Carl Cholin Awh MD, FASRS

Carl C. Awh (pronounced “Oh”), MD, FASRS, is the president of Tennessee Retina, an 11-physician private retina practice headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee. He completed a fellowship in vitreoretinal surgery at the Duke University Eye Center with Dr. Robert Machemer and began his career at the Wilmer Eye Institute, where he was the founding co-director of the Johns Hopkins Microsurgery Advanced Design Laboratory. He is an active clinical trial investigator, has 27 issued or pending U.S. patents for surgical devices and treatments, and has designed dozens of commercially successful vitreoretinal surgical instruments. Dr. Awh has lectured in over twenty countries and on every continent (except Antarctica!). He serves on the Executive Committee and is the immediate Past-President of the American Society of Retina Specialists. He is a past member of the board of EURETINA, the European Retina Society.

Dr. Awh has been named to the “Best Doctors in America” every year since 2007 and is the recipient of Honor Awards and Senior Honor Awards from both the American Society of Retina Specialists and the American Academy of Ophthalmology. In 2021 he received the Presidential Honor Award from the ASRS and was named a Fellow of the ASRS. Dr. Awh was inducted as an inaugural member of the Retina Hall of Fame in 2017. He is the happily married father of three children and enjoys golf, running, and travel.