Eric Singman

Eric Lowell Singman, M.D., Ph.D. is professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine’s
Departments of Ophthalmology/Visual Sciences and Neurology. This includes running a weekly
neuro-ophthalmology clinic as an attending at the Baltimore Veterans Administration Hospital.
• A board-certified ophthalmologist, he has subspecialty fellowship training in neuroophthalmology and certification in the management of Low Vision.
• 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.
• Before joining U Md, he was associate professor of ophthalmology at the Wilmer Eye Institute at
The Johns Hopkins Hospital and division chief at the Patient Access for Care of the Eye clinic, the
clinic where ophthalmology residents provide supervised outpatient eye care. He founded and
directed the Wilmer Clinic for Vision Concerns after Traumatic Brain Injury at Johns Hopkins. He
also co-founded the Wilmer Genetic Eye Disease Center. He also served as the Medical Director
for Clinical Operations for the Office of Johns Hopkins Physicians.
• 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. His clinical expertise includes diagnosis of
visual dysfunction after brain injury, as well as the impact of Ehlers-Danlos syndromes (EDS) on
vision. He helped create the recent US Social Security Administration (SSA) Guidelines for
Heritable Disorders of Connective Tissue and Disability and consulted to SSA regarding updating
visual evaluations related to disability and impairment. He also helped update the SSA
Guidelines for Visual Field Testing. He recently served for a year as a subject matter expert for
the DoD TBI Center of Excellence, and contributed to online media they produced for public
distribution.
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• His research interests have focused on automation of the eye examination, using big data to
explore the impact of brain injury on vision, optimizing outpatient clinic services and the visual
sequelae of hypermobile EDS.
• Dr. Singman served on the Medical Advisory Panel of BravoVictor (the blind veterans’
foundation for both the United Kingdom and United States) from 2022-2024. He also consults as
a district medical adviser for US Department of Labor Federal Occupational Health and
consulted to the U.S. Marshall Service, particularly in the area of evaluating visual system
disability claim reports for federal employees with work-related injuries. He is also an
independent clinical reviewer for Lincoln Financial Group Disability and has served on the
medical advisory boards of medical device companies including Baxter Healthcare, Luminopia,
Computer Technology Associates/Vivace Healthcare Solutions, and Eye-Guide.
• Dr. Singman was invited to be a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine of the United Kingdom,
and is a member of the North American Neuro-ophthalmology Society, the American Academy
of Ophthalmology and the American Military Surgeons of the United States.