David L. Guyton MD

David L. Guyton, M.D., is the Zanvyl Krieger Professor of Pediatric Ophthalmology. His clinical practice in strabismus is heavily surgical, both pediatric and adult, with emphasis on re-operations and cyclovertical surgery, using adjustable sutures. He graduated summa cum laude from the University of Mississippi, graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Medical School in 1969, completed a fellowship at the Laboratory of Neural Control at NIH, and published one of his first research papers in the journal Science.

He completed his residency in ophthalmology at the Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins in 1976. After a fellowship in ocular motility and strabismus with Dr. Gunter von Noorden at the Baylor College of Medicine, he returned to Johns Hopkins as Director of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Adult Strabismus in 1978, where he continues to serve as the Zanvyl Krieger Professor of Ophthalmology.