. He completed his Internal Medicine internship at the University of Chicago, and his neurology residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School, where he was recognized for his dedication to teaching residents and medical students when he received the Prof. Michael Ronthal Teaching Award in Neurology. He completed a clinical fellowship in Advanced General and Autoimmune Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital, and a second fellowship in Neuro-ophthalmology at Mass. Eye & Ear, where in addition to his clinical activities he researched treatment outcomes in idiopathic intracranial hypertension (pseudotumor cerebri). As a clinician and teacher, Dr. Chwalisz is passionate about helping patients with neurological and neuro-ophthalmic disorders. Dr. Chwalisz's is interested in the intersection of the brain and the eye in health and disease, and he has a particular focus on inflammatory, infectious, and autoimmune disorders affecting the eye and the nervous system.
Clinical Interests
Neuro-ophthalmic diseases, vestibular and oculomotor systems, ocular motility disorders, ocular stroke, brainstem and cranial nerve diseases, dizziness and balance disorders, inflammatory disorders of the nervous system, autoimmune neurologic conditions, optic neuritis, myasthenia gravis, multiple sclerosis, neuromyelitis optica, neurology of infectious diseases, including HIV.