Rabia Karani, MD

Biography

Dr. Rabia Karani is an assistant Professor in the Ruiz Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science at McGovern Medical School. She specializes in the medical and surgical treatment of vitreoretinal disease.

Dr. Karani received her medical degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where she also completed a Master of Public Health with concentrations in epidemiology and biostatistics from the Bloomberg School of Public Health. She performed her ophthalmology residency at Columbia University Irving Medical Center Edward S. Harkness Eye Institute, and then returned to Johns Hopkins for a vitreoretinal surgery fellowship at the Wilmer Eye Institute. During her training she received various merit-based grants and fellowships, including an NIH TL1 award.

Her research and academic interests focus on public health, anthropology, diabetic retinopathy, and medical writing. She has participated in several global health projects and published articles on community health patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic. She has also written for publications including Retina Today, KevinMD, Biomedical Odyssey, and Glaucoma Today, and was selected as a Doximity Op-Med fellow for 2 years.

Her clinical interests include diabetic retinopathy, macular degeneration, epiretinal membrane/macular pucker, retinal detachment, retinal vein and arterial occlusion, myopia, among other retinal clinical and surgical diseases.