![]() ![]() All applicants are encouraged to submit a completed application as early as possible. Īll applications come thru The SF Match, and the application process opens on July 1, 2023. The Wills Retina Fellowship is accredited by the Association of University Professors of Ophthalmology (AUPO) and meets guidelines set forth by the AUPO fellowship compliance committee. ![]() Upon graduation, fellows are well prepared for any facility of practice. ![]() The breadth of pathology and richness of clinical, procedural and surgical training is unparalleled. Fellows are closely mentored by the Wills Eye Hospital/Mid Atlantic Retina faculty in their medical and surgical training. Fellows are the primary providers staffing Wills Retina Service and provide retina consult services for the Wills Eye Emergency Room and Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. All clinical and surgical activities for the fellows are located at the Wills Eye Hospital. Arunan Sivalingam (fellowship director) and Dr. The Wills Retina Fellowship combines surgical duties with clinical and academic responsibilities in a two-year combined medical/surgical fellowship. They are in practice in all parts of the United States and Canada, as well as in Puerto Rico, South America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Former fellows are program directors, tenured professors, academic researchers and thought leaders. The chief goal of the Fellowship is to develop excellence in the medical and surgical care of the retina and vitreous, foster academic research, and develop future leaders in the field of vitreoretinal surgery. He was named among the top 150 ophthalmologists in the US by Newsweek in 2021.Established in 1960, the Wills Eye Retina Service is the oldest vitreoretinal surgery fellowship in the United States and has been instrumental in training almost 200 retinal fellows in the diagnosis and management of retinal and vitreous diseases. He has been listed multiple times through the years as a retina “Top Doctor” in the Philadelphia Magazine, Philadelphia Life, Mainline Today and South Jersey Magazine. He was named one of the “150 Top Innovators in Retina” by Ocular Surgery News, selected a Charter Inductee of the Retina Hall of Fame in 2017, and on the Ophthalmology Power List 20 of the top 100 most influential people in the world of ophthalmology. He is a former examiner for the American Board of Ophthalmology and a recipient of the American Academy of Ophthalmology Achievement, Senior Achievement, Secretariat, and Lifetime Achievement Awards along with the America Society of Retina Specialists Honor, Senior Honor, and Founders Awards. He is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and an active member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, The Retina Society, The Macula Society, and The American Society of Retina Specialists. He has served on the scientific editorial board for the American Journal of Ophthalmology, Review of Ophthalmology, Current Opinion in Ophthalmology, Yearbook of Ophthalmology, Retinal Physician, and Retina Today. Regillo has authored over 200 scientific papers, lectured nationally and abroad, and has published 9 major textbooks in the field. He is the former Wills Retina Fellowship Program Director.ĭr. He is the founder and former Director of the Wills Eye Clinical Retina Research Unit, prior Chairman of the Wills Eye Institutional Review Board and prior Chairman of the American Academy’s Basic and Clinical Science Course (BCSC) Retina Section committee. Regillo is currently the Director of the Retina Service of Wills Eye Hospital, Professor of Ophthalmology at Thomas Jefferson University School of Medicine, and Principle Investigator of numerous major international clinical trials investigating new forms of treatment for macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, and a variety of other retinal conditions. In 1998, he returned to Philadelphia to join Mid Atlantic Retina and the Retina Service of Wills Eye Hospital.ĭr. There he was Co- Director of the Ophthalmology Department’s Retina Service, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of California, San Diego, and recipient of a Naval Commendation medal and the Ophthalmology Department’s annual teaching award. He was appointed the Co-Chief Resident and awarded a Heed Ophthalmic Fellowship during his postgraduate training.Īfter training, he was commissioned a Major in the United States Air Force and stationed four years as a vitreoretinal surgeon at the San Diego Naval Medical Center. He performed his internship in internal medicine at Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, and both his ophthalmology residency and vitreoretinal fellowship at Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia. He received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School on a full military scholarship. Regillo, MD, FASRS was a Phi Kappa Phi graduate of Northeastern University, College of Pharmacy, where he was the class Valedictorian. ![]()
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