Eric Singman

MD, PhD

Dr. Eric Singman is professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine's Departments of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences and also Neurology. A board-certified ophthalmologist, he has subspecialty fellowship training in neuro-ophthalmology. After his fellowship, Dr. Singman practiced neuro-ophthalmology for 14 years in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and was an attending neuro-ophthalmologist at the Lancaster Rehabilitation Hospital, as well as at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore's Comprehensive Concussion Clinic. Previously, he was associate professor of ophthalmology at the Wilmer Eye Institute at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and division chief at the Patient Access Center for the Eye. He founded and directed the Wilmer Clinic for Vision Concerns after Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) at Johns Hopkins. He also co-founded the Wilmer Genetic Eye Disease Center. Dr. Singman has served as a subject matter expert on brain injury at the Department of Defense (DoD) Vision Center of Excellence on multiple occasions and has chaired grant review committees for the DoD Vision Research Program for those studies related to TBI. His clinical expertise includes diagnosis of visual dysfunction after brain injury, as well as the impact of Ehlers-Danlos syndromes (EDS) on vision. His research interests have focused on automation of the eye examination, using big data to explore the impact of brain injury on vision and the visual sequelae of hypermobile EDS. Dr. Singman also serves as a district medical adviser for Federal Occupational Health as well as the U.S. Marshall Service, particularly in the area of evaluating visual system disability claim reports for federal employees with work-related injuries.