J. Fernando Arevalo, MD FACS

J. Fernando Arevalo, a holder of M.D. and FACS degrees, completed his medical and ophthalmology training in Caracas, Venezuela, his native country, before traveling to Bogota, Colombia for a two-year Retina and Vitreous fellowship at the Barraquer Institute and the Fundacion Oftalmogica Nacional (University of El Rosario) in 1992-1993. After this intensive training, he traveled to the USA for a 2-year Retina and Vitreous/Uveitis and Intraocular Inflammation fellowship at the University of California, San Diego from 1993-1995 under the mentoring of Dr. William Freeman. The following year, Dr. Arevalo went to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for his Ocular Oncology fellowship at Wills Eye Hospital under the mentoring of Drs. Jerry and Carol Shields. Dr. Arevalo returned to Venezuela (1996), where he was appointed to the rank of Chairman of Ophthalmology at the Clinica Oftalmologica Centro Caracas in Caracas, Venezuela, and Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Los Andes, Merida, Venezuela. Dr. Arevalo has become recognized as one of the leading ophthalmologists in South America and in 2001 founded the Arevalo-Coutinho Foundation for Research in Ophthalmology. In 2011, Dr. Arevalo was invited by Johns Hopkins University (JHU) in Baltimore to work as a Professor of Ophthalmology and the Chief of the Retina Division of the King Khaled Eye Hospital (KKESH) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia for a four-year tenure (July 2011-15), followed by an appointment at the Wilmer Eye Institute as the Edmund F. and Virginia B. Ball Professor of Ophthalmology in the Retina Division, and an appointment as chief of ophthalmology at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in 2015. As a clinical scientist, Dr. Arevalo has more than 800 scientific publications (more than 220 on MEDLINE), 11 books, more than 700 scientific paper presentations, and more than 1000 invited lecture presentations in North-America, South-America, Central-America, Europe, Africa, and Asia.

Diagnostic imaging/procedures

Minimally Invasive Procedures

• laser surgery
• minimally invasive surgery

Ophthalmology Cancer/Tumors

• ocular malignancies
• retinoblastoma

Retinal Disorders/Procedures

• macular degeneration
• macular edema
• macular telangiectasia
• retinal and vitreous surgery
• retinal detachment
• retinal disease
• retinal occlusions

Johns Hopkins Hospital

Baltimore, MD

Attending

09/2015—Present

Bayview Medical Center

Baltimore, MD

Attending

09/2015—Present

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Baltimore, MD

Professor

07/2011—Present