Primary Job Title Scientific Advisory Board Primary Organization 
Ivantis
Location California, United States, North America Regions West Coast, Western US Gender Male
Dr. Reay H. Brown is a board certified ophthalmologist specializing in glaucoma, glaucoma surgery, and cataract surgery with intraocular lens implantation. He has been in practice in Atlanta since 1988.
Dr. Brown earned his undergraduate degree from Harvard College Cum Laude and completed medical school at the University of Michigan. His
training in ophthalmology was at the Wilmer Eye Institute of Johns Hopkins University. He then completed a glaucoma fellowship at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute and returned to Johns Hopkins as Chief Resident and a member of the Hopkins faculty.
Dr. Brown was selected as the first Pamela Firman Professor of Ophthalmology at the Emory Eye Center. Mrs. Firman made the donation for the professorship in gratitude for Dr. Brown's care of her eyes. He served as the Director of the Glaucoma Service at Emory for eleven years prior to entering private practice with Atlanta Ophthalmology Associates in 1999.
Dr. Brown has published more than 80 peer-reviewed articles on glaucoma, cataract surgery, and other aspects of eye care and is often asked to lecture on glaucoma at national and international meetings. He has received the Honor Award and the Senior Achievement Award from the American Academy of Ophthalmology. Dr. Brown is one of only a few ophthalmologists in Georgia who have received this prestigious award. Dr. Brown has been awarded 15 patents for new instruments to improve glaucoma and cataract surgery and has other patents pending. He continues to work on novel and improved approaches to glaucoma and cataract surgery.
Dr. Brown has been selected by his peers to be listed each year in Best Doctors in America and was featured in a separate peer survey in Atlanta Magazine as one of the best ophthalmologists in Atlanta. Numerous media outlets, both local and national, have called attention to Dr. Brown's contributions to cutting edge treatments in eye surgery.
