The Neuro-Ophthalmology Research Disease Investigator Consortium (NORDIC) is a cohesive and extensive group of Neuro-Ophthalmologists, other doctors, coordinators, biostatisticians, clinical trial experts and reading centers, who have developed a structured organization to perform prospective clinical research with the support of the National Eye Institute of the NIH, other funding agencies, and industry.  Click here to read our mission statement.

NORDIC is currently conducting one major study, Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension Treatment Trial (IIHTT).  IIH, also called pseudotumor cerebri, is a disorder of elevated intracranial pressure of unknown case. Its incidence is 22.5 new cases each year per 100,000 overweight women of childbearing age; its incidence is rising in parallel with the obesity epidemic. It affects about 100,000 Americans. Learn more about this study by clicking here.