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
  • Michael Gorin, MD
• San Diego
  • Shyamanga Borooah, MBBS, MRCP (UK), MRCSEd, FRCOphth, PhD
• San Francisco
  • Jacque Duncan, MD

Colorado

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

Connecticut

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

Florida

• Central 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

Illinois

• Chicago
  • Michael Grassi, MD

Iowa

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

Kentucky

• Lexington
  • Ramiro S. Maldonado, MD

Louisiana

• New Orleans
  • Maria A. Reinoso, MD

Maryland

• Baltimore
  • 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

Michigan

• Ann Arbor
  • Abigail Teich Fahim, MD, PhD
  • Kanishka Thiran Jayasundera, MB, ChB

Minnesota

• Rochester
  • Alaina L. Softing Hataye, OD
  • Raymond Iezzi, Jr., MD
  • 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

Ohio

• Cleveland
  • Elias Traboulsi, MD, MEd
• Cincinnati
  • Robert A. Sisk, M.D., F.A.C.S.

Oklahoma

• Oklahoma City
  • Sun Young Lee, MD, PhD

Oregon

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

Pennsylvania

• Philadelphia
  • Tomas Aleman, MD
  • Samuel Jacobson, MD, PhD
  • Bart Leroy, MD, PhD
  • Albert Maguire, MD
  • Katherine E.Uyhazi, MD, PhD
• Pittsburgh
  • José-Alain Sahel, MD

Tennessee

• 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
  • David Saperstein, MD
  • Jennifer Chao MD, PhD

Wisconsin

• Madison
  • David Gamm, MD, PhD
  • Melanie Schmitt, MD
  • Kimberly Stepien, MD