Uri S. Soiberman, M.D. joined Wilmer's Cornea faculty in 2016, and is an associate professor of ophthalmology and the director of the cornea fellowship at the Wilmer Eye Institute. Dr. Soiberman's main clinical and research focus is keratoconus, and his research has been funded by the National Eye Institute and Research to Prevent Blindness. Dr. Soiberman offers his keratoconus patients advanced surgical treatments, including corneal collagen crosslinking, deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty and other types of corneal transplants for keratoconus. Dr. Soiberman also performs endothelial keratoplasty (DSEK, DMEK, DSO) for patients with Fuchs endothelial dystrophy and corneal edema. In addition, Dr. Soiberman specializes in complex cataract surgery, and offers his patients specialty intraocular lenses (such as astigmatism correcting or multifocal lenses). His surgical acumen includes surgery for dislocated lenses and secondary implantation of intraocular lenses. Dr. Soiberman is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Meibomianitis. His top areas of expertise are Keratoconus, Cataract, Interstitial Keratitis, Corneal Transplant, and Vitrectomy.

Sezen Karakus, M.D., is an assistant professor of ophthalmology specializing in corneal and external eye diseases, with a particular focus on ocular surface conditions in patients with autoimmune and inflammatory disorders such as Sjögren's syndrome and ocular rosacea. Her expertise also extends to corneal diseases involving abnormal sensory nerves, such as neurotrophic keratitis and neuropathic corneal pain. She is skilled in performing routine and complex procedures, including cataract and intraocular lens surgeries, refractive surgeries, corneal transplants, ocular surface reconstructions and amniotic membrane transplantations. At the Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins Medicine's Ocular Surface Diseases and Dry Eye Clinic, she plays an integral role as a team member, providing her clinical insights and expertise. Additionally, she serves as an ophthalmologist in the Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS) program at Hopkins. This unique position allows her to address dysautonomia-related neuropathic eye pain and ocular surface diseases in patients with POTS, combining her eye specialization with a focus on this specific medical condition. As a clinician-scientist, her research revolves around ocular surface diseases. Dr. Karakus is actively investigating the role of the ocular surface microbiome in the pathogenesis of ocular rosacea. Her involvement in the NIH U24 Ocular Surface Microbiome Consortium allows her to collaborate with fellow experts in the field to standardize research methrods and develop validated protocols for studying the ocular surface microbiome. Another area of research interest for Dr. Karakus involves serological and tear biomarkers in Sjögren's disease. Through a longitudinal study, she aims to determine the utility of tissue-specific autoantibodies for early diagnosis of Sjögren's disease in patients with dry eyes. Understanding the broader impact of Sjögren's disease on the peripheral and central nervous systems is crucial, as it can manifest as severe ocular surface disease with diminished corneal sensation (neurotrophic keratitis) or intense eye pain without significant ocular surface disease (neuropathic corneal pain). Her clinical expertise and research contributions have earned Dr. Karakus recognition regionally and nationally, as evidenced by her role as a consultant in complex dry eye and ocular surface diseases. She takes pride in her dedication to advancing the understanding of ocular surface conditions and providing the best possible care for patients. By combining her specialization in corneal and external eye disease with her involvement in the POTS program and cutting-edge research on ocular surface diseases, Dr. Karakus strives to make a significant impact on patient care and contribute to the advancement of ophthalmology and related fields. Dr. Karakus is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Meibomianitis. Her top areas of expertise are Dry Eye Syndrome, Sjogren Syndrome, Cataract, Conjunctivitis (Pink Eye), and Corneal Transplant.

John Baer is an Ophthalmologist in Lutherville, Maryland. Dr. Baer is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Meibomianitis. His top areas of expertise are Cataract, Pigment-Dispersion Syndrome, Glaucoma, and Blepharitis.

Ashley A. Campbell M.D., is an associate professor in the division of oculoplastics at the Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins Medicine. After receiving her medical degree at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, she completed her ophthalmology residency at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary (Harvard Medical School). She then completed additional specialty training as an American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (ASOPRS) fellow at Columbia, Cornell, New York University, and Manhattan Eye Ear and Throat Hospital. Dr. Campbell’s clinical interests include reconstructive and cosmetic surgery of the eyelid and periorbital area, management of tear drainage issues, Mohs reconstruction, eyelid and orbital tumors, orbital surgery, orbital trauma, thyroid eye disease, and facial rejuvenation. Dr. Campbell is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Meibomianitis. Her top areas of expertise are Thyroid Eye Disease, Chalazion, Graves Disease, and Entropion.

