Miriam E. Ridley, MD

Education: Dr. Ridley completed her undergraduate B.Sc. degree at the University of Toronto. She received her M.D. degree from the University of Western Ontario, where she won awards in Biochemistry and Pharmacology. She was elected into the Alpha Omega Alpha medical honor society. She interned at the University of Toronto, and studied an additional year of internal medicine, before beginning her residency training in Ophthalmology.

Following her residency, she was awarded a Baker Foundation scholarship to study retina and vitreous disease at Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She completed two years of medical and surgical retina-vitreous training in Philadelphia in 1982.

She returned to the University of Toronto to set up the vitreous surgical service at Toronto General Hospital. In 1987, she moved to Charlotte, and has been in private practice since then. Dr. Ridley has authored publications on Coats' Disease, Sickle Cell Retinopathy, Von Hipple-Lindau's disease, Diabetes, Ocular Lymphoma, and retinal surgical pathology.

Special Interests: Dr. Ridley specializes in medical and surgical diseases of the retina and vitreous. These include: diabetic retinopathy, retinal detachments, tumors, vascular abnormalities, and macular diseases such as macular degeneration, macular holes and macular pucker.

Personal Background: Dr. Ridley and her husband Rick divide their free time between Charlotte and Bethesda MD, where he (Dr. Ferris) is a clinical director of the National Eye Institute. They both love to cook, golf, ski, and garden.

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