Demetrios G. Vavvas MD, PhD

Demetrios G. Vavvas, M.D., Ph.D., holds the Monte J. Wallace Ophthalmology Chair in Retina and is an Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School and Co-Director of the Ocular Regenerative Medicine Institute. Dr. Vavvas serves as a full-time clinician-scientist on the Retina Service at Massachusetts Eye and Ear. He earned his B.Sc. in Neurosciences at McGill University and his M.D., Ph.D. from Boston University School of Medicine. He received his ophthalmology training in the Harvard Medical School Residency Program. After serving as the Chief Resident and Director of the Eye Trauma service at Mass. Eye and Ear, he completed a fellowship in Vitreoretinal Surgery there where he received the Fellow of the Year award for his resident teaching and served as the Chief Fellow.