Richard

Semba

,

MD

Dr. Semba is the inaugural W. Richard Green Professor of Ophthalmology at the Wilmer Eye Institute. He holds joint appointments in the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology and the Department of International Health. Dr. Semba received his B.S. from Yale University (1978), M.A. and M.D. from Stanford University (1983), and M.P.H. from Johns Hopkins University (1991). He completed his ophthalmology residency at the Wilmer Eye Institute. Dr. Semba has been a faculty member at Johns Hopkins University since 1987. 

Dr. Semba’s areas of research include the characterization of emerging biomarkers for adverse aging-related outcomes and the application of proteomics and mass spectrometry to the understanding of chronic diseases.

Dr. Semba has over three hundred peer-reviewed scientific publications. He is the author of three books: “Handbook of Nutrition and Ophthalmology” (Humana Press, 2007), "The Vitamin A Story: Lifting the Shadow of Death" (Karger, 2012), and (with co-author Kristine Smets) "A Perfect Vision: Catalogue of the William Holland Wilmer Rare Book Collection" (Johns Hopkins, 2013). Dr. Semba is co-editor (with Martin Bloem) of the widely used textbook “Nutrition and Health in Developing Countries” (Humana Press, first edition, 2001; second edition, 2008).