Elias Traboulsi

Early life

Elias Traboulsi was born May 19, 1957 in Beirut, Lebanon, to Iskandar and Renée Traboulsi. Dr. Traboulsi earned a bachelor's degree in Science in 1977 and a Doctorate in Medicine in 1982 at the American University of Beirut.

Professional career

Traboulsi completed a residency in Ophthalmology at the American University of Beirut Medical Center in 1985. He then moved to the United States, to complete a fellowship in Ophthalmic Genetics at the Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute of Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland. Traboulsi continued his training with a residency in Ophthalmology at Georgetown University Medical Center and a fellowship in Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus at Children's National Medical Center, both in Washington, DC.

Positions

Following a year as Chief Resident in Ophthalmology at Georgetown University Medical Center, Traboulsi joined the faculty at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he served as Associate Professor of Ophthalmology from 1990-1997. He additionally was named as Chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center 1995-1997.

In 1997, Traboulsi left Johns Hopkins to join the faculty at, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, as Head of the Department of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus and Director of the Center for Genetic Eye Diseases, where he has worked since. He was Director of the Cole Eye Institute fellowship program in Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus 1997-2009, and has been the Cole Eye Institute Residency Program Director since 2001. He was appointed Director of the Graduate Medical Education and Vice-Chairman of the Cleveland Clinic Education Institute in 2005.

Traboulsi has also been a Professor of Ophthalmology at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University since 2006.

Additional positions include:

Awards

His honors include:

Scientific contributions and professional legacy

Traboulsi has authored the books Genetic Diseases of the Eye (Oxford Press, First Ed. 1999) and A Compendium of Inherited Disorders and the Eye (Oxford Press, 2005). He has worked as principal investigator on a number of studies focused on determination and description of the molecular genetics and clinical manifestations of ocular disorders.