Tamer H. Mahmoud, M.D., Ph.D.

Tamer H. Mahmoud, M.D., Ph.D.

Program Director, Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellowship

Tamer H. Mahmoud, M.D., Ph.D. is a board-certified, fellowship-trained ophthalmologist at Associated Retinal Consultants, serving patients in southeastern Michigan. He specializes in vitreoretinal diseases.

Dr. Mahmoud is a Professor of Ophthalmology at Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine and Director of the Vitreoretinal Fellowship Training Program at Associated Retinal Consultants. He moved from North Carolina in 2017 where he was a tenured Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and the Program Director of the vitreoretinal surgery fellowship at the Duke Eye Center. He developed many surgical techniques including the first human autologous retinal transplantation, and the injection of subretinal air to displace submacular hemorrhage. He also introduced chandelier buckles to the United States and developed the ILM retracting door technique for macular holes.

The nano subretinal gateway device was developed in 2019 to access the subretinal space without PPV to displace subretinal hemorrhage, but also for injection of gene therapy, drugs, removal of PFO and tumor biopsy. In 2022, the concept of using the epiretinal membrane to close large macular holes was introduced in cases of combined large holes with membranes. In 2023, he developed and performed the first combined amniotic membrane graft with autologous retinal transplant to treat large refractory myopic macular holes with some atrophy. For the last few years, Dr. Mahmoud has focused on running global studies to treat macular holes by working with surgeons around the world to develop guidelines to treat challenging holes using many techniques that have been developed over the years.

Dr. Mahmoud graduated Valedictorian from Ainshams University, finished his internship, residency and vitreoretinal fellowship at the Duke Eye Center. He has been invited as a guest speaker all around the world, delivered many named lectures, and runs many surgical courses worldwide.

He is a co-founder of the Duke Fellows Advanced Vitreous Surgery Course and the North Carolina Retina Club. He served on the national Therapeutic Safety Committee (TSC) for monitoring of drugs and devices and was the program director of the Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellowship at the Kresge Eye Institute in Michigan before moving back to Duke in 2011. Wayne State University-Kresge Eye Institute established the “Tamer H. Mahmoud, MD Endowed Fellowship Research Award” in 2012.

Dr. Mahmoud is fluent in English, Arabic and French.