Majda Hadziahmetovic MD

Majda Hadzihametovic, M.D., received her M.D. from the University of Belgrade School of Medicine in 2006, followed by a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania, Scheie Eye Institute, from 2007 to 2012. After completing a year of General Surgery training at Drexel University College of Medicine in 2012, she completed Ophthalmology Residency at the same institution from 2013 to 2016, where she served as a chief resident during her final year. After finishing Medical Retina training at Duke, in 2017 she joined the faculty.

Dr. Hadziahmetovic is a clinician scientist with a present research agenda focused on teleophthalmology. She is particularly interested in employing remote diagnosis in early diagnosis, suitable referral, and timely treatment of diabetic retinopathy and age-related macular degeneration using cutting-edge noninvasive optic coherence tomography (OCT) imaging and fundus photography.

Dr. Hadziahmetovic also has a great interest in basic science, especially in investigating new mouse models of retinal diseases. Her long-term goal is a better understanding of disease processes in Age-related macular degeneration using different animal models and the potential reversal of morphological changes.