Victoria S Pelak MD

Professor of Neurology and Ophthalmology
University of Colorado School of Medicine

Dr. Pelak has subspecialty fellowship training in Neuro-ophthalmology and certification in Behavioral Neurology and Neuropsychiatry. She specializes in seeing patients with visual problems related to neurologic diseases, and she has clinical expertise in higher order vision symptoms related to disease of the central nervous system, including neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer disease, Parkinson disease, and similar disorders. She built and founded the Brain and Vision Laboratory at the University of Colorado School of Medicine to study higher-order visual perception and has a particular research interest in visual motion processing.

Dr. Pelak founded the Colorado Posterior Cortical Atrophy (PCA) Syndrome Support Group for those with neurodegenerative disease causing PCA syndrome, which presents with higher-order visual dysfunction. The support group has remained active since 2012.

Dr. Pelak completed her medical degree in her hometown of Detroit, Michigan at Wayne State University School of Medicine, and she completed her residency in neurology and her fellowship training at the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Pelak serves on the Board of the North American Neuro-ophthalmology Society and is current the Executive Chair of the Department of Neurology at the University of Colorado and the Interim Section Chief of Behavioral Neurology