Eric Souied MD, PhD, is the Head of the Ophthalmology Department at the Intercommunal Hospital of Créteil and Henri Mondor Hospital. He is also Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Paris-Est Creteil. His main areas of expertise are medical retina, including AMD, inherited macular and retinal dystrophies, as well as retinal and cataract surgery. He is recognized as the leading international expert in the field of exudative AMD.
Professor Souied completed his medical doctorate in 1996 at the University of Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC), and his clinical fellowship in ophthalmology in 2000. He pursued a post-doctoral fellowship at the Jules Stein Eye Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) from 2000 to 2002.
Professor Souied has contributed to more than 600 scientific publications in the field of AMD, hereditary retinal diseases, and multimodal imaging. In 1998, he identified the first genetic polymorphism associated with AMD. He is a member of the Macula Society, Jules Gonin Club, Donald Gass Club, IntRIS, AAO, ARVO, EURETINA, and the National Academy of Surgery. He received the 2017 Macula Society Award.