Gary C. Brown, MD, MBA

Chief and Director of the Wills Eye Institute Retina Service, Attending Surgeon at Wills Eye, Professor of Ophthalmology at Jefferson Medical College, and Co-Director of the Center for Value-Based Medicine, Dr. Brown is an active researcher who has served as an investigator for multiple National Institutes of Health and industry clinical trials. He has authored over 450 medical writings and eight textbooks on diabetic retinopathy, macular degeneration, retinal detachment and other vitreoretinal diseases.           

Dr. Brown has been elected by his colleagues to "America's Best Doctors" and "Top Docs" in Philadelphia Magazine annually since 1995, as well as to Top Ophthalmologists in the United States, Top Ophthalmologists in South Jersey and the Center for the Study of Services (CSS) Guide to Top Doctors. He has served as President of the Pennsylvania Academy of Ophthalmology, President of the Philadelphia Ophthalmic Club and President of the Wills Hospital Society.

Following graduating from Colgate University in 1971, Gary attended Upstate Medical Center School of Medicine, and an internship at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta. Subsequently he completed a residency in ophthalmology and fellowship in vitreoretinal surgery at Wills Eye Hospital.