Donna Booth is an Ophthalmologist in Lutherville, Maryland. Dr. Booth is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Meibomianitis. Her top areas of expertise are Cataract, Dry Eye Syndrome, Glaucoma, and Ocular Hypertension (OHT). Dr. Booth is currently accepting new patients.

Brett Katzen is an Ophthalmologist in Lutherville, Maryland. Dr. Katzen is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Meibomianitis. His top areas of expertise are Cataract, Glaucoma, Late-Onset Retinal Degeneration, and Dry Eye Syndrome. Dr. Katzen is currently accepting new patients.

Clarke Nelson is an Ophthalmologist in Towson, Maryland. Dr. Nelson is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Meibomianitis. His top areas of expertise are Cataract, Chalazion, Eyelid Bump, and Glaucoma. Dr. Nelson is currently accepting new patients.

Francis Grumbine is an Ophthalmologist in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Grumbine is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Meibomianitis. His top areas of expertise are Chalazion, Eyelid Bump, Meibomianitis, and Entropion. Dr. Grumbine is currently accepting new patients.

Katherine Duncan is an Ophthalmologist in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Duncan is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Meibomianitis. Her top areas of expertise are Chalazion, Eyelid Bump, Meibomianitis, and Cataract. Dr. Duncan is currently accepting new patients.

"Irene Kuo has been designated one of America's top ophthalmologists, and received the Patient's Choice Award. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and a member of the Cornea Society, an honorary society to which membership is based on a thesis and publications. She serves as president (2023-24) of the Ocular Microbiology and Immunology Group, an international group of ophthalmologists and scientists dedicated to studying ocular infections and inflammatory conditions. Dr. Kuo is co-investigator of the National Institutes of Health/National Eye Institute-funded Maximizing Use of High-Quality Evidence in Eye Care: Cochrane Eyes and Vision US Project (CEV-US), which produces gold-standard Cochrane systematic reviews of treatments for eye diseases and conditions for stakeholders including patients, doctors and policymakers. She is an examiner for the American Board of Ophthalmology, and is on the editorial boards of Ophthalmology Science, Translational Vision Science and Technology (a journal of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology) and Cornea Open, the open access journal accompanying Cornea, the official journal of the Cornea Society. Dr. Kuo received her doctor of medicine degree from the University of California, San Francisco and completed her ophthalmology residency at the University of Southern California's Doheny Eye Institute. She then completed a fellowship in cornea, refractive surgery, and uveitis at the University of California, San Francisco. As chief of infection control for the Wilmer Eye Institute, Dr. Kuo worked with the occupational health, virology and hospital epidemiology and infection control departments to develop a policy to quickly diagnose employees who have a highly contagious and damaging form of viral conjunctivitis (""pink eye"") so they can be sent home and not infect patients and other employees.". Dr. Kuo is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Meibomianitis. Her top areas of expertise are Dry Eye Syndrome, Cataract, Glaucoma, and Ocular Hypertension (OHT).

Michael Sulewski, M.D., is the James and Heather Gills Rising Professor of Ophthalmology and a cornea and cataract specialist at the Wilmer Eye Institute’s Baltimore locations at Bayview Medical Center and the Patient Access Center for the Eye at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, as well as in White Marsh, Maryland. Dr. Sulewski is also the ophthalmology residency program director. Dr. Sulewski specializes in cataract surgery, intraocular lens complications, corneal transplantation, keratoprosthesis, refractive surgery and other medical and surgical diseases of the cornea and anterior segment of the eye. Dr. Sulewski is also a resident supervisor at the Wilmer Eye Institute Patient Center for the Eye at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. Recent News Articles and Media Coverage Five Questions for Michael Sulewski, Johns Hopkins Medicine (Dec. 2020). Dr. Sulewski is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Meibomianitis. His top areas of expertise are Cataract, Acute Posterior Multifocal Placoid Pigment Epitheliopathy (APMPPE), Cogan's Syndrome, Interstitial Keratitis, and Cataract Removal.

Usiwoma Abugo is an Ophthalmologist in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Abugo is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Meibomianitis. Her top areas of expertise are Chalazion, Eyelid Bump, Meibomianitis, and Entropion. Dr. Abugo is currently accepting new patients.

