Robert Morris, MD

A Board Certified Ophthalmologist, Dr. Morris regularly contributes to national and international journals and conferences of vitreoretinal surgeons and other ophthalmologists.  His advanced training and surgical skills are particularly recognized in the treatment of severe eye injuries and surgery of the macula (the center of vision).  As an indication of the regard Dr. Morris and his associate Dr. Witherspoon are held by their peers, each of them are listed in Best Doctors of America.

In 2003 Dr. Morris was appointed Chief of Staff for the Callahan Eye Foundation Hospital, a University of Alabama Health System hospital. He also serves as an Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at UAB and is the President of the Helen Keller Foundation for Research and Education. In 2000 Dr, Morris began his term as president of the International Society of Ocular Trauma.

For over twenty years with over two hundred publications and presentations, plus training of other vitreoretinal physicians, Dr. Morris has continued to make a significant impact within the medical community. He holds seven patents related to eye care. He is cofounder of the Retina Research Foundation of Alabama, The Eye Injury Registry of Alabama and the United States Eye Injury Registry and most recently the World Eye Injury Registry. Dr. Morris serves on numerous medical advisory boards.  In 1995, Dr. Morris received the Migel medal from the American Foundation for the Blind for greatest voluntary contribution by an individual to the field of blindness.  He is currently President of the International Society of Ocular Trauma. 

Dr. Morris graduated from Purdue University and later received his medical degree from the University of Alabama School of Medicine. An outstanding Air Force officer and pilot during his military service, Dr. Morris went on to complete a Residency at The Eye Foundation Hospital/University of Alabama in Birmingham (UAB).  He later completed retina Fellowships training in ocular trauma surgery at the University of Cologne, West Germany and trained with Dr. Robert Machemer, the inventor of vitrectomy, at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in Miami, Florida.

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