A Tribute To Carl D. Regillo, MD, FASRS
Honoring Carl D. Regillo, MD, FASRS
Dr. Carl Regillo was a Phi Kappa Phi graduate of Northeastern University, College of Pharmacy, where he was the class Valedictorian. He received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School on a full military scholarship. He performed his internship in internal medicine at Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, and both his ophthalmology residency and vitreoretinal fellowship at Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia. He was appointed the Co-Chief Resident and awarded a Heed Ophthalmic Fellowship during his postgraduate training.
After training, he was commissioned a Major in the United States Air Force and stationed four years as a vitreoretinal surgeon at the San Diego Naval Medical Center. There he was Co-Director of the Ophthalmology Department’s Retina Service, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of California, San Diego, and recipient of a Naval Commendation medal and the Ophthalmology Department’s annual teaching award. In 1998, he returned to Philadelphia to join Mid Atlantic Retina and the Retina Service of Wills Eye Hospital.
Dr. Regillo is currently the Director of the Retina Service of Wills Eye Hospital, Professor of Ophthalmology at Thomas Jefferson University School of Medicine, and Principal Investigator of numerous major international clinical trials investigating new forms of treatment for macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, and a variety of other retinal conditions. He is the founder and former Director of the Wills Eye Clinical Retina Research Unit, prior Chairman of the Wills Eye Institutional Review Board and prior Chairman of the American Academy’s Basic and Clinical Science Course (BCSC) Retina Section committee. He is the former Wills Retina Fellowship Program Director.
Dr. Regillo has authored over 300 scientific papers, lectured nationally and abroad, and has published 9 major textbooks in the field. He has served on the scientific editorial board for the American Journal of Ophthalmology, Review of Ophthalmology, Current Opinion in Ophthalmology, Yearbook of Ophthalmology, Retinal Physician, and Retina Today. He is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and an active member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, The Retina Society, The Macula Society, and The American Society of Retina Specialists. He is a former examiner for the American Board of Ophthalmology and a recipient of the American Academy of Ophthalmology Achievement, Senior Achievement, Secretariat, and Lifetime Achievement Awards along with the America Society of Retina Specialists Honor, Senior Honor, Presidential and Founders Awards. In 2018, he received the Wills Eye Silver Tray Award, the Hospital’s highest honor. He was named one of the “150 Top Innovators in Retina” by Ocular Surgery News, selected a Charter Inductee of the Retina Hall of Fame in 2017, and on the Ophthalmology Power List of the top 100 most influential people in the world of ophthalmology. He has been listed annually for over 2 decades as a retina “Top Doctor” in the Philadelphia Magazine, Philadelphia Life, Mainline Today and South Jersey Magazine. He was named among the top 150 ophthalmologists in the US by Newsweek.
Outside of patient care, research and teaching, Dr. Regillo enjoys spending time with his wife, Teresa, of 36 years. They have two adult children who are the joys of their lives. Dr. Regillo and Teresa love sports, food, wine and travel and ideally combining all wherever they are around the world.
Tributes from Colleagues
“Carl Regillo embodies the kind of physician and surgeon that I strive to embody. His unwavering curiosity, intellect, integrity, and drive to iterate and evolve our field has made him one of the most impactful mentors of my career. Although I am nearly a decade out of fellowship training, he continues to guide and inspire my own work. The contributions he has made to improving our treatment and understanding of retinal disease are truly staggering, profoundly impacting the way we practice in the clinic and operating room. On top of everything, Carl is an impressive athlete and he is hard to keep up with on the bike and the slopes! There have been and will be few like Dr. Regillo—and fewer still whose influence will so enduringly shape both our field and the people within it.”
~Murtaza K. Adam, MD, FASRS~
“Carl Regillo typifies excellence in teaching, clinical care, and research. I was fortunate to begin my fellowship at Wills when Carl was a new attending, and I was a new fellow. Despite his many responsibilities, Carl always made time for his fellows. He was instrumental in shaping my career, emphasizing commitment to patient-centered care and meaningful research, even in the face of obstacles. Wills is blessed with incredible mentors and teachers, but Carl has set the standard for placing trainees on the path to success. Carl stays behind so others can move forward. That sentiment says it all—he treats everyone with kindness and compassion and elevates those around him. Carll leads by example and manages with purpose. I have been blessed to learn from him and continue to learn from him. It has been a true privilege to form a personal and professional relationship. There is only one Carl Regillo, and he deserves to be honored for his mentorship.”
~Guarav K. Shah, MD, FASRS~
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