Emily Li, M.D., is an oculoplastic and reconstructive surgeon at the Wilmer Eye Institute’s locations in Water’s Edge, White Marsh and Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Li specializes in functional and cosmetic surgeries of the eyelids, forehead and face. She also performs surgeries of the tear drainage system, surgeries in the eye socket and endoscopic procedures. She has experience treating patients of all ages, ranging from children to adult patients having oculoplastic surgery. After earning undergraduate and medical degrees from the eight-year combined baccalaureate-medical Program in Liberal Medical Education (PLME) at Brown University, Dr. Li completed ophthalmology residency training at Yale University. She subsequently underwent subspecialty training by completing the American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (ASOPRS) fellowship at the University of Washington. Dr. Li is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Meibomianitis. Her top areas of expertise are Ptosis, Eyelid Drooping, Entropion, and Ectropion.

Ashley Behrens, M.D., is the Edward St. John Professor in Ophthalmology and chief of the comprehensive ophthalmology division at the Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins Medicine. He specializes in the medical and surgical management of cataracts and corneal diseases, including corneal transplantation techniques for Fuchs’ dystrophy and keratoconus, as well as LASIK, PRK and refractive lens exchange. Dr. Behrens received his medical degree from the Universidad Central de Venezuela in Caracas, and completed his ophthalmology residency and fellowship training at the Francisco Risquez Hospital. He completed additional fellowships at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany, where he obtained his German Doctorate with Magna Cum Laude Distinction, and then at the University of Southern California and the University of California, Irvine. Dr. Behrens joined the Wilmer faculty in 2003, and served as executive medical director at the King Khaled Eye Specialist Hospital (KKESH), Wilmer’s affiliate hospital in Saudi Arabia, from July 2010 through August 2014. Dr. Behrens is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Meibomianitis. His top areas of expertise are Interstitial Keratitis, Cataract, Optic Nerve Atrophy, Vitrectomy, and Cataract Removal.

Samuel C. Yiu, M.D., Ph.D., is an associate professor of ophthalmology at the Wilmer Eye Institute, specializing in cornea and external eye diseases, cataracts and refractive surgery (LASIK). In addition, he is a nationally and internationally recognized specialist in ocular surface diseases and ocular surface reconstruction surgery. Dr. Yiu received his M.Sc. (applied biometry) and Ph.D. (physiology and biophysics) from the University of Southern California. He then completed a post-doctoral fellowship in lacrimal physiology at the Schepens Eye Institute at Harvard Medical School and went on to earn his M.D. from the University of Alberta in Canada. Dr. Yiu completed an internship and his ophthalmology residency at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia and a fellowship in cornea, external disease and refractive surgery at the University of Southern California’s Doheny Eye Institute. After serving as the director of Doheny’s Ocular Surface Center and co-director of Doheny’s cornea division, Dr. Yiu joined the Wilmer faculty in 2011 and spent two years as the chief of the cornea division at King Khaled Eye Specialist Hospital (KKESH), Wilmer’s affiliate hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, before returning to Baltimore in 2013. Dr. Yiu is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Meibomianitis. His top areas of expertise are Cataract, Interstitial Keratitis, Dry Eye Syndrome, and Cloudy Cornea.

Michael Grodin is an Ophthalmologist in Lutherville, Maryland. Dr. Grodin is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Meibomianitis. His top areas of expertise are Late-Onset Retinal Degeneration, Age-Related Macular Degeneration (ARMD), Diabetic Retinopathy, and Retinal Artery Occlusion. Dr. Grodin is currently accepting new patients.

Lisa Abrams is an Ophthalmologist in Lutherville, Maryland. Dr. Abrams is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Meibomianitis. Her top areas of expertise are Meibomianitis, Subconjunctival Hemorrhage, and Glaucoma. Dr. Abrams is currently accepting new patients.

Darab Hormozi is an Ophthalmologist in Towson, Maryland. Dr. Hormozi is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Meibomianitis. His top areas of expertise are Benign Essential Blepharospasm, Chalazion, Eyelid Bump, and Entropion.

Xu He is an Ophthalmologist in Timonium, Maryland. Dr. He is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Meibomianitis. Her top areas of expertise are Keratoconus, Chalazion, Eyelid Bump, Papilledema, and Cataract Removal. Dr. He is currently accepting new patients.

Lazaros Volikas is an Ophthalmologist in Timonium, Maryland. Dr. Volikas is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Meibomianitis. His top areas of expertise are Glaucoma, Chalazion, Eyelid Bump, and Cataract.