Henry O’Halloran, M.D.

My daughter has been seeing Dr. O’Halloran for over 10 years. She had a lazy eye, and he started her off with patching the eye when she was in 2^nd grade, and when it didn’t correct itself after 2 years, he performed surgery to correct the problem. Dr. O is wonderful with kids. He put my daughter at ease, and she was never upset at needing to go see the doctor! I wish he had more office hours, but he is worth waiting for.

Saw Dr OHaleran today. His tech, Shirin, was so sweet and my son loved her. She sang little songs and made funny noises and was quick and efficient in her exam of my 20 month old son. Dr. OHaleran was very pleasant, good bedside manner, did not seem rushed in the exam room even though I could tell he had a packed schedule. He took the time to ask about our family and tell is a little about his which just makes you appreciate him as a person and father. Look forward to working with him in the future for my child’s eye health.

My son has Special needs and has been seeing Dr. O Halloran for over 3 years now. He has great bedside manner and is very thorough and gentle as well as his Techs. The Front Desk could be much better. They have their own eyeglass store inside the office as well. Which is very convenient and they have brands that most optometry places don’t carry, especially ones for special needs and very small children all the way down to infants sizes. I give 4 out of 5 stars due to the unfriendly customer service you get at the front desk and in the optometry store. But other than that I recommend.

Dr. O’Halloran is the best! He performed surgery on my daughter’s eyes a few years ago and it was a wonderful success. On top of being a top notch surgeon, my daughter and son love him. He not only diagnosed my daughter’s eyes but he referred us to another doctor because I had told him of her balance issues which I thought might be related to her eyes. For years we had been telling our pediatrician about the balance issues only to be dismissed. If it weren’t for his referral we have no idea how long it would have taken us to get a proper diagnoses of a much larger issue. This is one doctor you can trust and I have and will continue to recommend him to anyone who needs a fantastic surgeon/​opthamologist who is caring, wonderful and compassionate. I would give him 10 stars if they let me!

Wow where do I start, took my son to see O Halloran because the Costco eye doctor said he thought my son had a retina detachment. O Halloran said he saw no damage, no tear, no detachment, no damage to his eye. He said it was lazy eye. He prescribed him glasses, and said come back in 3 months for a recheck, we told this doctor that he could not see out of his left eye. again he said he saw no damage, and he though his vision was completely correctable. We went back in 3 months for a follow up. O Halloran was booked until the end of August 13 when I called in May to get him a appt. I asked to see another doctor in the group. We saw Dr Kelly. She told us that my son a full retina detachment. The next day I received a voice message from O Halloran saying he spoke to Dr Kelly and he was sure that we must be very upset and he hoped he did not mis diagnose our sons eye. Well guess what he did.
Our son had a complete re attachment surgery within 6 days. He has lost most of his sight in his left eye.
I am completely disgusted with this doctor, and fill that he should be held accountable for the loss of my sons vision.
Our son suffered no injury previously or after this doctors diagnosis.
This will change his life forever, more surgery yes.
He will now have to live with the vision of 1 eye, no sports, Ect
And this will defiantly effect what he will do to earn a living when he becomes a adult.

Dr. O’Halloran was great with our son. Diagnosis was dead on, could have performed other unnecessary procedures that other doctors had recommended, but didn’t. Worked very well with our sons neurologist in identifying his blindness issues. We had a good experience and a great outcome.

Dr. O’Halloran is very likeable and personable and confident. He is most definitely NOT a specialist in my son’s condition.
He performed a surgical procedure on my son to remove an abnormal growth on my son’s eye that threatened to obstruct his vision. We were referred to Rady for this procedure by my son’s pediatrician.
We waited 3 months to get an initial appt. with Rady. He performed the surgery and successfully removed the growth, but he never even prescribed the medications he had specified himself in the post-​surgical instructions to prevent regrowth, and within 8 weeks the growth had returned as if he’d never taken it off.
In addition the rapid regrowth compromised my son’s vision and his eye was «tethered» by the regrowth. Dr. O’H proposed doing the exact same surgery the same way and using a different medication post-​surgery to remove the regrowth.
At this point we sought four opinions from specialists at Shiley, Scripps, St. Jude Childrens Research Hospital, and USC. By *unanimous* opinion, these doctors disagreed with Dr. O’H’s approach and it became clear that his strategy was most definitely *not* the standard of care for my son’s condition. In addition, my son’s condition is not common in kids and only a very few pediatric ophthtalmologists do have a specialty in this condition, there are none at Rady.. He should have referred us, a colleague of Dr. O’H in San Diego told us that he has as much experience as Dr. O’H in this condition and that he never would have considered taking my son as a patient, he would have referred us to a corneal specialist.
We trusted him and are deeply disappointed that he didn’t refer us to an appropriate specialist. We are now with a doctor at USC who has experience in my son’s condition in both kids and adults, she has re-​operated and the vision loss my son suffered after Dr. O’H’s procedure has been regained. She offered the standard of care treatment post-​operatively and my son’s growth has not recurred so far (10 weeks, it came back in 8 weeks with after Dr. O’H).
The first best chance we had of getting rid of this growth was the first time and with each subsequent surgery the chance of recurrence increases.
We are deeply disappointed that we entrusted my son’s care to Dr. O’H. I don’t doubt his actual surgical skill, but his overconfident manner and the fact that he wasn’t willing to admit to his lack of experience in the area of my son’s condition and refer us to Shiley or another doctor that knew his/​her stuff in this area has completely eroded our trust in Rady ophthalmology.
In general we love Rady, my son has multiple medical conditions and sees many Rady specialists and most of the doctors there are first-​rate.
If you are considering Dr. O’Halloran, I would STRONGLY suggest getting a second opinion from Shiley or USC (Doheny Eye Center is their office in Orange County) before making your decision. In addition, the cost for the second surgery was something like $ 800 less than the charges for the same surgery and we have absolute confidence in our new doctor.
Because of our experience, I would never again trust him to do any surgical procedure on any of my kids. Without trust there is nothing.

Dr. O’halloran is amazing! He’s a brilliant doctor and my kids adore him. We see him for my son who has a chronic eye condition. Dr. O’halloran is wonderful with kids, he talks to them at their level and he’s fun, silly and just makes the whole experience for the kids easy. I can’t say enough good things about him.
I do agree with the other reviewer, the office itself isn’t the best, they do have a lot of patients coming/​going. The staff is ok and yes the wait can be long, Dr. O’Halloran is very popular.