Get to know Ophthalmologist Dr. Benjamin Bakall, who serves patients in Phoenix, Arizona.

Dr. Bakall joined Associated Retina Consultants in 2013 as a medical retina and inherited retinal dystrophy specialist. He is the Director of the Inherited Retinal Disease and Visual Function Clinic at the Phoenix office, and a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix. Dr. Bakall graduated with his medical degree from Uppsala University Faculty of Medicine in 2003. He then earned his PhD degree at Uppsala University in 2005, and his postdoctoral research at the University of Arizona in 2007. He performed his internship in general surgery and his residency in ophthalmology at the University of Arizona in 2008 and 2011, respectively. This was followed by a two-year fellowship in medical retina at the University of Iowa in 2013. The doctor is board-certified in ophthalmology by the American Board of Ophthalmology (ABO). A member of the Arizona Ophthalmological Society and the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Dr. Bakall has been the Medical Chair for Vision Walk Arizona-Foundation for Fighting Blindness for several years. He is also a member of the Quality Committee for Innovation Care Partners affiliated with HonorHealth.