About
J. Fernando Arevalo, M.D., Ph.D, F.A.C.S., F.A.S.R.S., is chairman of ophthalmology at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, and the Edmund F. and Virginia Ball Professor of Ophthalmology, specializing in vitreoretinal diseases. A gifted surgeon, he has performed more than 10000 retinal detachment operations. He also teaches and conducts clinical research that has led to advances in the treatment of complex retinal detachments, vitreo-retinal complications of refractive surgery, diabetic retinopathy and age-related macular degeneration (combination therapy and anti-angiogenics), and visual prosthesis. Dr. Arevalo, completed his medical and ophthalmology training in Caracas, Venezuela,...