Dr. Carl S. Wilkins, MD

Carl S. Wilkins, MD, is a vitreoretinal surgeon and specialist in ocular inflammatory disease. Dr. Wilkins received his bachelor’s degree in neuroscience from Vanderbilt University, and subsequently returned to his native Florida for medical school at FIU Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine in Miami. He completed his surgical internship and ophthalmology residency at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and stayed in New York for a vitreoretinal surgery fellowship at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai.  He then completed a fellowship in ocular immunology and uveitis at the Wilmer Eye Institute of Johns Hopkins Hospital. He was an assistant professor at New York Eye and Ear Infirmary and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai before joining MERSI in August 2025.