Retina Doctors

Find a Doctor Who Sees Patients with Inherited Retinal Diseases

The following list of retinal doctors has been compiled by the Foundation Fighting Blindness for the convenience of patients and families. The accuracy of the list cannot be guaranteed nor should it be construed as an endorsement of any doctor.

Physicians listed are for reference only and may not be participating in My Retina Tracker/Genetic Testing nor other clinical trials.

Low Vision Specialists

• International Academy of Low Vision Specialists
  • Specialist Directory 

Alabama

• Birmingham
  
  • Dawn K. DeCarlo, OD, MS, MSPH, PhD

Arizona

• Phoenix
  • Benjamin Bakall MD, PhD

California

• Burbank
  • Linda Pang, OD
• Irvine
  • Henry Klassen MD, PhD
• Los Angeles Area
  • Michael Gorin, MD
  • Sun Young Lee, MD, PhD
  • Rachelle Lin OD, MS, FAAO 

  • Ashley Deemer, OD, FAAO

  • Kent Small, MD
  • Grace Tran Chi, O.D., F.A.A.O.
• Sacramento
  • David Telander MD, PhD 
• San Diego 
  • Shyamanga Borooah, MBBS, MRCP (UK), MRCSEd, FRCOphth, PhD
• San Francisco Area
  • Anita Agarwal, MD
  • Jacque Duncan, MD
  • Caesar Luo MD, FACS
  • Vinit Mahajan, MD, PhD 
  • Subhransu Ray MD, PhD
• Ventura

• • Mauricio Vargas M.D., Ph.D.

Colorado

• Colorado Springs
  • Cecinio "Nikko" Ronquillo, MD, PhD
• Denver
  • Alan Kimura MD, MPH
  • Marc Mathias, MD 

Connecticut

• New Haven
  • Brian Hafler, MD, PhD
  • Luciano Del Priore MD, PhD

Florida

• Southwest Florida
  • Katrina Mears, MD
• Ft. Lauderdale
  • Lawrence Halperin, MD
• Gainesville
  • Jinghua Chen, MD, PhD
  • Christine Kay, MD
• Jacksonville
  • Sandeep Grover, MD
• Miami
  • Byron Lam, MD

Georgia

• Atlanta
  • Nieraj Jain, MD

Hawaii

• Honolulu
  • Gregg T. Kokame, MD 
  • Farhad Safi, MD 

Illinois

• Chicago
  • Michael Grassi, MD
  • Robert Hyde, MD, PhD 
  • Mathew MacCumber, MD, PhD
  • Safa Rahmani, MD
  • Michael Shapiro, MD

Indiana

• Indianapolis
  • Ellie Kolbaum, OD 

Iowa

• Iowa City
  • Arlene Drack, MD
  • Edwin Stone, MD, PhD

Louisiana

• New Orleans
  • Maria A. Reinoso, MD

Maryland

• Baltimore 
  • Jefferson Doyle, MBBCh, MD, PhD, MHS
  • Mandeep Singh MBBS, MD, PhD
  • Janet Sunness, MD
• Bethesda
  • Brian Brooks, MD, PhD
• Silver Spring
  • Neil Adams, MD

Massachusetts

• Boston
  • Jason Comander, MD, PhD
  • Rachel M. Huckfeldt, MD, PhD
  • Eric Pierce, MD, PhD
  • Peter Zhao, MD 

Michigan

• Ann Arbor
  • Abigail Teich Fahim, MD, PhD
  • Kanishka Thiran Jayasundera, MB, ChB
• Grand Rapids
  • Liliya Sutherland, DO 

Minnesota

• Blaine
  • Chris Palmer
    
    
• Rochester
  • Alaina L. Softing Hataye, OD
  • Raymond Lezzi, Jr., MD
  • Polly Quiram MD, PhD 
  • Wing (Vivien) M. Yip, OD

New Jersey

• Newark
  • Marco Zarbin, MD, PhD, FACS

New York

• New York City
  • Stephen Tsang, MD, PhD

North Carolina

• Chapel Hill
  • Maja Kostic, MD

• Durham
  • Alessandro Iannaccone, MD, MS
  • Ramiro S. Maldonado, MD

Ohio

• Cleveland
  • Elias Traboulsi, MD, MEd
• Cincinnati
  • Robert A. Sisk, MD, FACS
• Columbus
  • Thomas Mendel, MD, PhD
  • Matthew Ohr, MD 

Oregon

• Portland
  • Mark Pennesi, MD, PhD
  • Richard Weleber, MD
  • Paul Yang MD, PhD

Pennsylvania

• Philadelphia
  • Tomas Aleman, MD
  • Christin DeMoss, OD
  • Samuel Jacobson, MD, PhD
  • Erin Kenny, OD
  • Chad Killen, OD
  • Bart Leroy, MD, PhD
  • Albert Maguire, MD
  • Katherine E.Uyhazi, MD, PhD
• Pittsburgh
  • José-Alain Sahel, MD

Tennessee

• Johnson City
  • Lauren Callon Rushing, MD 
•  Memphis
  • Dr. Mohammad Rafieetary, OD, FAAO, FORS, Dipl ABO & ABCMO

Texas

• Dallas
  • David Birch, PhD
• Houston
  • J. Timothy Stout, MD, PhD, MBA
• San Antonio
  • Stephanie Schmiedecke Barbieri, OD, FAAO, ABCMO, Dipl Low Vision

Utah

• Salt Lake City
  • Paul Bernstein, MD, PhD
  • Mary Elizabeth Hartnett, MD, FACS, FARVO

Virginia

• Richmond
  • Byron Ladd, MD
  • Natario Couser, MD

Washington

• Seattle
  
  • Jennifer Chao MD, PhD
  • Jennifer Huey MS, CGC 
  • David Saperstein, MD
• Spokane
  • Matthew Weed, MD 

West Virginia

• Morgantown
  • Monique Leys, MD 

Wisconsin

• Madison
  • David Gamm, MD, PhD
  • Melanie Schmitt, MD
  • Kimberly Stepien, MD
• Milwaukee
  • Thomas Connor, MD, MCOW