Douglas M. Wisner, MD

Dr. Douglas M. Wisner was born in Maryland and attended Elizabethtown College in central Pennsylvania, where he studied physics with minors in chemistry and biology, and graduated with honors. He then attended Penn State College of Medicine in Hershey, Pennsylvania where he was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha. His internship was served at Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia and he completed his residency in ophthalmology at Wills Eye Hospital. Dr. Wisner was chief resident during his final year at Wills.

Dr. Wisner has maintained a busy cataract surgery practice at the Plymouth Meeting office since he joined in 2012.  His philosophy of practice emphasizes patient centered care to improve quality of life through the restoration and improvement of vision.  His surgical interests include cataract surgery, minimally invasive glaucoma surgery (MIGS), and anterior segment surgery. He has a particular interest in advanced technology intraocular lenses and complex anterior segment surgery including cataract surgery after LASIK, retinal detachment or trauma, cataract surgery in special needs patients, scleral fixated intraocular lens implants, and iris repairs.

He served as the Director of the Cataract and Primary Eye Care Service at Wills Eye Hospital (2019-2026).  He developed and directed the Measey Ophthalmic Surgical Training (MOST) Lab at Wills Eye until 2022, instructing young surgeons in the art and science of ocular microsurgery. He serves on various additional committees at Wills Hospital. He is an assistant professor and volunteer hospital staff member at Thomas Jefferson University. Dr. Wisner is a board-certified ophthalmologist, a member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons, and the American Medical Association.  He has authored or co-authored numerous grants, papers and textbook chapters and has been an invited lecturer at local, regional and national events. His primary area of research interest is surgical training and technique/systems improvement.

He is involved in international ophthalmology and has made mission trips to Ecuador, Kenya and Ghana. He is on the advisory board for Wills Eye Academic Global Ophthalmology, which sends physicians in training abroad to train local eye surgeons, develop a love for service, learn new techniques, and facilitate collaborative research.

Outside of his life as an eye surgeon, Dr. Wisner enjoys spending time with his wife and sons.  He loves nature, fixing broken things, and a little bit of quiet when he can get it.