Dr. Richard Hamilton was born in Omaha, Nebraska and raised in Illinois. He joined the Center for Retina and Macular Disease in 2006.

Dr. Hamilton was educated at Harvard University. He received his bachelor’s degree in chemistry magna cum laude at Harvard College and his medical degree at Harvard Medical School. While at Harvard he studied a diabetic model of cataract development sponsored by a National Science Research Award.

Dr. Hamilton’s training has been extensive in scope. He completed a fellowship in anatomic and clinical pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital where he performed solo autopsies, processed surgical specimens from all of the major organ systems and was involved all major divisions of clinical pathology. After completing medical school, he initially chose to follow in his fathers footsteps in vascular surgery. He embarked upon general surgical residency at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center before realizing his true calling was in Ophthalmology, an interest he had developed in medical school.

Dr. Hamilton subsequently completed his residency in Ophthalmology at the Doheny Eye Institute 2003 and his fellowship in Retinal and Vitreous Diseases at the Medical College of Wisconsin in 2006.

He has been intricately involved in resident teaching and speaking to local Ophthalmology groups. He has published 5 abstracts and 2 book chapters while in training and has participated numerous other research projects. He has lectured at the American Academy of Ophthalmology.

He is currently a member of The American Academy of Ophthalmology, the Vitreous Society, the Florida Society of Ophthalmology, the American Medical Association, the Florida Medical Association and the Polk County Medical Society.

His research interests include surgical instrumentation, ophthalmic anesthesia and clinical trials of new pharmacologic compounds in retinal and macular disease.

His hobbies include sports, book collecting, physical fitness and travel.