CNS Consultants

Dr. Carl Garbus

Dr. Carl Garbus graduated from the Southern California College of Optometry in 1980. He has two private practices in Valencia; Family Vision Care Optometry and Neuro Vision Rehabilitation Institute. Currently the practices emphasize care for children and adults with vision deficits from traumatic brain injury, stroke and developmental and learning problems. Another area key interest is keratoconus. For the past 30 years Dr. Garbus has worked with patients who have keratoconus in his private practice, and at the Doheny Eye Institute at USC. He has made many presentations to professional groups on fitting contact lenses for patients who have this corneal disease.

Dr. Garbus has hospital privileges and consults at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, Cottage Rehabilitation Hospital in Santa Barbara. In addition, Dr. Garbus works with the following rehabilitation centers; Centre For Neuro Skills in Encino and Bakersfield, Solutions At Santa Barbara and the Brain Injury Specialists. He has made various presentations and in-services to optometric societies, occupational therapy groups, and PTA groups regarding vision problems. Another area of interest is working with children who have learning problems. Autism is on the rise and these children have many vision issues that need to be addressed. Family Vision Care has a new office that is equipped to help children who have autism.

Dr. Garbus was president of the Los Angeles County Optometric Society in 1993 and is the current president of the Neuro Optometric Rehabilitation Association (NORA). His term is 2010 to 2012. NORA is a multidisciplinary organization emphasizing rehabilitation of patients with neurological disease and traumatic brain injury.